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: Sat, 04/13/19
April 13, 2019 “Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.” ―…
Published: Fri, 04/12/19
April 12, 2019 “For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes,…
Published: Wed, 04/10/19
April 10, 2019 “The basic fact is that Christianity as it was born in the mind of this Jewish thinker and teacher appears as a technique of survival…
Published: Mon, 04/08/19
April 8, 2019 “That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the…
Published: Sat, 04/06/19
April 6, 2019 “Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as…
Published: Wed, 04/03/19
April 3, 2019 “Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.” ― George Herbert, poet Herbert was born on this day in…
Published: Mon, 04/01/19
April 1, 2019 “Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.” ― John Donne, poet Yesterday marked the anniversary of the poet's…
Published: Fri, 03/29/19
March 29, 2019 “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” ― Virginia Woolf, novelist Yesterday marked the…
Published: Wed, 03/27/19
March 27, 2019 “Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the…
Published: Fri, 03/22/19
March 22, 2018 “I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words…