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, 07/26/19
July 26, 2019 “The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough…
Published: Wed, 07/24/19
July 24, 2019 “The church does not e ist to provide an ethos for democracy or any other form of social organization, but stands as a political…
Published: Mon, 07/22/19
July 22, 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, 07/19/19
July 19, 2019 “Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the…
Published: Wed, 07/17/19
July 17, 2019 “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house…
Published: Mon, 07/15/19
July 15, 2019 “I will bring you a whole person and you will bring me a whole person and we will have us twice as much of love and everything.” ― Mari…
Published: Wed, 07/10/19
July 10, 2019 “If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that…
Published: Mon, 07/08/19
July 8, 2019 “In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who…
Published: Fri, 07/05/19
July 5, 2019 “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” ― William Faulkner, novelist, Tomorrow (July 6th) marks the…
Published: Wed, 07/03/19
July 3, 2019 "What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross…