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We Want Your Common-Good Stories: Introducing Our Second Essay Contest

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The Beauty of Life in Small Places

City-focused evangelicals have much to learn from Rod Dreher's memoir of small-town life.

Ministering on the Margins in Rural America

Tierra Nueva ministry reaches drug addicts, migrant workers, and other downtrodden people living in Washington State.

Did We Love 'God Made a Farmer' Too Much?

Someday maybe we'll find the road between demeaning rural life and romanticizing the difficult reality of today's American farm.

Don't Give Up on Post-Christian Places

Tim Keller shows how the seeds of gospel transformation can take root in rocky secular soil.

My Love Affair with Small Town America

The qualities that drive away others are what endear me to my community.

Love Isn't Easy in Man Camp Ministry

When roughnecks descend on an oil boomtown, Christians find the gift of hospitality strains their vision of ministry.

A Developing Nation Inside the U.S.

The forgotten rural poor face desperate challenges.

A God-Sized Food Bank

The Big Reach Center of Hope offers a lifeline to Ohio's rural poor.

Love Where You Live

Urban, suburban, and rural churches respond to new challenges in a less mobile era.

A Hand Up: Aid for Trade in Mozambique

Faith-based model teaches rural poor how to use trade to rise out of poverty.

Setting Up Camp Afresh

Christian camping is revamping but not out of the woods yet.

Mobile No More

How does the biblical storyline relate to America's all-time-low moving rate?

How God Works Through Ordinary Churches  Subscriber access only

Ruth A. Tucker writes about how small churches are doing Christ's work.

Where Community Is No Cliché

Forty-three families in rural Texas blend Pentecostal fervor and Anabaptist simplicity.

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