Finding Holy in the Suburbs: Living Faithfully in the Land of Too Much

Suburban life-including tract homes, strip malls, commuter culture-shapes our desires.More than half of Americans live in the suburbs. Ashley Hales writes that for many Christians, however: "The suburbs are ignored ('Your place doesn't matter, we're all going to heaven anyway'), denigrated and demeaned ('You're selfish if you live in a suburb; you only care about your own safety and advancement'), or seen as a cop-out from a faithful Christian life ('If you really loved God,you'd move to Af...