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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...

The way Jesus ultimately brought about the year of the Lord’s favor was by taking the Lord’s disfavor on himself for us on the cross. It’s interesting to note that in the Old Testament, the Year of Jubilee began on the Day of Atonement. In the same way, Christ’s life, death and resurrection make a way for our own “Jubilee.” We find our power not in our ingenuity, experience, accolades or intelligence. Our power to do the work of Christ is rooted in the very work of Christ. How do we live this out