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Jun 14, 2013 Uncategorized

Calgary City Soul: A Story of Urban Thriving

Faith-based organizations nurture people’s most deeply held beliefs, sanctify their lives’ most vital relationships, and comfort their deepest pains and most profound sorrows. Do we have room for this in our cities’ plans?

Jun 7, 2013 Uncategorized

Religious Freedom: The Cornerstone of Strong Social Architecture (Part Two)

Rather than treat all organizations, employees, clients, and students as if they shared the same vision of sin and good, harm and flourishing, the government should acknowledge and accept the differences.

May 31, 2013 Uncategorized

Religious Freedom: The Cornerstone of Strong Social Architecture (Part One)

Our communities are populated by such a diverse and flourishing set of nonprofit organizations and businesses only because our government allow these organizations the freedom to exist.

May 24, 2013 Uncategorized

Urban Visions at Odds: Haussmann, Kuyper, and the Chicago Housing Authority

What happens when your city plan neglects to take into account the creativity, desires, and varied needs of the actual people who live there?

May 17, 2013 Uncategorized

Activism, Justice, and Longing for Shalom

I care about justice; must I be an activist?

May 10, 2013 Uncategorized

Responsible Activism and Social Change

If it’s up to this generation to save the world, what will happen to our faith lives if there’s still saving to be done when we’re finished with it?

May 3, 2013 Uncategorized

Renewing Social Architecture by Building Bridges

A community in which diverse organizations share a common agenda, continually communicate, share data, and employ shared measurement systems is extraordinarily rare. In fact, I’ve never seen Believe2Become accomplished elsewhere.

Apr 26, 2013 Uncategorized

Committees: The Mentors of Our Time?

The young are “plagued with endless possibilities,” and seeking mentors for learning. Where, though, do institutional leaders look for mentoring?

Apr 12, 2013 Uncategorized

Transform This

Could revival possibly come through the prison system?

Apr 5, 2013 Uncategorized

A Divided Church for the Common Good?

Many of those concerned about justice have little time for the institutional church, while ecclesiologists are often suspicious of “justice” talk. Ephraim Radner won’t let these two groups keep ignoring each other.

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