Cultural Trends: Alan Andrews, Director – U.S. Navigators, pointed out in a recent message on the state of American culture 4 cultural trends that the Church must face when sharing the Gospel: •Globalization; an essentially secular trend that promises materialism, affluence and pleasure through a singular global culture. •Urbanization; more than 50% of the world’s population and over 80% of the United States’ population is considered urban. •Pluralism; tolerance and philosophical pluralism or post-modernity, the “culture of the least common denominator.” •Tribalism; what he calls “a strong negative and sometimes violent reaction to modernity and its bi-products of globalization, urbanization and pluralism.” (Mission America Coalition Update 11/04)
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