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Over at Urban Paradoxes, Frank Mills is asking questions based on his meditations on two old testament verses: "Where there is no vision, the people perish" (Proverbs 29: 18) and "Your old men will dream dreams, And your young men will see visions" (Joel 2:28):

1. Do the people of our poorer urban neighborhoods lack shared neighborhood vision because their circumstances rob them of the capacity of vision, or have urban social agencies and urban planners bought into this myth, perhaps unconsciously, to justify their agendas? 2. What would happen if urban planners and urban social agencies came together to assist in the creation of shared neighborhood vision and then allowed it to form future direction, both for solving urban issues and creating sustainable urban neighborhoods? 3. Lastly, given that these passages are from the bible, what is the role of faith communities in creating a vision for urban sustainability? How do we motivate faith communities to assist in the creation of such a vision in their neighborhoods?

Click through to Frank's blog and leave comments. You might also read around that chapter in Joel here.