EVERY SOMEWHERE SACRED RESCUING A THEOLOGY OF PLACE IN THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION
June 16, 2026 RELIGION / Christian Theology / General 978-1-5140-0941-3, 256 Pages, PBK, 6 x 9 inches, $27.99
Theology Become Stewards of God’s Vision Where You Are 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.
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.
“In a culture where we are increasingly untethered to the land and to our neighbors, we are in desperate need of theology that quite literally grounds us. Every Somewhere Sacred does just that, offering a profound and essential invitation to reimagine the power of place.” Amanda Held Opelt, speaker and author of A Hole in the World
“Readers will welcome the case studies and practical examples of how to interpret and understand the places they occupy, cultivating a sense of belonging that calls them to responsibility and reciprocity.” H. Daniel Zacharias, professor of New Testament studies at Acadia Divinity College and coauthor, with T. Christopher Hoklotubbe, of Reading the Bible on Turtle Island
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