The Crossroads of Christianity and Culture

Indeed some already have. And that trend will move to smaller congregations as they seek to compete with mega-churches as providers of social relevance and personal spirituality. The shift away from church to SpiritualityMS is partially driven by technology. Already there are more that a dozen products available to churches for managing the spiritual growth of members of the congregation. And these integrate an even larger number of online providers of Bibles, Bible studies, meditations, personal worship, and nearly endless recorded sermons.  The term integrate here is important. The purpose of these systems is to constantly analyze and evaluate the spiritual needs and growth of congregants using artificial intelligence and then to offer both human and virtual resources to meet those needs. Using smart phone apps as an interface they become the 6 day a week church that both compliments the church worship on Sunday and links multiple campuses together on Sunday. By constant monit...

The Learning Management System, which will almost certainly replace the school is the primary paradigm for higher education. We almost always say "I'm going to school." We almost never say "I'm going to learn." That's because the place; school , and the activity; learning have been synonymous for thousands of years. That is changing rapidly as a new paradigm for education emerges: the learning management system .  The  school paradigm focuses on a place where teachers meet students as the organizing principle of education, with the classroom and its activities being put the more specific location. The learning management system focuses on learning goals by managing the student's learning experience. This which may or may not require classrooms, classes, and teachers and may have many other forms of engagement with whatever is being learned.  This shift in paradigm away from school as a place for learning toward learning goals managed by an LMS wil...