This Is Our City

What happens when a city shrinks? Detroit is finding out. The city has been the center of outsized stories its whole life, from the booming days of the Motor City (and Motown) to the painful upheavals of the 1967 riots. Yet Detroit also has outsized hope, a muscular refusal to give up, and, not least, resilient and committed churches and Christian leaders. And the city is seeing an influx of artists and entrepreneurs who see in Detroit's lovely bones a chance to create something new and beautiful.