Over the last 6 weeks we have been looking at a series of articles by Bob Lupton on justice in at-risk communities. Lupton addresses relocation, incarnation, a wholistic approach to ministry to the poor, as well as many other helpful insights into what it means to live out the gospel in and to at-risk neighborhoods.
Here are all 6 articles:
Part 1: How To Do Justice In At-Risk Neighborhoods: Intro
Part 2: How To Do Justice In At-Risk Neighborhoods: The Devastating Impact of Gentrification – And the Absolute Need
Part 3: How To Do Justice In At-Risk Neighborhoods: Including the Poor in the Reclamation Process
Part 4: How To Do Justice In At-Risk Neighborhoods: A Theology of Gentrification
Part 5: How To Do Justice In At-Risk Neighborhoods: New Paradigms for Ministry
Part 6: How To Do Justice In At-Risk Neighborhoods: Harnessing Gentrification for the Sake of the Kingdom
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Bob Lupton has invested almost 40 years of his life in inner-city Atlanta. In response to a call that he first felt while serving in Vietnam, he left a budding business career to work with delinquent urban youth. Bob and his wife Peggy and their two sons sold their suburban home and moved into the inner-city where they have lived and served as neighbors among those in need. Their life’s work has been the rebuilding of urban neighborhoods where families can flourish and children can grow into healthy adults.
Bob is a Christian community developer, an entrepreneur who brings together communities of resource with communities of need. Through FCS Urban Ministries – a non-profit organization which he founded – he has developed two mixed income subdivisions, organized a multi-racial congregation, started a number of businesses, created housing for hundreds of families and initiated a wide range of human services in his community. He is the author of the books Theirs in the Kingdom, Return Flight, Renewing the City, Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life and the widely circulated Urban Perspectives, monthly reflections on the Gospel and the poor. Bob has a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Georgia. He serves as speaker, strategist, and inspirer with those throughout the nation who seek to establish God’s Shalom in the city.