Dr. Ben Norquist is a writer, scholar, and serves as the Director of Communications & Development for Bethlehem Institute for Peace & Justice, bringing Palestinian Christian teaching into conversations within the global church. Dr. Brian Miller is a professor of sociology at Wheaton College, and his research interests include the American suburbs (particularly their development, culture, depictions in media, and housing), cities, religion and place and how it relates to American evangelicalism and culture. Together, Ben and Brian wrote a recent book together called: Every Somewhere Sacred: Rescuing a Theology of Place in the American Imagination
Time Stamps
00:00 Introduction
02:01 What is a Theology of Place?
06:56 Ethics and Place.
11:29 The Morality of Cities. Why do we build these places?
17:11 Patriotism, Christian Citizenship & Love of Place
23:54 Gentrification, NIMBYism & Who Is My Neighbor?
30:33 What Theology of Place Is Trying to Recover
34:40 Israel-Palestine Through the Lens of Land
40:34 Christianity in the Big City vs. Rural Christianity and the Suburbs
49:2 Where to Find More Brian and Ben
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