Archive for the 'Urban ministry' Category
Resources for Mercy & Justice
Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson January 17th, 2010 on Creation ProjectWe pretty much got blown away on Sunday by God’s mercy. If you weren’t with us at Austin City Life, I encourage you to listen to the audio. We prayed, we wept, we sang, we repented, we hoped in the God of Mercy. Amazing. Here are a few practical resources for you to continue to […]
Would you take a second to share some ways you are serving your city? Small and big are important. Helping a neighbor to serving on city committees. Go!
Exegeting Culture and Changing Cities
Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson January 14th, 2009 on Creation ProjectCheck out these two posts on:
Practical Ways to Exegete Your Culture.
Why church planters need church planters to change a city.
Drawing from the recent book A Crime So Monstrous, this article chronicles some of the modern-day slavery movement, which includes human traficking to the U.S. Author and journalist Benjamin Skinner puts this in perspective:
“traffickers turn up to 17,500 humans into slaves on American soil every year. Put another way, assuming you read at an average […]
A couple months ago I posted on new urbanism, mentioning a book by Philip Bess called Till We Have Built Jerusalem. New urbanism is “an American urban design movement that arose in the early 1980s intended to reform all aspects of real estate development and urban planning, from urban retrofits to suburban infill. New […]
Newsweek on Keller; Keller on Newsweek
Closed Published by jdodson February 10th, 2008 on Creation Project Newsweek profiles Tim Keller.
The reporter writes about visiting Redeemer: “There’s nothing sexy here. There’s no rock band, no drop-down theater-size video screen, no 100-member gospel choir—just a few chamber musicians and a couple of prayer leaders to help the congregation along in its hymns. The crowd at Redeemer Presbyterian is overwhelmingly young, single, professional and—for […]
In “Bright Lights, Big Cities” Matthew Quirk argues for the goodness of burgeoning urban slums. Contrary to intuition, slums, shantytowns, and squatter settlements reduce national poverty. Quirk points out that sixty-six percent of the migrants who move from rural to urban contexts make more money. Yet doesn’t it take more money to live in (or […]
Check out the new online magazine from NY Times, the electronic upgrade of their print magazine (which often has great articles and book reviews). Here is their description of T:
“T translates the print magazine content and sensibility into an immersive, online experience. T is not your conventional online magazine. It is full of […]
Christian Theology as Cultural Engagment
Closed Published by jdodson November 30th, 2007 on Creation ProjectReflecting on the emergence of Christian theology in the Early Church and its interaction with the Mediterranean world of ideas, Andrew Walls writes:
Not only were new social situations constantly arising; an intellectual environment that combined the influences of Greek philosophy, Roman law, Eastern mysticism and spirituality, and astral science [sound familiar?] was giving rise to […]