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, 11/09/18
November 9, 2018 “ [Conversation] is not just about words passing between mouths and ears. It’s about shared life.... Listening is about bringing our…
Published: Thu, 11/08/18
November 8, 2018 “Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.” ― Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic…
Published: Wed, 11/07/18
November 7, 2018 “You tell me that silence is nearer to peace than poems but if for my gift I brought you silence (for I know silence) you would say…
Published: Fri, 11/02/18
November 2, 2018 “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ― George Bernard Shaw,…
Published: Thu, 11/01/18
November 1, 2018 “Would I might wake St. Francis in you all, Brother of birds and trees, God’s Troubadour, Blinded with weeping for the sad and poor;…
Published: Tue, 10/30/18
October 30, 2018 “At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can…
Published: Fri, 10/26/18
October 26, 2018 “I sometimes wonder if all other animals, all plants, maybe even stars and rivers and rocks, dwell in steady awareness of God, while…
Published: Thu, 10/25/18
October 25, 2018 “But the problem with readers, the idea we're given of reading is that the model of a reader is the person watching a film, or…
Published: Fri, 10/19/18
October 19, 2018 “Forget the damned motor car and build cities for lovers and friends.” ― Lewis Mumford, urban historian and sociologist. Today is his…
Published: Thu, 10/18/18
October 18, 2018 “The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we…