that seemed so full of promise for freedom and self-actualization. But it has failed, as chronicled in distinctive ways by Vance Packard and Peter Berger among others. It is now clear that a sense of place is a human hunger that the urban promise has not met. And a fresh look at the Bible suggests that a sense of place is a primary category of faith. This discussion is an attempt to bring together that primary category of faith and that urgent hunger among us. What follows is a sober judgment that