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Urbanization and Christianity  

StaffSeptember 24, 2010 

 

Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, writes about the relationship between the reality of the rise of cities throughout the world and the influence of Christianity in these cities.  He opens his article by saying, 

The human future is an urban future. In one of the greatest social shifts of all human history, over half of all living humans now inhabit cities. Driven by population shifts, immigration, and human reproduction, massive new cities are springing up all over the globe. Will the church rise to this challenge?


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