Every Somewhere Sacred Rescuing a Theology of Place in the American Imagination Discover Research as a Sacred Journey in Mental Health Work
BEN NORQUIST AND BRIAN MILLER
SACRED SOMEWHERE EVERY
Each of us is placed by God in a specific “somewhere.” Drawing on social science research and their experiences across American landscapes and the Middle East, Ben Norquist and Brian Miller show how Christians in the US can develop a redemptive imagination for place. Our identity as followers of Jesus should transform how we live in the physical world, even as we recognize how places shape their inhabitants. Norquist and Miller offer a variety of personal and corporate practices including land research, reassessing priorities and habits, advocating for others, and reconsidering the nature of sacred space, prompting us toward a broader vision for how God works through space, using biblical lenses of landscape as gift, sacrament, kin, and home.
RESCUING A THEOLOGY OF PLACE IN THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION
June 16, 2026 256 pages, paperback, 978-1-5140-0941-3 6 x 9 inches, $27.99 REL067000 RELIGION / Christian Theology / General
BEN NORQUIST (PhD, Azusa Pacific University) has served as director of grants and academics for Churches for Middle East Peace and as director of the Network of Evangelicals for the Middle East, where he helped American Christians pursue holistic peace with their neighbors around the world. BRIAN MILLER (PhD, University of Notre Dame) is professor of sociology at Wheaton College and regularly teaches about and publishes on Christian residential and cultural patterns.
Excerpt from the Introduction
God puts each of us in a specific somewhere and intends for us to be actively connected to it. It is up to us to be faithfully present there, which means knowing the somewhere, understanding the somewhere, loving the somewhere, renewing the somewhere, and passing the somewhere on to others as a blessing. This book is about how American Christians came to live everywhere and nowhere and how they can increasingly live somewhere.
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