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“We expect a theophany of which we know nothing but the place, wrote Martin Buber, “and the place is called community.” Surely his words in Between Man and Man are prophetic. God comes to us in the midst of human need, and the most critical needs of our time demand community in response. Today the …
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Since 1968, some 400,000 rental units of publicly subsidized private housing have been constructed to fill the void left by the failures of the conventional U.S. public-housing program. Restrictions in site selection, mismanagement, and inadequate policies for tenant admission and eviction have, however, often plagued these privately operated projects as well. Too often relegated to …
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Can churches save America’s cities? That question has been frequently posed in recent months, and the implicit answer has been “yes” or at least “maybe.” Newsweek ran a cover story (June 1) on the inner-city ministry of Eugene Rivers in Boston and asked, “Can religion fight crime and save kids?” The article itself was titled …
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Walk west if purse-snatchers and crack-crazies permit, along Blake Street in Brooklyn’s Brownsville section. A few shattered buildings remain standing among the rubble-strewn lots; all else is a desolation. Yet the outlook changes when one rounds a corner onto Mother Gaston Boulevard. First, small shops appear. They are not much to look at, hut they …
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