Unless the Lord Builds the House – helping your church reflect on the housing crisis

In 2019, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, launched his Commission on Housing, Church and Community to bring a Christian perspective to the housing crisis. One of its main aims is to get churches up and down the country thinking about how Christian values apply to housing, because they can play a crucial part in meeting their local area’s housing need.

At the same time, there’s been a lot of thought on this area in the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis has spoken about our “human ecology”: the way our physical environment – whether urban, suburban, or rural – reflects and shapes our relationships with each other, and ultimately with God.

That’s why we’ve worked with the Centre for Theology and Community and the Roman Catholic Church to produce Unless the Lord Builds the House – a new five-week course of prayer, reflection and action, on Christian faith and housing. Churches across denominations can explore the emerging theological study of housing and, crucially, plan to put their learning into action.

Each 90-minute session has a mix of Bible study, video stories and discussion. It ends with suggestions for prayer and ideas for action – some of which can be taken between sessions, while others would require more long-term planning and commitment.

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