Die Afrikaanse Protestantse Akademie Biblioteek

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-322) and index.

Introduction: The Starting Line -- pt. 1. Shapes and Trends of the Coming Millennium. Demographics. 1. Keeping Up with the Joneses: Shifting Faces and Places. 2. The Minority Majority: This Land Is Their Land. 3. Gauges of Ages: Boomers and Busters, Yuppies and Buppies. Technology and Ecology. 4. The Information Age: Technological Takeover? 5. Bioethics: A New God? 6. Earth: Dominion or Doom? Society and the Family. 7. Designer Lifestyles. 8. Nuclear Family Fission. Education, Media, and the Arts. 9. Educating Dick and Jane. And Ramon and Natasha. 10. Phantoms of Stage, Screen, and Canvas. The Economy and Government. 11. Cash Flows and Flaws. 12. Political Spears? Or Plowshares? -- pt. 2. Changing Shapes of Churches and Religion. Who's Hot and Who's Not. 13. Manners and Sideliners. 14. Frontliners and Headliners. 15. Roamin' Catholics. 16. Blacks to the Future. Fittest of the Survivors. 17. Muslims, Jews, Mormons, and More. 18. Alternative Altars: Next-Age Faiths. 19. Clashing Cosmologies: Battle for the Worldview. Pulpitshift. 20. Shining the Pastoral Patina. 21. Making Dollars and Sense of Missions and Ministry -- pt. 3. Models for the Millennium. Denominations. 22. Goal Setting: Evangelical Lutherans. 23. Drug Busting: United Methodists. 24. Perimeters and Satellites: Presbyterians and Baptists. Congregations. 25. Willow Creek Community Church. 26. All Saints Episcopal Church. 27. St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church. 28. True Vine Missionary Baptist Church. 29. Vineyard Christian Fellowship. Innovations. 30. Other Models, Strategies, and Assessments -- pt. 4. The Finish Line. 31. Anticipating the Next Age.

Earth-shaking trends of the 21st Century are shaping America's religious future. But spiritual forces can also bend the trends. Every rip of the calendar brings us closer to 2001. Powerful forces that will affect virtually every aspect of your life are already in motion. Yet most Americans are unaware that they can deflect and direct these massive changes. Award-winning journalist Russell Chandler looks at the power of religion and tells the ordinary person how to get ready for the coming millennium. Now. In fast-moving style, the author assesses: perils ahead in technology, education, media, and the arts; future challenges in medicine and genetics; forecasts for politics and the economy; upcoming upheavals in families, life-styles, and employment; and the surprising shift to non-traditional religions.