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: Tue, 08/17/21
August 17, 2021 “When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true--such things,…
Published: Fri, 08/13/21
August 13, 2021 “A heavenly light more brilliant than all others sheds its radiance everywhere, and he who was begotten before the morning star and…
Published: Wed, 08/11/21
August 11, 2021 “We do not build the kingdom of God on earth by our own efforts (however assisted by grace); the most we can do through genuine…
Published: Mon, 08/09/21
August 9, 2021 “To suffer and to be happy although suffering, to have one’s feet on the earth, to walk on the dirty and rough paths of this earth and…
Published: Fri, 08/06/21
August 6, 2021 “It is ironic that America, with its history of injustice to the poor, especially the black man and the Indian, prides itself on being…
Published: Wed, 08/04/21
August 4, 2021 “To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first…
Published: Tue, 08/03/21
August 3, 2021 “You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me…
Published: Fri, 07/30/21
July 30, 2021 “Love ought to manifest itself in deeds rather than in words.... love consists in a mutual sharing of goods, for e ample, the lover…
Published: Wed, 07/28/21
July 28, 2021 "In the silence, whether we listen to the creation around us, the words of revelation, or the deepest stirrings of our own hearts, we…
Published: Mon, 07/26/21
July 26, 2021 “The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God who was vulnerable enough…