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How are we to understand the tension within the Christian Scriptures related to cities?The Hebrew prophets are often critical of cities and many of the destructive promises within the Scripture are aimed at cities, not just groups of people. At the same time, we cannot escape the moving words of the prophet Jeremiah calling God's …
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Aaron Renn from The Urbanophile recently had an article reposted at NewGeography that a friend passed along to me. The article, "Religion and the City," traces the importance of religion in urban contexts from a sociological perspective outside of the Christian sphere. It is an insightful read calling for religion to be taken seriously in …
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Today at our all staff meeting at Eastbrook Church, we discussed a message by Tim Keller entitled "God's Global Urban Mission - Contextualization" from Cape Town 2010, the Third Laussane Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town, South Africa. It was a very stimulating conversation about the nature of the church in urban settings. You …
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Matthew Erickson 