This month, Cleveland had a job fair downtown for 400 jobs (only). 7,000 people showed up. Unemployment is hitting those that you wouldn't even "expect."
The mainstream, white American evangelical church (and to a degree, ethnic churches that have been influenced by white American evangelicals) is totally embedded in American cultural captivity - individualism, materialism, and racism/America's way is the only way. I'm really tired of people playing the "Gospel police" when the Gospel as we understand it in America has so many cultural trappings. Lord, have mercy!
You and/or your region are way more intellectual than me and/or my region. Southeast is definitely a particularly different cultural context, and I know there are some very intentional desires to meet southern students where they are. For example, a lot of the stuff I see from videos/posts from other areas of IV doesn't seem like it would be appropriate in the southern cultural context. At the same time, I don't feel like I could hang in regularly everyday conversation with staff from your region. Interesting.. a little scary. I guess inspiring to surround myself more with Christian intellectual discourse..
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You and/or your region are way more intellectual than me and/or my region. Southeast is definitely a particularly different cultural context, and I know there are some very intentional desires to meet southern students where they are. For example, a lot of the stuff I see from videos/posts from other areas of IV doesn't seem like it would be appropriate in the southern cultural context. At the same time, I don't feel like I could hang in regularly everyday conversation with staff from your region. Interesting.. a little scary. I guess inspiring to surround myself more with Christian intellectual discourse..