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, 05/05/21
May 5, 2021 “Imagine if every church became a place where everyone is safe, but no one is comfortable. Imagine if every church became a place where we…
Published: Mon, 05/03/21
May 3, 2021 "Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. The desperate need today is…
Published: Fri, 04/30/21
April 28, 2021 “There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough.
Published: Wed, 04/28/21
April 28, 2021 “We who follow Jesus are working in wounds, working with wounds, and working through wounds.” - Willie James Jennings, theologian…
Published: Mon, 04/26/21
April 26, 2021 “The spiritual life, in other words, is not achieved by denying one part of life for the sake of another. The spiritual life is…
Published: Fri, 04/23/21
April 23, 2021 “Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.” - Willa Cather, novelist Tomorrow marks the anniversary of Willa Cather's…
Published: Wed, 04/21/21
April 21, 2021 “God never hurries. There are no deadlines against which [God] must work. Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and rela our…
Published: Mon, 04/19/21
April 19, 2021 “This is what language does: organize the world into manageable, and in some sense artificial, units that can then be inhabited and…
Published: Fri, 04/16/21
April 16, 2021 “We want so much, When perhaps we live best In the spaces between loves, That unconscious roving, The heart its own rough animal.
Published: Wed, 04/14/21
April 14, 2021 “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” - Rachel Carson,…