“If You Build It, They Will Come”: Do Big Events or Projects Change Cities?

We can’t fix a city’s problems with big events. I recently spent a few days in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1996, Atlanta had the distinction of hosting the Summer Olympics. City planners saw the Olympics as the perfect excuse to rebuild and restore a blighted section of the city near Georgia Tech’s campus. I can rememberContinue

Radical or Ordinary: How Does Christianity Thrive?

Ordinary is the new Radical. Michael Horton’s newest book, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World, campaigns for the church to reconsider her calling to be faithful in ordinary Christian living. This is according to a Christianity Today book review by Philip Cary. (Full disclosure: I have only read the review of the book,Continue