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, 12/28/18
December 28, 2018 “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to…
Published: Wed, 12/26/18
December 26, 2018 “If we ceased to desire the goods of our neighbor, we would never commit murder or adultery or theft or false witness. If we…
Published: Mon, 12/24/18
December 24, 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…
Published: Thu, 12/20/18
December 20, 2018 “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” ― John Steinbeck,…
Published: Mon, 12/17/18
December 17, 2018 “Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.” ― Dorothy Sayers,…
Published: Fri, 12/14/18
December 14, 2018 “God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening, and what Mystery,…
Published: Thu, 12/13/18
December 13, 2018 “In the radiance of His light the world is not commonplace. The very floor we stand on is a miracle of atoms whizzing about in…
Published: Wed, 12/12/18
December 12, 2018 “If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing god invents” ― Robert Browning, poet who died on this day in…
Published: Fri, 12/07/18
December 7, 2018 “That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.” ― Willa…
Published: Tue, 12/04/18
December 4, 2018 “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that…