From Cultivating Communities and The Englewood Review of Books Every two weeks, we send out a newsletter featuring books and articles that help churches better understand the time and place in which they live, and that stir their imaginations about how to cultivate a deeper life together in their place.
Published: Sat, 01/27/18
January 27, 2018 “Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the…
Published: Fri, 01/26/18
January 26, 2018 “Grace is given not to them who speak [their faith] but to those who live their faith.” ― St. Gregory of Nazianzus. Yesterday was his…
Published: Wed, 01/24/18
January 24, 2018 “We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our…
Published: Tue, 01/23/18
January 23, 2018 “To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.” ― Alister McGrath, theologian, born on this…
Published: Sat, 01/20/18
January 20, 2018 “True contemplation is resistance.” ― Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet, born on this day. A Brief Video Intro to Ernesto Cardenal…
Published: Fri, 01/19/18
January 19, 2018 “There is no e quisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.” ― Edgar Allan Poe, who was born on this day, 1809 LISTEN…
Published: Thu, 01/18/18
January 18, 2018 “He said 'Love...as I have loved you.' We cannot love too much.” ― Amy Carmichael, missionary, who died on this day, 1951 Ebook /…
Published: Wed, 01/17/18
January 17, 2018 “Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.” ― Anne Bronte, novelist, who was born on this…
Published: Fri, 01/12/18
January 12, 2018 “Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.” ― Lorraine Hansberry, playwright who died on this day, 1965. For the Martin Luther King…
Published: Thu, 01/11/18
January 11, 2018 “Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. .... get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing…