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, 05/04/18
May 4, 2018 “My theological endeavor is: let's look for the commonality rather than all these differences and being afraid of all these other people…
Published: Fri, 04/27/18
April 27, 2018 “In the Episcopal Church I find a healthy sense of unity and diversity. In this tradition we recognize that that which holds the church…
Published: Wed, 04/25/18
April 25, 2018 “Not TV or illegal drugs but the automobile has been the chief destroyer of American communities.” ― Jane Jacobs, urbanist, who died on…
Published: Fri, 04/20/18
April 20, 2018 “Don't sign your name between worlds, surmount the manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.” ― Paul Celan, poet, who…
Published: Wed, 04/18/18
April 17, 2018 “What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” ― Gabriel García Márquez, who died on…
Published: Fri, 04/06/18
April 6, 2018 “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” ― William Wordsworth, poet Tomorrow is his birthday (b. 1770) Wordsworth's poem:…
Published: Wed, 04/04/18
April 4, 2018 “We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love… There is…
Published: Sat, 03/31/18
March 29, 2018 “The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.” ― Johann Sebastian…
Published: Thu, 03/29/18
March 29, 2018 “If there are no books. There is no civilization.” ― Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization. Today is his birthday.
Published: Wed, 03/28/18
March 28, 2018 “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” ― Virginia Woolf, one of the most significant…