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: Sat, 10/12/19
October 12, 2019 “Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And yet I…
Published: Wed, 10/09/19
October 9, 2019 “I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.” ―…
Published: Mon, 10/07/19
October 7, 2019 “In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, e plicitly, as a justification for discrimination, e…
Published: Sat, 10/05/19
October 5, 2019 “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious…
Published: Wed, 10/02/19
October 2, 2019 “I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors' defects --not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at…
Published: Thu, 09/26/19
September 26, 2019 “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.” ―…
Published: Mon, 09/23/19
September 23, 2019 “Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend…
Published: Sat, 09/21/19
September 21, 2019 “Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not…
Published: Wed, 09/18/19
September 18, 2019 “Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now…
Published: Fri, 09/13/19
September 13, 2019 “The Church, if it is to be the Church, must be the revelation of that divine Love which God 'poured out into our hearts.' Without…