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, 03/01/19
March 1, 2019 “I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now I've tried to articulate e actly what I felt to be the…
Published: Wed, 02/27/19
February 27, 2019 “The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.” ― Parker Palmer, Quaker…
Published: Mon, 02/25/19
February 25, 2019 “Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.” ― Jane Hirshfield, poet, yesterday was her birthday *** Kindle…
Published: Fri, 02/22/19
February 22, 2019 “To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case, we…
Published: Wed, 02/20/19
February 20, 2019 “The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care…
Published: Mon, 02/18/19
February 18, 2019 “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” ― Toni Morrison, novelist today…
Published: Sat, 02/16/19
February 16, 2019 “Everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the…
Published: Fri, 02/15/19
February 15, 2019 “Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. E plore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting…
Published: Wed, 02/13/19
February 13, 2019 “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society…
Published: Mon, 02/11/19
February 11, 2019 "I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold…