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: Thu, 09/28/17
September 28, 2017 “A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” ― W.H. Auden, poet, Tomorrow, Sept.29, marks…
Published: Wed, 09/27/17
September 27, 2017 “Charity is the cement which binds communities to God and persons to one another ” ― St. Vincent DePaul, Today is his feast day New…
Published: Tue, 09/26/17
September 26, 2017 “Do I dare / Disturb the universe?” ― T.S. Eliot, Poet, who was born on this day, 1888 LISTEN to T.S. Eliot reading his classic…
Published: Fri, 09/15/17
September 15, 2017 “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.” ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian novelist, who…
Published: Thu, 09/14/17
September 14, 2017 “In essence, my body is my relationship to the world, to others; it is my life as communion and as mutual relationship. Without e…
Published: Mon, 09/11/17
September 11, 2017 “But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the…
Published: Fri, 09/08/17
September 8, 2017 “The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of…
Published: Thu, 09/07/17
September 7, 2017 “The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not…
Published: Wed, 09/06/17
September 6, 2017 “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the e panding universe.” ― Madeleine L'Engle…
Published: Fri, 09/01/17
September 1, 2017 “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien Tomorrow (Sept. 2)…