In some ways it seems to me that preaching remains too captive to 1950 to transform the third millennium. I travel widely and hear a lot of sermons. Many of them sound to me like some I heard (and some I may have preached) during the 1950s. Could it be that during the past five decades the world was learning to listen in a new way, while preachers continued talking in the old way? Anthropologists and historians have come together on the point that world cultures