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: Mon, 06/28/21
June 28, 2021 “To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to a place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.”…
Published: Fri, 06/25/21
June 25, 2021 “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Published: Wed, 06/23/21
June 23, 2021 “Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an a e you break down doors with in an emergency.
Published: Mon, 06/21/21
June 21, 2021 “Beware: At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease.” - Octavia Butler, novelist…
Published: Wed, 06/16/21
June 16, 2021 “I am all for churches being a part of the nonviolent marches and protests that have happened in the wake of violent killings, but these…
Published: Fri, 06/11/21
June 11, 2021 “In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.” - Anne Frank, writer / Holocaust victim Tomorrow marks the…
Published: Wed, 06/09/21
June 7, 2021 “If there is no friendship with [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation,…
Published: Mon, 06/07/21
June 7, 2021 “I believe the church is called to the slow and difficult work of healing. We are called to enter into one another’s pain, anoint it as…
Published: Fri, 06/04/21
June 4, 2021 "[Jesus ] talked of such things as a cup of cold water. Ah, but we must build a global sprinkler system. And while we are appointing…
Published: Wed, 06/02/21
June 2, 2021 “To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on…