Book Review: God Is In The City By Shawn Casselberry

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“God is in the City” by Shawn Casselberry is a truly interesting book which details the author's move from rural Kentucky to the south side of Chicago. His immersion and growing understanding of the city is told in a series of anecdotes taken from events that happened to him while he lived and worked there. This book was of particular interest to me in my Cross Cultural Experience because we spent time in the neighborhoods and areas detailed by Casselberry in his book while we partnered with the organization which he works for. As such, the many diverse experiences he went through in order to gain an understanding of life in the city were much larger and more thorough versions of the small scale version of the attempt of the mission team I

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