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, 01/17/22
January 17, 2022 “Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air, a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm…
Published: Fri, 01/14/22
January 14, 2022 “The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. A true…
Published: Mon, 01/10/22
January 10, 2022 “Culture cannot be a monolithically universal phenomenon without some kind of demonic imposition of one culture over the rest of…
Published: Fri, 01/07/22
January 7, 2022 “Love is like the sea. It's a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and it's different with…
Published: Mon, 01/03/22
January 3, 2022 “For Christians, then, the question is not “Who gets the Bible right?” The question is and has always been, “Who gets Jesus right?”…
Published: Wed, 12/29/21
December 29, 2021 “Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed…
Published: Thu, 12/23/21
December 23, 2021 “There is immense silent agony in the world, and the task of man is to be a voice for the plundered poor, to prevent the desecration…
Published: Fri, 12/17/21
December 17, 2021 “This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as…
Published: Wed, 12/15/21
December 15, 2021 “They can be like the sun, words. They can do for the heart what light can for a field.” - St. John of the Cross From: The Poems of…
Published: Mon, 12/13/21
December 13, 2021 “[The] most important and most profound question of the Christian faith must be, How and from where did death arise, and why has it…