Saturday, May 19, 2012

Minority Milestone in the US birthrate...

In the last couple days I've been following a reading trail which presents a milestone in US demographic history.  From now on, there will always be more minorities born in this country than Euro-Americans.  Several publications document this threshold, here is one from the Washington Post.

How many majority-culture churches are aware of this trend?  How many care?  Sadly, for those paying attention, many will see this development as more of a threat than an opportunity...  The youth of this country is the future, and it will be a very diverse story.  Yet, the suspicious boundaries between ethnicities and cultures persist.  Christian self-segregation mutes God's intention for the church to be a contrast community visibly demonstrating the reconciliation power of the gospel.  Unity has no meaning apart from diversity.  Likewise, unity means nothing without participation.