This interdisciplinary course will look at two terms that are very important to contemporary experience but that often create cross-cultural confusion. Moving beyond thinking of "mission" just as service and/or evangelism and "development" in a materialist, industrial sense, we will attempt to create new awareness suitable for an era of climate change, economic inequity, and resource wars. Guiding our analysis will be information from worldviews that do not see things as split into sacred and secular realms. Self-reflection will go into the historically dominant role of the United States and American Christianity in forming current policies and practices and we will consider what alternative views might mean for the world's future.