There is a sense in which technology is accelerating both the death of older

cultures in a sense but also in a way we are moving quickly from what you

might say was pre-modern to modernity or post-modernity in that sense and I think that

creates a sort of crisis even within the local churches and the churches to know how do you

Respond to questions that are changing at a very very quick rate, which is why I think the theological education becomes important as you're trained to know how to think,

not just what to think, but actually how to think and how to process that.

And I think the disillusionment among the young people would be that you have an older generation of clergy

that really is in a way out of touch with the questions that the younger generation are asking or even

how to respond to that and so internet, Twitter technology and all that is bringing about

that culture change generating more new questions. applying the riches of the reformation to the modern church. This is Whitehorse Sin, a weekly roundtable discussion about theology

and culture. Hello and welcome to another edition of White Horse Inn. It's a pleasure to be able to have a conversation with two good friends in Africa.

We're in Nairobi, Kenya, right now, having great conversations as we always do with our partners in East Africa.

David Taurus, first of all, I want to introduce you because the organization that you lead is ACTI, if you would just sort of give a little bit of background on the organization and the scope of its work.

All right, thank you very much.

Yeah, so I lead ACTi. Acti stands for Association for Christian

Theological Education in Africa. It started close to 50 years ago as a ministry of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa.

So the ministry started as an accrediting institution, but it has diversified its programs to include research and a lots of capacity building programs.

And you're the main accreditor of seminary in

and Bible colleges.

Yes, and we are part of what is called the International Council

for Evangelical Education, I said. And we work with schools across. Tele

Teleological Education, I set. And we work with schools across the continent from the Portuguese-speaking

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