The future of humanity is urban.It might seem a bad move for a magazine named after a farm tool to bring out an issue on cities. Especially if that magazine is published by an Anabaptist community that originated in a backtotheland movement and still has the whiff of hayfield and woodlot to it. Why not stick to what youre good at? Why jump lanes?Because the future of humanity, pretty clearly, is urban. Urbanization is arguably the biggest change of habitat our species has ever undergone. For anyone who cares about the common good of humanity, then, cities need to matter.The modern city is an electrifying concentration of creativity, energy, and cultural dynamism. Its also still the cauldron of unholy loves that Saint Augustine discovered in Carthage one and a half millennia ago. Its the place where the cruelties of mammon, the hubris of power, and the perversions of lust manifest themselves most crassly. But cities have also given birth to culture and community and to remarkable movements of revival and renewal.In this issue, visit Belfast with Jenny McCartney New York City with James Macklin Medelln with Adriano Cirino Pittsburgh with Brandon McGinley Guatemala City with Jos Corpas Philadelphia with Clare Coffey Chicago with John Thornton Jr. Paris with Jason LandselYoull also find Insights on cities from Jane Jacobs, Eberhard Arnold, Augustine, and Philip Britts reviews of books by Jonathan Foiles, Bethany McKinney Fox, J. Malcolm Garcia, Tatiana Schlossberg, Tim...
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The future of humanity is urban.It might seem a bad move for a magazine named after a farm tool to bring out an issue on cities. Especially if that magazine is published by an Anabaptist community that originated in a backtotheland movement and still has the whiff of hayfield and woodlot to it. Why not stick to what youre good at? Why jump lanes?Because the future of humanity, pretty clearly, is urban. Urbanization is arguably the biggest change of habitat our species has ever undergone. For anyone who cares about the common good of humanity, then, cities need to matter.The modern city is an electrifying concentration of creativity, energy, and cultural dynamism. Its also still the cauldron of unholy loves that Saint Augustine discovered in Carthage one and a half millennia ago. Its the place where the cruelties of mammon, the hubris of power, and the perversions of lust manifest themselves most crassly. But cities have also given birth to culture and community and to remarkable movements of revival and renewal.In this issue, visit Belfast with Jenny McCartney New York City with James Macklin Medelln with Adriano Cirino Pittsburgh with Brandon McGinley Guatemala City with Jos Corpas Philadelphia with Clare Coffey Chicago with John Thornton Jr. Paris with Jason LandselYoull also find Insights on cities from Jane Jacobs, Eberhard Arnold, Augustine, and Philip Britts reviews of books by Jonathan Foiles, Bethany McKinney Fox, J. Malcolm Garcia, Tatiana Schlossberg, Tim...
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