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: Mon, 07/20/20
July 20, 2020 “Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the…
Published: Sat, 07/18/20
July 18, 2020 “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house…
Published: Mon, 07/13/20
July 13, 2020 “Everything is a gift. The degree to which we are awake to this truth is a measure of our gratefullness, and gratefullness is a measure…
Published: Fri, 07/10/20
July 10, 2020 “Almighty God, give me wisdom to perceive You, intelligence to understand You, diligence to seek You, patience to wait for You, eyes to…
Published: Wed, 07/08/20
July 8, 2020 “Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” ― Edmund Burke, Philosopher Tomorrow marks the anniversary of Edmund…
Published: Tue, 07/07/20
July 7, 2020 "Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common." ― Satchel Paige, Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher…
Published: Fri, 07/03/20
July 3, 2020 “Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.” ― Franz Kafka, novelist Today is Franz Kafka's…
Published: Wed, 07/01/20
July 1, 2020 “The new heaven and new earth will be a place of economic bounty. All people will have access to the resources needed for their economic…
Published: Mon, 06/29/20
June 29, 2020 “It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing…
Published: Fri, 06/26/20
June 26, 2020 “don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to e plore, not to give the…