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: Wed, 12/26/18
December 26, 2018 “If we ceased to desire the goods of our neighbor, we would never commit murder or adultery or theft or false witness. If we…
Published: Mon, 12/24/18
December 24, 2018 “Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing…
Published: Thu, 12/20/18
December 20, 2018 “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” ― John Steinbeck,…
Published: Mon, 12/17/18
December 17, 2018 “Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.” ― Dorothy Sayers,…
Published: Fri, 12/14/18
December 14, 2018 “God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening, and what Mystery,…
Published: Thu, 12/13/18
December 13, 2018 “In the radiance of His light the world is not commonplace. The very floor we stand on is a miracle of atoms whizzing about in…
Published: Wed, 12/12/18
December 12, 2018 “If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing god invents” ― Robert Browning, poet who died on this day in…
Published: Fri, 12/07/18
December 7, 2018 “That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.” ― Willa…
Published: Tue, 12/04/18
December 4, 2018 “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that…
Published: Mon, 12/03/18
December 3, 2018 “Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more…