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We are gathering stories of Christians finding creative ways to bless their community. While we are encouraged to hear any story of city transformation, we are particularly interested in stories that:
- Center on a Christian or group of Christians, rather than an official church structure
- Center on Christians working in business, the arts, government, education, media, and politics
- Are currently unfolding, and thereby include conflict and emotion.
Thank you!
The Top 10 This Is Our City Stories: Editor's Pick

Would You Move After a Shooting On Your Front Lawn?

Can Urban and Suburban Christians Agree?

Yes, Sometimes We Can Serve Both God and Mammon

Why We Send Our Kids to the Poorest Public School

Piecing Together Peace Amid Chicago's Youth Violence

From Columbine to the State Capitol

How UK Christians Can Respond to Secularism

A Long Obedience in the Same Downtown

A Middleman for Change in Miami

How I Responded to India's Rape Epidemic

Christ Among the Contractors

How I Learned to Love My Literal Neighbors

A Growing Charter School Planted in Rocky Soil

'Let Me Impact the Media for You'

Rethinking the $3,000 Missions Trip

Meeting Our Tokyo Neighbors with Open Doors

Making Omaha (Yes, That One) a Tech Startup Hub

Marching to Town Hall with Refugees and Immigrants

Following Jesus, the Best Tech Guru

Making Films With, Not About, the Homeless

How Psychology Shapes Our Prejudice

Choosing Marriage Over the Mission Field

A Designer Lighting the Way to Justice

How One Artist Turns Skid Row into Sacred Streets

The LA Theologian

Two Urban Manifestos for Evangelical Christians

We're All Makers Now

Home Improvement Meets the Gospel

You Can't Buy Your Way to Social Justice

The Tech Poverty Fighter

The Oceans Declare the Glory of God

We Want Your Common-Good Stories: Introducing Our Second Essay Contest
Keeping Christian Schools Alive in Urban Chicago

Why Tim Keller Wants You to Stay in That Job You Hate

Andy Crouch and Gabe Lyons Define the Common Good
The Art of Art Collecting

Forging the Future with the Tip of a Pen

A Place for Creatives to Come and Perch

Doing an Inverted 180 on Colorado's Dead Forests

Ministering on the Margins in Rural America

Making Culture in a Small Town Storefront

Why I Left World Vision for Finance

Mixing Medicine and Mercy in the Streets of Iraq

Not Your Father's Christian Community Development

Jesus Is Coming, So Save a Wave

Why I Offer Clean Needles in Jesus' Name

'Daddy, Why Do People Steal from Us?'

Pay-What-You-Can Restaurants Dish Up Dignity in Denver

Sibling Filmmakers Set Out to Free Austin's Sex Slaves

A Well-Lit Pathway Out of Poverty

My Love Affair with Small Town America

A Sliver of Shalom in the Suburbs

How a Korean Prodigal Son Landed on Toronto's Stage

The Moral Mattress Kings of Denver

Want to Change the World? Call a Meeting

How to Approach Politics After November 6

Why Urban Christians Need Wendell Berry

An Architect for the Green-Friendly Masses

The Cutting Edge of Marketplace Ministries

What's So Great About 'The Common Good'?

The Moral Case for Debt

Planting Gardens in Prison: Why We Labor for Shalom Now

Why Suburbia Really Is Affecting Your Spiritual Life

The Community Curator: How ArtPrize Is Changing Grand Rapids

Productivity and Grace: Management and Labor at a Denver Manufacturer

Why Early Childhood Parenting Is a Gospel Priority

Announcing: The This Is Our City Essay Competition
Dancing to the Beat of Shalom: Christians Revive Kansas City's Arts Scene

How (Not) to Be Worldly: Tracing the Borders of the 'Earthly City'

