Tag Archives: identity

03 Jun, 2007

Cultural Isolation and the Church

America was never a cultural ‘melting pot’–that has been established. What is interesting is the the lack of mixing among Christians. It’s actually harder to be a congregation of diverse cultures than it is to be a congregation of just one culture.
It doesn’t mean that the different cultures are unable to get along. But then [...]

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25 Apr, 2007

Imagined Communities

A book entitled “Imagined Communities” by Benedict Anderson describes the idea that typical human communities are really only imagined ‘entities’ in which people “will never know most of their fellow-members, meet them or ever hear of them, yet in the mind of each lives the image of their communion.”
We can be thankful that as the [...]

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