Practicing Faith in the Inner City Mark R. Gornik
May 1, 2001 Books discussed in this essay
Andrew Billingsley, Mighty Like a River: The Black Church and Social Reform (Oxford Univ. Press, 1999). Robert D. Carle and Louis A. DeCaro, Jr., eds. Signs of Hope in the City: Ministries of Community Renewal (Judson Press, rev. ed., 1999). Roberta Brandes Gratz with Norman Mintz, Cities Back from the Edge: New Life for Downtown (Wiley, 1998). Paul S. Grogan and Tony Proscio, Comeback Cities: A Blueprint for Urban Neighborhood Revival (Westview Press, 2000). Nile Harper and associates, Urban Churches, Vital Signs: Beyond Charity Toward Justice (Eerdmans, 1999). Katherine S. Newman, No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City (Alfred A. Knopf/Russell Sage Foundation, 1999). Cheryl J. Sanders, Ministry at the Margins: The Prophetic Mission of Women, Youth and the Poor (InterVarsity, 1997). Stanley P. Saunders and Charles L. Campbell, The Word on the Street: Performing the Scriptures in the Urban Context (Eerdmans, 2000). Amy L. Sherman, Restorers of Hope: Reaching the Poor in Your Community with Church-Based Ministries That Work (Crossway, 1997). Ray Suarez, The Old Neighborhood: What We Lost in the Great Suburban Migration, 1966-1999 (Free Press, 1999). Jim Wallis, Faith Works: Lessons from the Life of an Activist Preacher (Random House, 2000). William Julius Wilson, The Bridge Over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics (Univ. of California Press/Russell Sage Foundation, 1999). Robert L. Woodson, Sr., The Triumphs of Joseph: How Today's Community Healers Are Reviving Our Streets and Neighborhoods (Free Press, 1998). Two miles west of Baltimore's tourist-packed and stadium-lined inner harbor, and just a mile or so further from Fort McHenry where the "Star Spangled Banner" ...
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