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8 Prayer Mentors from History

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The unique, and perhaps unexpected, confluence of church and city

The unique, and perhaps unexpected, confluence of church and city Kevin Walthall, Columnist © Jeanne Carlo Santos / Contributed image Kevin Walthall Last year my column took one of two directions: Christian cultural issues or city planning issues. Sure, there were some necessary deviations into Star Wars and an adulation of Dak Prescott that my wife found disturbingly poetic, but for the most part, my printable thoughts are almost exclusively occupied by Church and State or rather, Church and City. And it’s no coincidence; the two are more connected than they may seem. Both represent collecting points for culture. Both have something to say about public beauty: the Church used architecture and public art to communicate the Gospel before literacy was common, and FDR commissioned public art to boost patriotism and the economy during the Depression. The spiritual and the aesthetic will always inform one another, just as the moral and the legislative will. P

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