Urban Ministry Book List
Below are books and authors that can help challenge and stimulate congregational imagination about how justice and compassion can take concrete, bodily form in the city.
A Clarified Vision for Urban Mission: Dispelling the Urban Stereotypes
Harvie M. Conn, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1987.
A Heart for the City: Effective Ministries to the Urban Community
John Fuder Chicago: Moody, 1999.
A Theology As Big As The City
Raymond Bakke, Downers Grove, IL InterVarsity Press, 1997.
Acting On Your Faith: Congregations Making a Difference
Victor N. Claman & David E. Butler with Jessica A. Boyatt, Boston, MA: Insights Inc., 1994.
Center City Churches: The New Urban Frontier
Lyle E. Schaller, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1993.
Churches, Cities, and Human Community: Urban Ministry in the United States 1945-1985
Clifford J. Green, ed., Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1996.
The Expanded Mission of City Center Churches
Raymond Bakke & Samuel Roberts, Chicago, IL: International Urban Associates, 1998
Ministries of Mercy: The Call of the Jericho Road
Timothy J. Keller, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1989.
Real Hope in Chicago
Wayne L. Gordon, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1995.
Rebuilding Our Communities: How Churches Can Provide, Support, and Finance Quality Housing for Low-Income Families
Alice Shabecoff, Monrovia, CA: World Vision, Inc. 1992.
Restoring At-Risk Communities: Doing It Together & Doing It Right
John M. Perkins, ed., Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1995.
Resurrecting Hope
John M. Perkins with Jo Kadlecek, Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1995
Restorers of Hope: Reaching the Poor in Your Community with Church-based Ministries That Work
Amy L. Sherman, Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1997.
Seek the Peace of the City: Reflections on Urban Ministry
Eldin Villafañe, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1995.
Seek the Welfare of the City: Christians as Benefactors and Citizens
Bruce W. Winter, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1994.
Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith
Eric O. Jacobsen, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2003.
Signs of Hope in the City: Ministries of Community Renewal
Robert D. Carle & Louis A. Decaro Jr., eds., Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 1997.
To Live in Peace: Biblical Faith and the Changing Inner City
Mark R. Gornik, Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2002.
The Urban Christian: Effective Ministry in Today’s Urban World
Ray Bakke, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1987.
Urban Churches Vital Signs: Beyond Charity Toward Justice
Nile Harper, Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999.
Urban Ministry
David Claerbaut, Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1983.
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