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, 06/24/20
June 24, 2020 “Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and…
Published: Mon, 06/22/20
June 22, 2020 “First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish…
Published: Fri, 06/19/20
June 19, 2020 “All of humanity's problems stem from [our] inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” ― Blaise Pascal, philosopher / mathematician…
Published: Wed, 06/17/20
June 17, 2020 “In the life of everyone there is a limited number of e periences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die;…
Published: Mon, 06/15/20
June 15, 2020 “You have to be a bit of a dreamer to imagine a world where love trumps hate--but I don't think being a dreamer is all that bad. Joel…
Published: Fri, 06/12/20
June 12, 2020 "That peoples can no longer carry on authentic dialogue with one another is not only the most acute symptom of the pathology of our…
Published: Wed, 06/10/20
June 10, 2020 “O Lord, grant us that love which can never die, which will enkindle our lamps but not e tinguish them, so that they may shine in us and…
Published: Mon, 06/08/20
June 8, 2020 “What I love about the ministry of Jesus is that he identified the poor as blessed and the rich as needy...and then he went and…
Published: Fri, 06/05/20
June 5, 2020 “The country is in deep trouble. We've forgotten that a rich life consists fundamentally of serving others, trying to leave the world a…
Published: Wed, 06/03/20
June 3, 2020 "I knew that [the Klan’s] really wasn’t the most dangerous, vicious kind of racism. Theirs you could see and deal with, and if they broke…