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Dec 1, 2010 Faithful living

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Editorial: Worldviews Go Home

“What we forget,” my professor said, “is that at the end of the day, the philosopher closes his office door and goes home—and just is, despite how he thinks he ought to be. He plays with his kids and eats his dinner and sleeps in his soft bed.”

Dec 1, 2010 Faithful living

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Living Faithfully in the Industrial Town

Our task is not only to see the industrial town as it “is,” in all its brokenness and fragmentation, but also to see it as it “could be,” to imagine a different town in light of God’s redemptive work and purpose. Unfortunately, too many of us live in the world as “is” and haven’t developed the imagination to see God’s hand at work in shaping what “could be.” Frontiers need people who have the eyes to see and ears to hear a new reality of a Kingdom that is “already, but not yet.”

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Living Faithfully in the Global Hypercity

The Christian, whatever her context—rural, suburban, small town, and so on—should embrace the ascent of cities. These grandiose claims for the self-importance of cities and their residents are precisely what those who live elsewhere instinctively rebuff. But consider the stakes involved: Pragmatically, as the cities go, so goes the rest of culture, for good or for ill—what happens there will soon become everyone’s problem or opportunity.