Walking toward Wellness: How Healthy Eating Informs Our Kingdom Work

Good Eats and Evangelism: A Whole-Gospel Restaurant Serving Pittsburgh's Soul

Digesting Grace: Why the Food We Eat Matters to God

Tilling among the Tulips: Christians Sow Hope at a West Michigan Farm

The Story-Telling City Planner: Ebony Walden Infuses Poetry and Place

Muslim Creativity Comes to Church in Alexandria, Egypt

In Lansdale as It Is in Heaven: My City's Glocal Hope

Building a Beloved Community around Persons with Disabilities

A MASH Unit for Grief: A Support Center Reaches the 'Incoming Wounded' of Long Beach

In Philadelphia, a Pastor Turned Business Owner and Accidental Arts Patron

Faith Healing: How Local Churches Are Stepping into Health Care's Gaps

A Growing Hunger for a Local Voice: Sara Groves and Family Open Art House in St. Paul

Redeeming What Was Tossed: Fashion, Faith, and a California Designer's Creative Calling

Becoming a City Without Orphans: Connecting Fresno Christians to Foster-Care Children

Ohio Stadium: The Buckeye State's Monument to the Glory of Football

More Than Sales and Coupons: Giving Circle Connects Suburban Moms to Indianapolis

Soccer and Salvation in Thailand's Largest Slum

Common-Good Decisions: When Christians Bless the Cities of God

Oldest Profession, or Oldest Oppression? Ohio Judge Creates Court for Abused Prostitutes

Why Civic Engagement Belongs in Every Church's Mission Statement

Ed Dobson: How God Uses My Lou Gehrig's Disease for Good

Culture Making Amid Cancer: The Choices That Suffering Makes Possible

Artificial Grace: Why the Creation Needs Human Creativity

Lecrae's 'Man Up' Mission to Address Father Absence

Waiting for the Real Superman: A Christian School Closes the Achievement Gap

Public Education: The Next Moral Issue for Today's Evangelicals

Bloom Where You Are Planted: Why We Chose Public School

Duty and Desire: The Best Hope for Our Children's Education

An Unexpected Choice: Why We Traded the Public School for Homeschooling

'This Is a God Place': Why I Send My Kids to Christian School

We're Not the First Generation of Urban Christians

Why Christians Can Raise Kids Anywhere: A Response to Kathy Keller

God Called Me to Move to the Trailer Park

The Baylor CEO Changing the Health-Care Debate

A Savvy Peacemaker Building across Missouri's Race Lines

Where Am I? The Middle-Class Crisis of Place

The Spiritual Discipline of Staying Put: Planting Roots in a Placeless Culture

Breaking Through the Glass Sidewalk: Why Every City Needs Women Influencers

A Legacy in Indianapolis That Outlives the Super Bowl

Shrimp and Grits with a Side of 'Shalom': The King's Kitchen Revitalizes Charlotte

We Can't Go Back to the Garden: Critiquing Evangelicals' Over-Ruralized Eschatology

A Christian Teacher Residency Program That Eschews Classroom Evangelism

A Guide to Being Salt and Light in Knoxville

Celebrating the Unglamorous, Effective Work of Local Politics

Building Houses As If They Mattered

The Word on the Street in Manhattan and Philadelphia

Before 'Transforming' Your Neighborhood, Talk to Your Neighbors

The Kardashians and Common Grace: Winter in Los Angeles

Taste and See That Seattle Is Good—Especially at Christmastime

Twinkly Lights in the Palm Tree: Why I Love Christmas in Miami

Boston at Christmas: Beauty, History, and That New England Frankness

Who Will Love the City After a Nuclear Attack?

Andy Crouch on the Flourishing of the City
How Mormon Country Became My Home

An Ichthus in a Sea of Loan Sharks

Doing Good and Turning a Profit

Gratitude Comes to the City

Where Christian Civic Engagement Begins

No More 'Christian Artists' in Charlottesville

A New Name for North Little Rock

Classical Christian Education Goes to the City

Revisiting Boystown

A New Kind of Urban Ministry

Seeking a 'Fanboy' Faith
