Living ordinary lives with extraordinary delight.

Christians tend to be curiously pessimistic about our cities. It's time to reimagine six assumptions about our shared urban lives.

How small loans are dignifying, empowering and changing lives across the world—and redefining how we perceive the poor among us.

From the White House to every other political arena, means are more important than ends.

Daniel Sepulveda was drafted in the fourth round of the 2007 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers, the same year he was the Steelers' rookie of the year. He was a three-time All-American at Baylor University in Texas, and is the only punter in NCAA history to win the Ray Guy award, honouring the nation's top collegiate punter, twice.

You never know when, in some open, urban space, you might stumble upon an object that appears to be art.

Andy Crouch is editorial director for The Christian Vision Project at Christianity Today international, executive producer of the documentary films Where Faith and Culture Meet and Round Trip, on the board of Books & Culture, a senior fellow of the International Justice Mission's IJM Institute and, of course, author of Comment's favourite book of 2008, Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling (IVP Books, 2008).

Dr. Michael R. Stevens has been teaching in the Humanities Division at Cornerstone University since 1997. He did his Ph.D. work in Literature at the University of Dallas in Irving, TX, where he—as a native of upstate New York and a lifelong Buffalo Bills fan—was forced to witness the Bills losing two Super Bowls in a row to the Cowboys. Stevens loves reading and writing about baseball and about the Civil War, and he owns and sometimes dons a Union blue uniform for presentations.

Nicole Baker Fulgham works on the faith community relations team at Teach for America, inspiring people in faith-based organizations to work to eliminate educational inequity. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she is also an avid figure skater.

Inside the "invisible church" where spirituals—and jazz—were born

"Nothing matters but the kingdom, but because of the kingdom everything matters." —Gordon Spykman

Four streams for college graduates embracing whole-life faith