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I am grateful to Jennifer R. Ayres for suggestions that helped to strengthen this article and to Nanette Sawyer, Carol McVetty, and Marilyn Pagan-Banks, whose interviews provide the data for this article. Quote is Luke 22:19.
Norman Wirzba, Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 150.
Ibid, 149–68.
Jennifer R. Ayres, Good Food: Grounded Practical Theology (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2013), 53–64.
In using the terms explicit and implicit, I draw from educators who argue that schools and churches teach three curricula: the explicit, the implicit, and the null. For the original development of the theory, see Elliot Eisner, The Educational Imagination (New York: Macmillan, 1979).
Nicholas Abercrombie, Stephen Hill, and Bryan S. Turner, The Penguin Dictionary of Sociology, 3rd ed. (New York: Penguin Books, 1994 [1984]), 75–76.
Gregory C. Stanczak, ed., Visual Research Methods: Image, Society, and Representation (Los Angeles, CA: Sage, 2007). Several chapters in this volume address photo elicitation interviewing.
Such a small sample size cannot, of course, provide a comprehensive overview of all the work of community building in urban settings, but rather offers insight into the particularity of community formation in varied urban contexts.
Grace Commons became a lay-led house church in late 2015.
Carol retired in June, 2016.
Letty Russell, Church in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1993), 12.
Carol McVetty, interview by author, June 2, 2011.
Ibid.
Nanette Sawyer, interview by author, June 6, 2011.
Marilyn Pagan-Banks, interview by author, July 18, 2011.
Ernest W. Burgess, “The Growth of the City,” in The City Reader, ed. Richard T. LeGates and Frederick Stout, 4th ed. (New York: Routledge, 2007), 154–57; Louis Wirth, “Urbanism as a Way of Life,” in The City Reader, ed. Richard T. LeGates and Frederick Stout, 4th ed. (New York: Routledge, 2007), 94.
See, for example, Arnold Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940–1960 (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1998 [1983]); Patrick Sharkey, Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013).
Jackson W. Carroll, As One with Authority: Reflective Leadership in Ministry, 2nd ed. (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2011), 92–93. Carroll also names meaning interpretation and empowering people for public ministry as two additional core tasks.
McVetty interview (see n. 13).
These women do far more than engage the four practices that I discuss here, of course. I focus on these practices because they emerged most strongly in my analysis of the interviews.
Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 19, quoted in Walter Fluker, Ethical Leadership: The Quest for Character, Civility, and Community (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2009), 86–87.
Fluker, chap. 4. Fluker also advocates the practice of reverence as a basic component of civility.
“Eucharist,” in Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry: Faith and Order Paper 111 (Geneva, Switzerland: World Council of Churches, 1982), II.D.20.
Maria Harris, Fashion Me a People: Curriculum in the Church (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 1989).
BEM, II.D.19 (see n. 24).
Banks interview (see n. 16).
McVetty interview (see n. 13).
Ibid.
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Deborah J. Kapp
Deborah J. Kapp is professor of urban ministry at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago. She is a teaching elder in the PC(USA) and has served three urban congregations as pastor.