Worth a look...

If you want some interesting reading, have a look at TIME Magazine's list of "10 Ideas Changing the World Right Now", drawing on trends in economics, science, religion and culture. I should note that when they say the 'world' is being changed, they mean it in the American sense - like the 'World Series' of baseball or Superbowl winners being 'World Champion's' - although a number do concern the wider world.

Of particular interest was Number 3, The New Calvinism, a movement riding on the back of "the pioneering new-Calvinist John Piper of Minneapolis, Seattle's pugnacious Mark Driscoll and Albert Mohler, head of the Southern Seminary of the huge Southern Baptist Convention". Number 7, The Rent-a-Country was also something interesting which I hadn't really heard much of.

The 10 Big Ideas they identify are

1. Jobs are the New Assets
2. Recycling the Suburbs
3. The New Calvinism
4. Reinstating the Interstate
5. Amortality
6. Africa, Business Destination
7. The Rent-a-Country
8. Biobanks
9. Survival Stores
10. Ecological Intelligence