Urban Loft Publishers

What role does the church play in shaping the built environment of the city? Or does it? Blueprints for a Just City is an exploratory journey looking at the ways in which God's people have played a...

We live amidst the collision of cultures and of worldviews, and the collapse of the Enlightenment synthesis. Rapid and unpredictable changes generate anxiety within us and stress within the...

As a young urban youth worker, Ted Travis was captivated by a question posed by Christian community development pioneer Dr. John Perkins: "How do we build incentive in inner-city youth, motivating...

It all begins with being called a ... copycat. We were born to be copycats. From the age of 4 months, humans copy everything they hear and see. God hardwired us to learn this way. From butterflies to...

Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, many world events have drawn attention to the intersection of Islam and Christianity. Evangelical views of Islam as a religion and Muslims as adherents of Islam...

As the tide has turned and a wave of church planters have washed up on the shorelines of city centers many are learning to navigate the intricacies of urban life for the first time. Many of today's...

In our journey with the poor, we are confronted with material objects we are attached to. We are challenged to ask, what is it we cannot live without? The goal is not to turn into rigid stoics, or...

In a time of mass urban migration, the great irony of our age is that the closer we have come together the further we have moved apart. Within this globalizing world the gap between rich and poor...

Author: Annie Lockhart-GilroyPublisher: Urban Loft PublishersPublication Date: Jul 25, 2020Number of Pages: 116 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1949625230ISBN-13: 9781949625233

What if we could imagine living in our neighbourhoods in a way that transformed our whole outlook on faith, hope, and love? Preston Pouteaux writes about how an unlikely journey into beekeeping...

There is a lot of talk these days of community and mission, but formation is sometimes forgotten in the midst of it all. This seems to be the most difficult part of our lives to practice because it...

How do we get to know our cities? How do we identify the spirit of a place? What theological and social frameworks will contribute to our understanding? As a church we have lagged far behind in our...

Often times the Bible is associated with rural pastoral settings. The Israelites wandering in the desert wilderness living in tents, David playing his harp for sheep out in the pasture, and Jesus...

Do we have a positive theology of the city so that an urban spirituality can emerge from this place? We have for too long focused on quick fixes, pop up churches, and strategic solutions which have...