Immigrant Changes in 100 Largest U. S. Metro Areas
A very important report was released yesterday from Brookings titled “Immigrants in 2010 Metropolitan America: A Decade of Change,” by Jill H. Wilson and Audrey Singer. You can read the full report HERE. While U. S. immigration during the first decade of the 21st century was slower than that observed in the 1990s, it was [...]
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The Urgent Need for Urban Research in North America
I’ve been in Arizona for the past few days. The annual meeting of the Evangelical Missiological Society took place in Scottsdale. It was great to catch up with old friends and hear from some of today’s greatest missiological thinkers and missions leaders. I gave a presentation this year titled, “Examining Evangelical Concentrations and International Migrations [...]
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It’s an Urban World
I want to take a moment to turn our attentions to the urban world in which we presently live. While just under half of the world’s population lives in rural areas, just over half live in urban contexts. We live in an urban world. The global trends project that we are becoming more and more [...]
Apostolic Missionaries and the Urban Contexts
Over this past week, I have posted about issues related to urban missions. While I hope to do more in the future, I wanted to conclude this series by addressing a matter that I believe is a critical missing link to urban missions today, particularly in western contexts. This issue is the missing element of [...]
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Least Evangelical U.S. Metro Areas
Where are the least reached cities in the United States? The answer to this question is that it seems to depend on to whom you are speaking. What I have found to be the case is that anyone serving in an urban context believes his or her city is the most unreached. Now, while I [...]
My Response to Tim Keller’s Cape Town 2010 Paper
Being one of the bloggers with Cape Town 2010 Blogger Network, I wanted to offer some feedback to Tim Keller’s recent paper, “What is God’s Global Urban Mission,” posted at Lausanne.org, as an advance paper for Cape Town 2010. I have been very thankful for Keller and his commitment to solid biblical teaching, urban environments, and church planting. I [...]
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