Week 6 - To KM

Good, thorough work, KM.

Distilling all that you hit upon, I'd like to add (or perhaps merely re-articulate) one insight that your comments lead us toward.

You said "...rapidly increasing globalization and the development of global media have resulted in many cultural, political, and military clashes among nations and cultures because of many discrepancies based on every group’s interest."

I think that really shows us the powerful voice the Church can have speaking into this system as a outside force (if such removal from national interest can happen among us). Because so many of the clashes have been over national interests that have refused to compromise, the Church of Jesus-followers, with our allegeance to Him alone, should at least theoretically be poised to use global media, NOT for the same national interests, but in truly counter-cultural and potentially transformational ways. As a Body on the "outside" of national interest we can speak into those systems and structures and point out the injustices and advocate for the oppressed. We can embody the Gospel in speech and deed, working wiht the Spirit to bring the Kingdom near to the "least of these."

You hinted at this when you said, "...these difficulties, rather, request that our Christians should be change-agents on the inequality and irrationality to redistribute such powers through global media." I just wanted to draw that out a little more.