"Utterly Routine"

Contemporary churches lag behind. I guess that's my mantra. Gail found an interesting article about culture in the Sunday, July 17, 2005 edition of the Star Telegram. In the Weekly Review section the article entitled, "Harry Potter and the Changing Times," was written by Joel Garreau of The Washington Post.

In the article Garreau reflects on the experience of his 15-year-old daughter who has been growing up in the 1990s. He writes,

For her, the 1990s meant accepting the most magical change as utterly routine.

About half way through the article he comments,

The relationship between who learns and who teaches, which has been stable for millennia, has bee upturned.

Then he quotes anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson,

Today you're finding 12-year-olds teaching their grandmothers how to use computers so they can exchange e-mails.

The Contemporary Church lags behind.

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.
- Bob Dylan, 1964