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What if it is not just how we live that matters, but also where? Faith in Cities: How Better Places Make Better Neighbors takes a closer look at the way our communities help or hinder us from being better neighbors. This book helps readers explore the relationship between the places we've built and broader issues like justice, wealth, poverty, the environment, and the Church. The title Faith in Cities has two meanings in this book. While it addresses the experience of being a person of faith living in an urban setting, the book is also about believing in the power of great design to foster positive relationships with each other. Whether you are a Christian, observe a different faith, or have no particular faith tradition, the hope is this book will resonate with you and challenge you to rethink the places you inhabit.

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If we're serious about Jesus' commandment to love our neighbors, we also need to love our neighborhoods. As Chris Lazaro argues compellingly in Faith In Cities, the physical places where we live, work and worship matter. Combining biblical wisdom and the insights of urban planning, this is a timely book for those seeking to live out their faith. -Matthew Soerens, US Director of Church Mobilization & Advocacy, World Relief, and Co-Author, Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate Among Christians, the word community remains far too abstract and ephemeral. Lazaro's Faith in Cities is a much needed corrective to this unfortunate tendency. In this book he demonstrates persuasively that community is fundamental to Christian discipleship and that true community is necessarily experienced in geographically specific and physically constructed ways. This way of understanding community reveals the important ways that how we engage (or fail to engage) in God-honoring community has implications for justice, the environment, and many other aspects of human flourishing. -Eric Jacobsen, author, Three Pieces of Glass: Why We Feel Lonely in a World Mediated by Screens and Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith The way of Jesus winds through streets, past apartments, over sidewalks, and finds us loving our neighbours. Using fresh research, engaging stories from his own community, and insight across disciplines, Chris Lazaro adeptly guides readers into their own neighbourhoods to see their cities as places that God absolutely loves. -Preston Pouteaux, author, The Bees of Rainbow Falls: Finding Faith, Imagination, and Delight in Your Neighborhood The precious resource we're all fighting for is time. If you're picking up this book be assured you're investing your time well. You will be challenged, reminded and nudged through this book to keep the faith--in Jesus and your role in cities. -Alan Briggs, Founder & Coach, Stay Forth Designs and Author, Staying is the New Going

If we're serious about Jesus' commandment to love our neighbors, we also need to love our neighborhoods. As Chris Lazaro argues compellingly in Faith In Cities, the physical places where we live, work and worship matter. Combining biblical wisdom and the insights of urban planning, this is a timely book for those seeking to live out their faith. -Matthew Soerens, US Director of Church Mobilization & Advocacy, World Relief, and Co-Author, Welcoming the Stranger: Justice, Compassion & Truth in the Immigration Debate Among Christians, the word community remains far too abstract and ephemeral. Lazaro's Faith in Cities is a much needed corrective to this unfortunate tendency. In this book he demonstrates persuasively that community is fundamental to Christian discipleship and that true community is necessarily experienced in geographically specific and physically constructed ways. This way of understanding community reveals the important ways that how we engage (or fail to engage) in God-honoring community has implications for justice, the environment, and many other aspects of human flourishing. -Eric Jacobsen, author, Three Pieces of Glass: Why We Feel Lonely in a World Mediated by Screens and Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith The way of Jesus winds through streets, past apartments, over sidewalks, and finds us loving our neighbours. Using fresh research, engaging stories from his own community, and insight across disciplines, Chris Lazaro adeptly guides readers into their own neighbourhoods to see their cities as places that God absolutely loves. -Preston Pouteaux, author, The Bees of Rainbow Falls: Finding Faith, Imagination, and Delight in Your Neighborhood The precious resource we're all fighting for is time. If you're picking up this book be assured you're investing your time well. You will be challenged, reminded and nudged through this book to keep the faith--in Jesus and your role in cities. -Alan Briggs, Founder & Coach, Stay Forth Designs and Author, Staying is the New Going

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