... world leader in missions. The Church Is Now Global Just 30 years ago the world-wide evangelical church was predominately "white, rich and West."" Its center of gravity was in the developed North Atlantic countries which we have come to call the " first world."" But as we enter the 21st century ... now composed of peoples who are predominately "of color, poor and South."" What's more, the global church today has no center of gravity at all. Rather than one major center of influence, the church has become polycentric and largely non-western. The majority of its members are found in those un...

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... physics or the chaos theory."13 The possibility of life existing on other worlds has been the subject of speculation for years.14 In May, 1988, NASA began using a "super computer" that is intended to pick up signals from any distant civilizations.15 Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, has launched many projects over the years, but has yielded nothing so ... their belief system. "Whether something's really there or not may be irrelevant,"17 because many Americans tend to fall back on faith. "[Jill Cook Richards] is twenty-eight years into a career as a self-described psych...

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