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Brian Walsh was my prof. back in my seminary days at Wycliffe. He was the first person who introduced me to the subject of Postmodernity and the Christian Imagination. He has a new book just released called Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement. Here is the blurb:

This book goes far beyond covering the subject of homelessness as the social problem we all recognize in our cities. Mass emigrations, displaced families, and human alienation from the earth all mark our times. In critiquing contemporary North American culture, Steven Bouma-Prediger and Brian Walsh discuss various forms of homelessness — socioeconomic, ecological, and psycho-spiritual — and creatively show how biblical attentiveness and Christian faith can heal the profound dislocations in our society.

Ending each of their chapters with a moving biblical meditation, the authors also interact throughout with characters and themes from current literature and popular culture — from Salman Rushdie to Barbara Kingsolver, from the Wizard of Oz to Bruce Cockburn.

Bruce Cockburn, oh yes. I remembered sitting at Walsh’s chaplaincy office down the basement at Wycliffe, discussing the grand narrative of the bible, the texts of terror; whether there really is a such a thing as post-modernism, while listening to Cockburn at the same time…

About the Author
Steven Bouma-Prediger is professor of religion at Hope College, Holland, Michigan. His other books include The Greening of Theology and For the Beauty of the Earth.

Brian J. Walsh is a campus minister at the University of Toronto and adjunct professor of theology of culture at Wycliffe College. He is also the coauthor of Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be.

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Update: Early review from Hearts and Minds.