Comments on: A Post-Colonial Worldview of Global Missions: Introduction http://www.novuslumen.net/a-post-colonial-worldview-of-global-missions-intro I write within the tension of spirituality and culture, politics and theology, existing and emerging forms of church, the Kingdom of God and Empire America, modern and postmodern thought, & the gritty drama that is my pilgrim story. Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:13:56 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: maria http://www.novuslumen.net/a-post-colonial-worldview-of-global-missions-intro/comment-page-1#comment-23836 maria Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:06:56 +0000 http://www.novuslumen.net/a-post-colonial-worldview-of-global-missions-intro#comment-23836 you wrote: "In addition to this political paradigm shift, the world has seen economic ones, too. Globalization grants the South and East unprecedented opportunities to begin enjoying the luxuries and technologies the West has enjoyed for centuries. Nations like Brazil, China, India and even Kenya are now economically linked to the West and benefiting from that interconnectedness at unprecedented levels. So not only is the South and East asserting themselves like never before, and rightly so, the West has begun to value and incorporate the cultures of these non-Western nations into their ethos, rather than insisting they conform to Western sensibilities." Really? I have some books for you to read :) I would probably use "exploitation" instead of "opportunity" in your first sentence. Instead of nation states committing the exploitation we have large multinational corporations. I agree that a tiny, tiny percent of the global south may be "enjoying the luxuries and technologies of the West" but let's keep this in perspective: half the world still lives on less than $2/ day (surely youve heard this statistic before). You've probably read Jeffery Sachs. What do you think of his "development ladder"? If as you say (and I agree with you here) -- the church has even farther to go than the west in dealing with our globalized multicultural world within the context of the balance of power, than the church has an even longer way to go :) what a wonderful segway into missions though, God knows there is a lot to do, peace and warmly, maria you wrote: “In addition to this political paradigm shift, the world has seen economic ones, too. Globalization grants the South and East unprecedented opportunities to begin enjoying the luxuries and technologies the West has enjoyed for centuries. Nations like Brazil, China, India and even Kenya are now economically linked to the West and benefiting from that interconnectedness at unprecedented levels. So not only is the South and East asserting themselves like never before, and rightly so, the West has begun to value and incorporate the cultures of these non-Western nations into their ethos, rather than insisting they conform to Western sensibilities.”

Really? I have some books for you to read :)

I would probably use “exploitation” instead of “opportunity” in your first sentence. Instead of nation states committing the exploitation we have large multinational corporations. I agree that a tiny, tiny percent of the global south may be “enjoying the luxuries and technologies of the West” but let’s keep this in perspective: half the world still lives on less than $2/ day (surely youve heard this statistic before).

You’ve probably read Jeffery Sachs. What do you think of his “development ladder”?

If as you say (and I agree with you here) — the church has even farther to go than the west in dealing with our globalized multicultural world within the context of the balance of power, than the church has an even longer way to go :)

what a wonderful segway into missions though, God knows there is a lot to do,

peace and warmly, maria

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