God's Word Books about Urban Issues
Companion to the Poor
Grigg, Viv
Cry of the Urban Poor
Grigg, Viv
Where the Nations Meet: The Church in a Multicultural World
Rhodes, Stephen A.
Journey to the Center of the City: Making a Difference in an Urban Neighborhood
White, Randy
Gods that Fail: Modern Idolatry and Christian Mission
Ramachandra, Vinoth
Discovering Your City: Bringing Light to the Task of Community Transformation
Waymire, Bob; Townsend, Carl
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
Davis, Mike
Cities, Missions' New Frontier
Roger S. Greenway & Timothy M. Monsma
The Urban Christian
Bakke, Ray
Taking Our Cities for God : How to Break Spiritual Strongholds
John Dawson
Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. Big City
Mike Davis
God So Loves the City
Charles Van Engen and Jude Tiersma, editors
The Urban Transformation of the Developing World
Gugler, Josef
That None Should Perish: How to Reach Entire Cities for Christ Through Prayer Evangelism
Ed Silvoso
Housing Africa’s Urban Poor
Philip Amis and P. Lloyd, editors
Planting Churches in Muslim Cities: A Team Approach
Greg Livingstone
Ethnic Conflict in World Politics
T.R. Gurr and B. Harff
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
Laurie Garrett
Organic Faith: A Call to Authentic Christianity
Ron Mitchell
Amazing Grace
Kozol, Jonathan
Beyond Charity: The Call to Christian Community Development
Perkins, John
The City of the Dead: A History of Cairo’s Cemetery Communities
Jeffery Nedoroscik
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
De Soto, Hernando
Foundations of God's City: Christians in a Crumbling Culture
Boice, James Montgomery
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
Davis, Mike
Urban Injustice: How Ghettos Happen
David Hilfiker
A Theology as Big as the City
Bakke, Ray
Transforming Power
Robert Linthicum
Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire
Cymbala, Jim & Merrill, Dean
Renewing the City
Robert Lupton
Crossing Into America: The New Literature of Immigration
Louis Mendoza (Editor), S. Shankar (Editor)
Matters of Substance: Drugs - and Why Everyone's a User
Griffith Edwards
Quest for Hope in the Slum Community
Scott Bessenecker, editor
The City: A Global History
Joel Kotkin
Planet of Slums
Mike Davis
The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
Shane Claiborne
Under The Overpass
Mike Yankoski
 
 

"All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us."

2 Corinthians 5:18-20 (NIV)

 
 

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