Thriving in the Crosscurrent:

Clarity and Hope in a Time of Cultural Sea Change

It is a welcome surprise to read a book that proclaims 'things are getting better.' Most people only see and bewail the decay of traditional values. It takes a person with Jim Kenney's wide historical perspective, awareness of contemporary innovative thinking, and prophetic vision, to discern the emerging new values, which are global rather than parochial, and which will, I pray, provide the moral and spiritual basis for a more peaceful and caring civilization, which treasures the sacredness of all life.

–– Marcus Braybrooke, President, World Congress of Faiths; author of A Heart for the World and Beacons of Light

Out of Jim Kenney's own lifetime work with grassroots communities and interfaith / intercultural movements has come this inspirational book, which will excite and energize its readers. His articulation and affirmation of humanity's growing new consciousness of our interdependence, and our cultural evolution from old ways into new values – based on justice, nonkilling, nonviolence, and peace – will give hope to the human family.

– Mairead Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate; author of The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland

Jim Kenney believes that we are living in an exciting time of cultural evolutionary sea change. He draws on his broad experience at the cutting-edge of work for peace and justice and offers a compelling vision of human possibility.

–Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade and The Real Wealth of Nations

Here's hoping we're in for a sea change of the kind Jim Kenney describes – it will take real shifts if we're to deal with the problems bearing down on us, climate change most of all. And those shifts will, as he says, have their roots in our _understanding of who we are.

– Bill McKibben, educator, environmentalist, founder of the international climate campaign 350.org; author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

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Supporting Evidence:
Seven Signposts of
the 21st Century
Renaissance

SIGNPOST #1

We're experiencing unprecedented levels of public outrage and grief over the oil spill.

SIGNPOST #2

Our global ambassador is a woman—one who came very close to being elected president of the United States.

SIGNPOST #3

An African-American man sits in the Oval Office.

SIGNPOST #4

Social and economic justice and human rights have become the most significant themes in the modern global conversation.

SIGNPOST #5

War is no longer “inevitable.”

SIGNPOST #6

Yes, there’s a rise in religious fundamentalism…but it’s a classic “eddy” that hides the huge progress we’re making in the other direction.

SIGNPOST #7

We’re globalizing from the bottom up.

About the Book

A compelling vision of human possibility.
—Riane, Eisler, author of The Real Wealth of Nations

Economic crisis, global violence, environmental disasters—what a mess! But there's real reason for hope, says Jim Kenney: we are simply caught in another cultural sea change, like that of the sixteenth-century Scientific Revolution.

Historically, such upheavals are always chaotic. But they also advance human cultural evolution. Kenney explains these shifts in terms of crossing waves of values. Currently, the older values of patriarchy, racism, war mongering, and exploitation of nature are slowly giving way to newer values of gender equity, human rights, nonviolence, and ecological awareness.

It's by no means an easy passage. But we can hasten the change by consciously embracing it and seeking out likeminded allies.

Riding the new wave, we will discover, is powerful and exhilarating. And it makes a difference.

Click the links on the left to review seven “signposts” that affirm Kenney’s position that we’re living in the midst of a dramatic sea change.

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