The Church and Western Tribalism is a collection of essays by Rev. Dr. Rollin G. Grams on the challenge that postmodern, post-Christian, Western culture poses for the Church and Christians. Part of the shift in Christian missions in the 21st century has been to stop thinking of missions as 'from the West to the rest,' and part of this change in thinking involves a clear understanding of what the Church's mission to the West (and all those areas of the world that have been shaped by it) is. Persons interested in this book will find it on this blog's book shop (https://bibleandmission.blogspot.com/p/bookstore.html). What follows is the book's preface and table of contents. Preface Seismic shifts in Western culture have taken place since the 1960s. We struggle to understand what these changes are and how to articulate them. The argument in this book is that the present state of Western culture might be described as ‘postmodern tribalism’—a developed and lat