"Orality" articles in current Christianity Today

Winning the Oral Majority
Mission agencies rethink outreach to the world's non-literate masses.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/003/30.56.html

"Seventy percent of the world's people today can't, don't, or won't read," says Avery Willis, executive director of the recently formed International Orality Network (ION), a partnership of 22 mission agencies including the Southern Baptist Convention's International Mission Board (IMB), Youth With a Mission (YWAM), Trans World Radio, Campus Crusade for Christ, and Wycliffe Bible Translators.

while

"...nearly 90 percent of the world's Christian workers serve among auditory learners and often use inappropriate, literacy-based communication styles."

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Orality at Home
The language of postmodernism.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/003/31.58.html

"The storytelling around the campfire that we view as the practice of the ancients has been replaced by storytelling from the flickering light of the television screen," says Grant Lovejoy, the Southern Baptists' director of oral strategies.