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, 02/22/21
February 22, 2021 “Perhaps the most e traordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not…
Published: Fri, 02/19/21
February 19, 2021 “Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not…
Published: Wed, 02/17/21
February 17, 2021 “Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You…
Published: Mon, 02/15/21
February 15, 2021 “Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of…
Published: Fri, 02/12/21
February 12, 2021 “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” -…
Published: Wed, 02/10/21
February 10, 2021 “Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't…
Published: Mon, 02/08/21
February 8, 2021 “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: Fri, 02/05/21
February 5, 2021 “I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer,…
Published: Wed, 02/03/21
February 3, 2021 “To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.” - Simone Weil, philosopher Today is the…
Published: Mon, 02/01/21
February 2, 2021 “The assumption is that hope is a prerequisite for action. Without hope one becomes depressed and then unable to act. I want to…