Detroit: Mission in the Motor 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.
Alongside all the moral arguments against gambling, it turns out casinos simply are a bad investment.
Aaron Renn

5.9.13
Some leaders say their city could become the first to practice restorative justice across the board.
Charles Honey

4.5.13
How Reformed church leaders are bridging the wide divide between East and West Michigan.
Derek Atkins

3.18.13
Ernestine Sanders and Clark Durant attribute their school's success to its Christ-centered focus.
Interview by Dwight Gibson

3.6.13
How Peacemakers International is giving Detroit drug dealers and prostitutes a hope and a home.
DetroitBlogger John

3.4.13
How the Motor City became America's whipping-boy city--and how Christians can stop the hate.
Aaron Renn

2.18.13
Covenant Community Care is the only faith-based, federally funded health center in Michigan. It may also be the most Christlike.
Stefanie Bohde

2.8.13
Riet Schumack is growing more than flowers among her Brightmoor neighbors.
Nathan Clarke

2.8.13
Detroit native Timothy Addy says his Handyman Ministries provides a doorway into people's lives.
Kevin Selders

2.1.13
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.
Charles Honey

2.1.13
The new documentary is part of the same paternalism that it critiques.
Aaron Renn

1.28.13
How the vision of a restored city informs Detroit artist Yvette Rock's haunting work.
Nathan Clarke

1.28.13
How Christians are spearheading the urban farming movement in Motor City.
Melissa Steffan

1.23.13
Detroit's list of maladies is long. But some Christians' commitment to its renewal is longer.
Katelyn Beaty

1.22.13
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