Gentrification assumes a top-down approach to housing and social policy. The reality often doesn’t match the assumption.

In the world’s poorest communities, an outbreak like Coronavirus threatens to wreak untold havoc.

How can we make sense of the increasing inequality in some of the world’s largest cities?

Why do some people grow quickly and move on in the Christian life while others drift away or always seem stuck in neutral?

There seems to be some sort of (urban?) myth that working with the poor is especially ‘hard’. As if somehow in the pantheon of Christian ministry, ours stands alone as the really difficult one.

The conversation about poverty is usually dominated by people with very little experience of being poor.

According to Darren McGarvey, gentrification is basically “the practice of getting rid of any evidence that the community is working class.”

Prisoners need to see how glorious Genesis 1:27 is in order to understand how bad Ephesians 2:1–3 is.

This is the book I would have written had it not been for the gospel of Jesus Christ.

There’s no special dispensation for those of us who have had a crap life.