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A spiritual roadmap for saving our cities
A number of cities have been in the news lately as their residents struggle with weather- and war-related challenges. Among them are tsunami-ravaged Sendai, Japan; war-torn Tripoli, Libya; and the politically volatile Kabul, Afghanistan. There is also growing concern about economic tragedy, as many cities around the world continue to suffer the effects of the 2008 financial crisis. My hometown of Detroit is frequently mentioned. Once known as the thriving automotive capital of the world, lately it has been gaining increasing notoriety for its continual decline.
Following the recent census, which showed how drastically Detroit has shrunk in the past ten years, an article in The Wall Street Journal, by William McGurn, compared its plight to that of the devastation in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina and the earthquake that struck northeastern Japan. “In Detroit, of course, we do not see lives being lost to an angry and capricious Earth. But the human wreckage is there all the same—the consequence of crime, strangled opportunity, and lives without hope” (“A Requiem for Detroit,” March 29, 2011).
Nor is Detroit alone in its struggles. Other American cities such as El Centro, California, Cleveland, Ohio, and Newark, New Jersey, face economic and social difficulties of their own. But whatever the situation a city may face, whatever the cause of devastation—natural, political, economic, social—when people join in prayer, it’s possible to prove that progress, healing, and even rebirth are the natural outcome.
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July 18, 2011 issue
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Letters
Betty Hughes, Ed Hurter, Vicki Knickerbocker, Maralee Knowlen
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Love marches on
Jenny Nelles
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Church growth—grappling with the new norms
Amy Frykholm
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Energy that is plentiful—and safe
Channing Walker
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How is Truth revealing itself to you?
Genelle Austin-Lett
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Protection during a tornado
By Paula Todd
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My healings!
Rachel
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The pure joy of running
By Shane Witters Hicks
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A spiritual roadmap for saving our cities
By Susan Tish
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Praying about terrorism in Jesus’ way
By Mark Swinney
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A lens of love in Northern Ireland
By Hilary McCreary
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Religion and the responsibility to love
By Lyle Young
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All on this globe together
Rosalie E. Dunbar
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Prayer in an earthquake
By Norman Anderson
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A new President of the Board of Education
The Christian Science Board of Directors
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When Christian Science dawned in my life
Mark DeGange
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The burning bush
Anne Dixon
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Healed of severe digestive condition
Gail Moeller
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Lump in breast dissolved
Carmem Tereza Fonseca Medeiros
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Grateful for many healings
Jan Arend Clarke
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Your divine ‘career counselor’
The Editors