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This Great and Complicated Place

This Great and Complicated Place Rich Perez

Leslie Mack, Loreni Cespedes, and Sparkle Boea

Sacred Spaces or Common Ground: What Happens when Church Buildings Become Neighborhood Anchors?

What if churches saw their buildings not just as Sunday gathering spaces but as anchors meant to foster the well-being of their communities?

What if churches saw their buildings not just as Sunday gathering spaces but as anchors meant to foster the well-being of their communities? This episode explores how churches can meaningfully engage with housing justice by reimagining their relationship to land, property, and neighborhood.

“This Great and Complicated Place” is a production of Christianity Today Media and supported in part by Stand Together Trust and The Fetzer Institute.
Executive Producers: Erik Petrik and Mike Cosper

Host: Rich Pérez and John Onwuchekwa
Producer: Rich Pérez and John Onwuchekwa
Director of Operations for CT Media: Matt Stevens
Video producer: Rich Pérez

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