When the Lord's House Closes

Melvin Delgado is a prolific researcher and author who is interested in cities and the community assets within them. Delgado focuses on many of these assets in the nearly 40 books to his credit-the most recent of which include Sanctuary Cities, Communities, and Organizations: A Nation at the Crossroads (Oxford University Press, 2018), Urban Youth Trauma: Using Community Interventions to Overcome Gun Violence (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019) and Community Health Workers in Action: The Efforts of "Promotores de Salud" in Bringing Health Care to Marginalized Communities (Oxford University Press, 2020). In addition, he has written more than 80 peer-reviewed journal articles. He recently retired from Boston University School of Social Work after over 40 years on the faculty.

• Chapter 1: OverviewChapter 2: Urban Community Practice RealmChapter 3: Social Forces Shaping Church Closings TrendsChapter 4: The Black ChurchChapter 5: The Latino ChurchChapter 6: Boston Case IllustrationChapter 7: Implications for Community Practice ResearchChapter 8: Implications for Community Practice EducationChapter 9: Implications for Community Practice References