The Word on the street : performing the scriptures in the urban context / Stanley P. Saunders, Charles L. Campbell. [print]

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Sin, Grace, and the Basement Door -- Conversions in context: a road map -- The open door community -- Atlanta: a view from the streets -- Contested spaces.

WORSHIP -- Discernment on the road to Emmaus -- Doughnuts, coffee, and communion -- A death in the family -- Boys to men in Atlanta -- The politics of worship in John's Apocalypse.

Word -- The streets, the powers, and the Word: learning from William Stingfellow -- William Stringfellow on the principalities and powers -- Practices of resistance and hope -- Preaching as resistance -- Preaching with hope -- Unmasked -- Street readings/ reading the streets -- The importance of physical location -- Catalyzing scripture and context -- The Biblical precedent for public interpretation -- Street preaching -- A long and lively tradition -- Beyond stereotypes -- An extreme homiletic -- Street theater

SOLIDARITY -- "You have made them equal to us": human solidarity in the household of God -- Scapegoating the homeless -- A song of solidarity with the humilated -- Again... and again... and again -- Dick Rustay and the toilets.

SPACE -- On tall buildings and forgetting God -- Sweet security -- It's a zoo out there? -- Discipleship of the body -- "Justice is important, but supper is essential": solidarity, hospitality, and urban spirituality -- Poor people, moral maps, and space -- Closing the door -- The church and closing doors -- Solidarity, hospitality, and the reconstruction of social space -- God's reconstruction of reality and the church -- Contesting space at the table

"What Happens when two seminary professors leave their classrooms and spend time among homeless people and teach on city streets? In this unique collection of essays and sermons, Stanley P. Saunders and Charles L. Campbell reflect on their encounters with homeless folks in Atlanta and seek to discern the way of Jesus on the streets of the city."