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, 12/09/20
December 9, 2020 “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” - Emily Dickinson, poet…
Published: Mon, 12/07/20
December 7, 2020 “When the Church tries to embody the rule of God in the forms of earthly power it may achieve that power, but it is no longer a sign…
Published: Fri, 12/04/20
December 4, 2020 "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that…
Published: Wed, 12/02/20
December 2, 2020 “In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.” - Ivan…
Published: Mon, 11/30/20
November 30, 2020 “We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.” -…
Published: Fri, 11/27/20
November 27, 2020 “As the church settled in various geographical areas and as it penetrated through a variety of cultures, it found e pression in…
Published: Mon, 11/23/20
November 23, 2020 “The gospel we teach most effectively is the one that we embody and walk out before our children, not the gospel that trips easily…
Published: Fri, 11/20/20
November 20, 2020 "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." - C.S. Lewis Sunday marks the anniversary of Lewis's…
Published: Mon, 11/16/20
November 16, 2020 “In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no…
Published: Fri, 11/13/20
November 13, 2020 “In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.” - St. Augustine, Today is the birthday of St.