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: Wed, 05/08/19
May 8, 2019 “The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are…
Published: Mon, 05/06/19
May 6, 2019 “How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.” ― Henry David Thoreau Thoreau died on this day in 1862... Four…
Published: Sat, 05/04/19
May 4, 2019 “My theological endeavor is: let's look for the commonality rather than all these differences and being afraid of all these other people…
Published: Fri, 05/03/19
May 3, 2019 “The desperate need today is not for a greater number of intelligent people, or gifted people, but for deep people.” ― Richard J. Foster…
Published: Wed, 05/01/19
May 1, 2019 “Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak.” ― Mitali Perkins, novelist Yesterday was her birthday... *** Kindle Ebook Deal of…
Published: Mon, 04/29/19
April 29, 2019 “One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard…
Published: Sat, 04/27/19
April 27, 2019 “Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . . It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than…
Published: Mon, 04/22/19
April 22, 2019 “Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.” ― William Shakespeare, Tomorrow marks the anniversary of his death in 1616 *** Five of…
Published: Fri, 04/19/19
April 19, 2019 “This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and…
Published: Wed, 04/17/19
April 17, 2019 “Wasn’t it strange that a poem, written in my vocabulary and as a result of my own thoughts or observations, could, when it was…