Book Recommendation

For any and all interested in what it might mean to "be church" in the changing city, I highly recommend Mark Gornik's "To Live in Peace: Biblical Faith and the Changing Inner City." The book provides a vision of an integrative urban ecclesiology that is challenging and firmly routed in scripture.

If there's one book you read this fall, I think this should be it. Gornik's book is written out of the experience of planting the New Song community in Sandtown, one of Baltimore's roughest inner-city neighbourhoods.

For those of us thinking about church in our various neighbourhoods, whether rich or poor, sane or crazy, this book adeptly examines community building from the perspective of someone who has been engaged in that type of project for over ten years.