Eric O. Jacobsen, a pastor in Tacoma, Washington, got his PhD in Theology and the Built Environment (it makes me so happy that one can get a doctorate in that) dug into these issues in a book called Sidewalks in the Kingdom. He writes, “In the Christian imagination, where you live gets equal billing with what you believe. Geography and theology are biblical bedfellows. Everything that the creator God does, and therefore everything that we do, since we are his creatures and can hardly do anything in any other way, is in place.”181 Place matters. Where we live, and how we live there, affects us
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