This week Emily Badger of The Atlantic Cities published an article that arose out of a conversation that she had with Stephen Um and me about our book, Why Cities Matter. While some nuance in our thinking is inevitably lost in the interview and article, the main point still rings through: cities matter to God, the culture, and the church. Here’s an excerpt:

Perhaps cities have become associated with secularism because there’s so much else to worship there: either the promise of cities themselves, or the prospects for good jobs or other forms of success.“I’ve got a lot of people in my church who move to Silicon Valley thinking once they had their big job at Apple or Google or Facebook or Twitter, or once they came up with their big startup idea, then they’d be ultimately, completely happy and satisfied,” Buzzard says. “A lot of what I deal with there is peoples’ disillusion with the city.”

This is the point where we offer up our alternative: an introduction to God’s grace. Click here to read the whole article.