Today, on his 200th birthday, Charles Dickens is a writer for our times. Dickens is the rare artist appreciated both in his own day and by succeeding generations. Art that can be explained away by its component parts is not likely to be great art; the greatness of Dickens’ art,… [more]
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The good that comes from reading about Horrible Things
One of the first Holocaust novels I read was Lois Lowry’s Number the Stars, which tells the story of 10-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her family as they rescue Jews from Nazi forces in Copenhagen, Denmark. I was too young to grasp World War II’s immensity - the international impact, the… [more]
MLK and defying ‘the most segregated hour’
Two Athens, Ga., churches - one black, one white - came together yesterday morning to celebrate the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Mount Pleasant Baptist Church and Milledge Avenue Baptist Church combined for a Sunday-morning service and luncheon as a way to celebrate the federal holiday that… [more]
When historic churches suffer Esau congregations
A recent article in an online edition of The Atlantic calls attention to a problem for many urban churches: the care and feeding of their old building is sometimes more than the dwindling congregation can bear. The article raises an interesting question: what are - or should be - the… [more]
A Christian call for urban design intervention
Mel McGowan of Visioneering Studios says North Americans live in an autopia – a landscape conformed to serve cars. Does this fall in line with God’s calling to live in community? McGowan explores the issue – and offers a path toward “urban design intervention” - in this video from the… [more]
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Siarlys Jenkins Music snobs who like things done decently and in good order are not limited to any one racial category, nor are experiments in integration the same thing as appeasing young people...
MLK and defying 'the most segregated hour'
Ed It looks to me like older, beautiful urban churches find themselves in problems as much for the lack of real vision on the part of the believers who attend them as anything else.
When historic churches suffer Esau congregations