How front porches encourage loitering (aka “community”)

Public spaces are endangered in modern American landscapes. How can front-porch culture encourage spiritual loitering in a rat-race world?

Walkability, Justice, and Healthy Cities

We have for several generations built our most significant places on the cheap: homes, office buildings, churches, libraries and the infrastructure that connects them, all built on the low bid. faithful communities serving the poor are beginning to ask questions about our responsibility not just to green our lives and our houses, but also to create healthy places that foster community and justice, beachheads of livability and vitality that can begin to spread across the city landscape.

Location, location, location: Residential choices and Creation Care

Last week NPR’s Morning Edition aired a pair of stories by Elizabeth Shogren, one about a family that moved out to the Atlanta suburbs, and one about a family that moved intown to a “new urban” development....Neither of them created the environment they inhabit; they’re just trying to do their best to live in it.