The crisis in confidence since mid-century about science, technology, reason, individualism, progress, and secularism. Then churches will stumble into the next millennium like travelers without a map searching for direction in a strange new world. Other culture watchers have noticed a significant change in the way people think. This shift is the biggest in 400 years. As we enter the next millennium, global culture is moving from a modern to a postmodern world.
Few people have clear ideas what postmodernism is.
But they do agree on one thing. Words used to describe postmodernism include, Pluralism. Leonard Sweet in the book, Soul Tsunami, lists 10 shifts that are bringing a tidal wave of change. These shifts are not future. They are with us now as we enter the postmodern world of the 21st century.