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: Fri, 02/23/18
February 23, 2018 “Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched, -- criticism of writers by readers, of government…
Published: Thu, 02/22/18
February 22, 2018 “I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: 'Go down again - I dwell among the people.'” ―…
Published: Fri, 02/16/18
February 16, 2018 “If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan properly for the future.” ― Chaim Potok, Novelist Tomorrow is…
Published: Thu, 02/15/18
February 15, 2018 “I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of the land...
Published: Wed, 02/14/18
February 14, 2018 “Love is enough: though the World be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining” ― William Morris, poet.
Published: Fri, 02/09/18
February 9, 2018 “Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't…
Published: Thu, 02/08/18
February 8, 2018 “That peoples can no longer carry on authentic dialogue with one another is not only the most acute symptom of the pathology of our…
Published: Wed, 02/07/18
February 7, 2018 “Food is a gift of God given to all creatures for the purposes of life’s nurture, sharing, and celebration. When it is done in the…
Published: Fri, 02/02/18
February 2, 2018 “Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people—the beauty within themselves.” ― Langston Hughes, poet. Yesterday…
Published: Wed, 01/31/18
January 31, 2018 “My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do…