Threshold Editions, the imprint publishing "Dangerous," was founded, in 2006, with a politically conservative mission.
During the battles between fundamentalists and liberal-minded modernists in the early 20th century, however, conservative mission boards cracked down on the freedom of female missionaries.
It has a morally conservative mission which would be best expressed as "pas devant les enfants", except speaking French is probably also evidence of moral turpitude.
That, never forget, is any rightwing grouping's conservative mission, which will offer a blindingly simple explanation for the larger part of its behaviour.
"The conservative mission, sometimes explicitly stated as such, is to return us to that point in history where everything is imagined to have been just fine and dandy … a cocktail of the 1950s, Upstairs Downstairs and Downton Abbey, where plainly everyone did know their station".
He went to a conservative mission school".
Yet they didn't miss a beat, and still issued a fighting challenge to the GOP, not to sway from its hard-core conservative mission.
The Conservatives' mission to "castrate the Labour party" by removing Ed Balls from his Morley and Outwood seat failed in 2010, with Balls hanging on to his seat with a margin of just over 1,000 votes.
And while the yellow bellies in the other parties shied away from getting involved in taking out a group of well-organized radicals who've engaged in outright genocide, the Conservatives' military mission appears to have the backing of most of the country.
"The conservative movement's mission has become providing comfortable professional livelihoods to literally hundreds of people," David Frum told me recently.
