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, 03/20/19
March 20, 2019 “And this is where I learned that sometimes our most holy mountain-moving faith looks more like spending our whole lives making that…
Published: Mon, 03/18/19
March 18, 2019 “What passing bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifle's rapid rattle Can…
Published: Sat, 03/16/19
March 16, 2019 “You should avoid seeing too much of yourself anywhere: in the outside world, in others, in the imagined worlds that give you shelter.”…
Published: Fri, 03/15/19
March 15, 2019 “To love and to work is to pray.” ― Liberty Hyde Bailey, botanist / agrarian writer, Today marks the anniversary of his birth (1858)...
Published: Wed, 03/13/19
March 13, 2019 “Just as surely as one of the functions of religion is to inform, counsel, and temper the society in which it e ists, just so surely is…
Published: Mon, 03/11/19
March 11, 2019 “Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the an iety system of…
Published: Fri, 03/08/19
March 8, 2019 “Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely…
Published: Wed, 03/06/19
March 6, 2019 Ash Wednesday "Ash Wednesday is full of joy... The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust. God…
Published: Mon, 03/04/19
March 4, 2019 “It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” ― William Carlos Williams,…
Published: Sat, 03/02/19
March 2, 2019 “Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.” ― George Herbert, poet Yesterday marked the anniversary…