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: Fri, 12/10/21
December 10, 2021 “The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out…
Published: Wed, 12/08/21
December 8, 2021 “But if the biblical story is true, the kind of certainty proper to a human being will be one which rests on the fidelity of God, not…
Published: Mon, 12/06/21
December 6, 2021 “For a lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us everyday” - Evelyn Underhill From her book: Mysticism Today is…
Published: Fri, 12/03/21
December 3, 2021 “Much suffering has always been man-made: history is the record of enslavement and e ploitation. It tells of war, and of the pillage,…
Published: Wed, 12/01/21
December 1, 2021 "Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely…
Published: Mon, 11/29/21
November 29, 2021 “But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the…
Published: Wed, 11/24/21
November 24, 2021 “I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far,…
Published: Mon, 11/22/21
November 22, 2021 “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of…
Published: Fri, 11/19/21
November 19, 2021 “If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, ... I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment,…
Published: Wed, 11/17/21
November 17, 2021 “It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and…