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Book review: The Millennium Matrix by M Rex Miller
Miller's compelling thesis is that the church has been located in four different communication cultures over the last 2000 years, and that each one has profoundly influenced the entire fabric of the church - the way it is organized, relates together, and communicates to the outside world. For the first 1500 years until the invention of the printing press, society lived in an 'oral communication culture'.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/millennium-matrix.php
Book review: Flickering Pixels - How Technology Shapes Your Faith, by Shane Hipps
This is a very significant and strategic book because it explains the way that electronic media, especially computers and the Web, are changing our culture. As we use them, they are in fact using us, in ways we may not realize.
For 500 years, Western culture has been a 'left-brain' print-based communication culture, where we could express everything in 26 alphabetic characters. The way we preached the gospel, structured our Christian activities and systematized our theology - all have been completely shaped by print. But now technology is rapidly changing this print culture. When the medium changes, the message is changed too. Effective evangelism must take account of these changes.
http://internetevangelismday.com/bookreviews/flickering-pixels.php
LWP-Audio Bible Ministry Reaches Amazon Tribes
One testimony of how the teaching of God's word orally is transforming villages around the world.
http://lausanneworldpulse.com/perspectives.php/967
Lausanne World Pulse - Story and Song in Kpele-Dafo
An Innovative Church Planting Model Among an Oral Culture of Togo. Communities are being transformed across Africa because communication bridges are being used to share the gospel with oral cultures.
http://lausanneworldpulse.com/themedarticles.php/499/10-2006?pg=all
Lausanne World Pulse - Tools for Reaching Oral Learners
Finding the right kind of tools to use to share the gospel with oral cultures takes creativity and an understanding of the audience.
http://lausanneworldpulse.com/themedarticles.php/505/10-2006?pg=all
Lausanne World Pulse - The Role of Partnership in Oral Evangelism: A Case Study in India
Reaching the seventy percent non-literate oral population in Bihar State, India has always been a problem. But doors are now opening.
http://lausanneworldpulse.com/themedarticles.php/503/10-2006?pg=all