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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...

finished or virtually finished animal, was ingredient, and centrally ingredient, in the production of that animal itself.… We are, in sum, incomplete or unfinished animals who complete or finish ourselves through culture.”29 Geertz’s main point is that culture operates on two levels (the individual and the corporate) and also has the capacity to have an ongoing and continuing impact on the individual. The social construct of culture must be considered when we strive after cultural intelligence. When
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