This Flat Planet

Dr. Larry Taylor has an interesting essay on his blog called Going Glocal. It's a piece about how the collision of tech and immigration have brought cross-cultural ministry into our neighborhoods and even our living rooms.

Now as we soon will enter the second decade of the 21st century, we are learning that ours is a global village. Switchfoot, which is both popular and made up of Christians, pledges “allegiance to a nation without borders”, without politicians, without ethnic division. We daily text-message people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, e-mails fly around the world at the speed of light, people join blogs and discuss everything imaginable, friendships are formed over MySpace, and mates found on eHarmony. Immigration has brought the world to us. All of our major cities worldwide are multiethnic, multicultural, and multireligious. Business, education, communication, and travel have made the world a single village and humankind a single family. Patriotism and nationalism are fading, and missiologists understand that there is no longer any such thing as “foreign missions”. All of our mission, whether in Detroit, rural Vermont, southern California, Beirut, or Kenya is cross-cultural.(link)

HT: Larry Taylor