Cities and Towns Library

Download the entire Cities and Towns issue and the set of six Study Guides. Or, download individual pieces by clicking the titles below.

• Articles
"Dysfunctional Cities: Where Did We Go Wrong?" by Lee Hardy
"Citizens of Another City," by Barry Harvey
"The New Urbanism," by Eric O. Jacobsen
"Saint Benedict in the City," by Bryan Hollon
"The Church Building as Sacramental Sign," by Philip Bess

• Art
Cities and Towns in Art, by Heidi J. Hornik
"Blinded," on Pieter Bruegel [the Elder]'s The Blind Leading the Blind
"An Ordered Neighborhood," on Edward Hopper's Early Sunday Morning and Nighthawks

• Hymn and Worship Service
"Crate and Castle," by Robert B. Kruschwitz, Terry W. York, and C. David Bolin
Worship Service, by Ann Bell Worley

• Inspirational Pieces
"Moving to the Carpenter's House," by Elizabeth M. Benton
"Salt in the City," by Amy L. Sherman
Other Voices, Quotations on Cities and Towns

• Book Reviews
"Building a City that Honors God," by Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb
• Eric O. Jacobsen, Sidewalks in the Kindom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith
• T. J. Gorringe, A Theology of the Built Environment: Justice, Empowerment, Redemption

"Restoring Urban Communities," by Lissa Schwander
• Robert Lupton, Theirs is the Kingdom: Celebrating the Gospel in Urban America
• J. Nathan Corbitt and Vivian Nix-Early, Taking it to the Streets: Using the Arts to Transform Your Community
• John M. Perkins, ed., Restoring At-Risk Communities: Doing It Together & Doing It Right

• Study Guides and Lesson Plans (Download the set of six Study Guides)
• "Dysfunctional Cities: Where Did We Go Wrong?"
• "Citizens of Another City"
• "Salt in the City"
• "The New Urbanism"
• "The Church Building as Sacramental Sign"
• "St. Benedict in the City"