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Making Neighborhoods Whole: A Handbook for Christian Community Development is unavailable, but you can change that!

Already with decades of experience speaking prophetically into the charged racial climate of the American south, John Perkins began to see a need for organized thinking and collaborative imagination about how the church engages urban ministry. And so the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) was born, with Wayne Gordon an immediate and enthusiastic participant. Nearly thirty years...

When visiting America, I found myself wondering how a church elder could occupy an entire dinner conversation in his large and beautiful house with talk about the challenges of the stock market and maintaining a clean swimming pool. Didn’t he realize that people were starving, being tortured and having a hard time finding clean drinking water? Did being American, affluent, educated and respected by his subdivision peers give him the authority to speak in superior tones about what Christ really meant