Resources on Loving Our City
by Pastor Duane Smets
God calls us to love cities and commit to them. This has been a big passion of my life and the reason why I live in and planted a church in San Diego. Below are resources you can use in sorting through whether this is the city God has called you to be.
Articles
San Diego For Life – Duane Smets
The Importance of the City – Duane Smets
A Theology of the City – Tim Keller
Hate the City, Love the City – Jonathan Dodson
A Vision of SD as a Great City of the 21st Century – Mary lyndon & Michael Stepner
SD Cost of Living Calculator – Zac Self
Books
The Meaning of the City – Jacques Ellul
Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome – Rodney Stark
City of God – St. Augustine
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
Why Cities Matter: To God, the Culture and the Church – Stephen Um & Justin Buzzard