FAITH IN CULTURE
articles on the challenges and opportunities for faith in modern culture
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Box Set Binge
A deeper, richer, more intuitive understanding of human life is emerging in culture and it is a gift for sharing faith. The era of shared TV has largely passed. Shows attracting up to twenty million people at the moment they were broadcast – Morecambe and Wise, the Generation Game, the Good Life – have given way to niche viewing in an age when the costs of production have reduced so much that a young person is far more likely to watch YouTube all evening than one of the main channels.
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Virtually Unstoppable
The new digital social networks have the potential to transform society.
Is there something magical about the number of 150?
British anthropologist Robin Dunbar has suggested that the natural size of a group is about 150. He calculated that this figure ‘seems to represent the maximum number of individuals with whom we can have a genuinely social relationship, the kind of relationship that goes with knowing who they are and how they relate to us’. Elaborating on this ‘rule of 150’, social thinker Malcolm Gladwell cautions expanding churches to be aware of the perils of size, saying that ‘crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference’. Larger groups tend to become less close-knit and cohesion and loyalty suffer as a result.
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