Thinking more about effect of post Christendom church and mission, I think finding the new centre of our culture will be important. As the meta narrative (overarching story or worldview) has been lost the question is what has replaced it. Currently I think it has been replaced by interactions with popular culture and so in true post modern style there is no single centre but a centre that is formed by a collage of people interacting through popular culture. So the idea of Sunday papers as a metaphor for church fits well.
I was discussing this with some guys on the train back from London. They don’t know each other but often travel together as they get on and off at the same station, often their conversation centres around what is the news or papers that day. More on this another day but my battery is about to die.
Ideas on where the centre of culture is now, greatly received
I’m a little confused as to what you’re asking. Are you asking for what we consider to be centres (pl) of culture? Or are you looking to create a little snapshot of this collage of different people’s centres of culture.
Personally I wonder if, just as what one might discuss when looking through the papers changes, so might the ‘centre of culture’ continually change as well.