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Today we're pleased to share with you one of our articles on audio.

The Challenge and Opportunity of Metamodern Christianity by Brett McCracken, read by the author.

Metamodernism is our cultural moment, and has been since the late 90s, and especially since

September 11th, 2001, a date that put the final nail in the coffin of postmodernism.

Most normal people don't use, and will never use the

term metamodernism. But that doesn't mean they aren't living the reality of it, carrying the

disposition that metamodernism describes. What's that disposition? You can read Luke Turner's

influential essay for a concise overview, or the piece I

wrote last year on the Metamodern mood and its implications for the church. Metamodernism is what

came after postmodernism, which is what came after modernism. But metamodernism doesn't simply want to replace modernism and postmodernism.

It seeks a synthesis or integration of the two, with the metamodern mood constantly oscillating

or toggling between modern and postmodern postmodern postures. Once you understand metamodernism, you start to see it everywhere.

In pop culture, in politics, in how we talk and think,

let's consider some dynamics of metamodern Christianity

that will be important for church leaders to understand and address.

Specifically, let's drill down into one big challenge

and one big opportunity I'm seeing.

Challenge. Bespoke spirituality.

Some people who talk about metamodernism want to characterize metamodern Christianity as a kind of new pinnacle of learning,

where we've taken all that's come before and

arrived at a new height of enlightenment and how we view God and reality. But I think

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