The world’s cities understand that the future belongs to right-brained people, even if churches don’t know what to do with them. The pursuit of what Richard Florida calls “the creative class”17 has become the holy grail of urban growth and development. The difference is that cities are chasing the creative class “as if it were a high-stakes, zero-sum game,” whereas the church is ostracizing and outlawing its creatives and artists. In a culture that every year spends billions generating competing, contrasting images to the gospel, almost every one of which is a lie, it is imperative that
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