Culture

All the posts about culture

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  Orientation to Time

  If you haven’t done the cultural preferences quiz, do it now! This post explains the statements in part 1 of the quiz. There are various ways cultures see time. These often overlap with other cultural values and whether time is seen as a resource or whether it is something outside of our control. Part 1…

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  Cultural Preferences Quiz

  I work in an extremely intercultural team. There are about 11 nationalities and the team is only about 22 people. That’s a wide level of diversity. This provides a lot of interesting dynamics and sometimes conflicts arise. I’ve also done a MA which looks at leadership in cross-cultural settings. This topic is really fascinating to…

• Counter-Cultural Christlikeness: 1 Peter 4

  This chapter deals with living for God in a pagan society. While Peter talks about a debauched ancient society, the ideas are still applicable today. Cultures and Contexts I think that people often forget that much of the Bible, especially the New Testament, was written when the cultural values it describes were against the prevailing culture.…