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Urban Ministry
Two Urban Manifestos for Evangelical Christians
Two new books locate Christians' presence in cities, but only one of them actually engages the city.
May 21, 2013
Top Urbanists Agree: Casinos Ruin Cities
Alongside all the moral arguments against gambling, it turns out casinos simply are a bad investment.
May 9, 2013
The Tech Poverty Fighter
How Andrew Sears at TechMission harnesses the Web to fuel urban ministry.
May 7, 2013
We Want Your Common-Good Stories: Introducing Our Second Essay Contest
And you want our common-good cash, right?
April 25, 2013
Keeping Christian Schools Alive in Urban Chicago
How Bright Promise Fund helps faith-based educators keep their doors open.
April 22, 2013
The Beauty of Life in Small Places
City-focused evangelicals have much to learn from Rod Dreher's memoir of small-town life.
April 4, 2013
What Has Grand Rapids to Do with Detroit?
How Reformed church leaders are bridging the wide divide between East and West Michigan.
March 18, 2013
Salvation at the Storefront Church
How Peacemakers International is giving Detroit drug dealers and prostitutes a hope and a home.
March 4, 2013
Not Your Father's Christian Community Development
How John Perkins's CCDA has changed to respond to 21st-century realities.
February 20, 2013
Why All Your Impressions of Detroit Are Wrong
How the Motor City became America's whipping-boy city--and how Christians can stop the hate.
February 18, 2013
The Great Physicians of Detroit
Covenant Community Care is the only faith-based, federally funded health center in Michigan. It may also be the most Christlike.
February 8, 2013
Gardening to Make Beauty Out of Blight
Riet Schumack is growing more than flowers among her Brightmoor neighbors.
February 8, 2013
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.
February 6, 2013
My Boss Is a Detroit Carpenter
Detroit native Timothy Addy says his Handyman Ministries provides a doorway into people's lives.
February 1, 2013
Why Church Partnerships Really Matter in Detroit
In a city Billy Graham called one of the most divided he'd ever seen, a new church-unity movement is all the more profound.
February 1, 2013
The Art of Restoration Amidst Detroit's Ruined Walls
How the vision of a restored city informs Detroit artist Yvette Rock's haunting work.
January 28, 2013
Faith in a Fallen Empire
Detroit's list of maladies is long. But some Christians' commitment to its renewal is longer.
January 22, 2013
'Daddy, Why Do People Steal from Us?'
How I answered the question would prove crucial to addressing racial divides in our D.C. neighborhood.
January 15, 2013
Meeting Refugees on the Roofs of Richmond
How a new housing ministry is welcoming the newly arrived.
January 7, 2013
Don't Give Up on Post-Christian Places
Tim Keller shows how the seeds of gospel transformation can take root in rocky secular soil.
January 4, 2013
Hurricane Sandy Unites New NYC Churches
Pastor Pete Armstrong says his church's relief efforts are among many common-good decisions to bless the Lower East Side.
November 29, 2012
Why Urban Christians Need Wendell Berry
What could the agrarian essayist who still uses a typewriter teach Christians in city centers? You'd be surprised.
October 22, 2012
Why Every City Needs a Central Park
And why more Christians are needed in urban planning.
October 16, 2012
Why Suburbia Really Is Affecting Your Spiritual Life
Eric Jacobsen, author of 'The Space Between: A Christian Engagement with the Built Environment,' says place matters for human flourishing.
October 5, 2012
What Christians Can Learn from the Chicago Teacher Strikes
Lessons gleaned from the uproar now that Chicago students are back in class.
September 20, 2012
Announcing: The This Is Our City Essay Competition
Tell us about the common-good decisions you or others have made on behalf of your city..
September 14, 2012
Trading Spaces: Inner City Helps the Suburbs
Suburban poor change the direction of ministry.
November 10, 2011
Portland's Quiet Abolitionists
Leading the liberal city's efforts to halt child trafficking is a network of dedicated Christians. Just don't go advertising it.
October 31, 2011
A New Kind of Urban Ministry
Christians no longer want their communities fixed. They want them flourishing.
October 28, 2011
A Dream of a Center: 'A Model for Faith-based Organizations'
An interview with the head of one of the most effective Pentecostal social missions in America.
August 15, 2011
Back to the Garden
Row by row, urban Christians learn to bear literal and spiritual fruit.
July 27, 2011
City Parish: An Australian Builds NYC Networks
Jon Tyson plants neighborhood churches in New York City.
July 26, 2011
Nicky Cruz: David Wilkerson 'Never Lost His Heart'
Gang leader-turned-evangelist misses his spiritual father.
April 29, 2011
Remembering David Wilkerson
How the pastor/evangelist shaped the Pentecostal and evangelical movements—and the world.
April 29, 2011
Love Where You Live
Urban, suburban, and rural churches respond to new challenges in a less mobile era.
July 23, 2010
In Atlanta, Two Churches Lie in New Stadium’s Path
The mayor is championing a new stadium as an engine for construction jobs and a way to transform an impoverished section of downtown. (The New York Times)
Mission told not to feed the homeless in Seattle city parks
The Bread of Life Mission, which has served the homeless community in Pioneer Square for more than 70 years, said the city has directed them to stop feeding the hungry in downtown parks (MyNorthwest.com)
Union Rescue Mission gets a helping hand from Hollywood
Hope Gardens Family Center, which serves homeless families and battered women, expects to make $200,000 this year from TV and movie shoots at its 71-acre site. (Los Angeles Times)
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