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Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

The United States is currently undergoing the most rapid demographic shift in its history. By 2050, white Americans will no longer comprise a majority of the population. Instead, they’ll be the largest minority group in a country made up entirely of minorities, followed by Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans. Past shifts in America’s demographics always reshaped the...

engaged in an irrelevant or a dysfunctional way with the surrounding culture. Henri Nouwen presents another imagery of a church in a dysfunctional relationship with the culture. For a time, Nouwen served as a chaplain of a Holland-America cruise line. One foggy night, while Nouwen was standing on the front deck, the captain of the cruise ship bumped into him. The captain told the chaplain to “get out of my way.” But on second thought he stated, “This might be the one time I actually
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