My recurring life topics: identity, authentic spirituality, spiritual development and growth; how art interfaces with spirituality (the sacred imagination), creativity as a place of spiritual transformation, the identities of cities…

On this last subject, just started an illuminating book which really is written towards a theology of the cities. “Cities Redeemed (a theology of the city)” it’s called.

It was the last book written by our Dutch friend Pieter Bos, who died a few years back, but nearly finished this book beforehand, and has lots of seeds for good contemplation about who cities are, and their destinies from a city planner and city’s reconciler who was spiritually awake!

Covers the identities of many global cities as well: Atlanta, Prague and many others, in terms of who they are, their wounds, and how their identities are to be redeemed. Nice meditations on their identities and destinies! I like again thinking of cities as people with a story! A DnA, a wound or corrupted version, and then a healed redeemable version! Hopeful model.

Good heuristic (ideas which lead us towards useful streams of knowing) triggering stuff thus far! I love people who love cities, and see them as having personalities and relationships to God and one another. Good stuff. And again, you don’t have to agree with everything a person says, to learn from them! I’ve learned that much.

Plus, i like the dutch mind, it includes the creative three dimensional thinking, but is eccentrically systematic at the same time. Nice to trace his way and orientation towards cities today!