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, 01/24/20
January 24, 2020 “Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish.
Published: Tue, 01/21/20
January 21, 2020 “Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure…
Published: Wed, 01/15/20
January 15, 2020 "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of…
Published: Mon, 01/13/20
January 13, 2020 “For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if…
Published: Fri, 01/10/20
January 10, 2020 “In the Eucharist we can find all the dimensions of communion: God communicates himself to us, we enter into communion with him, the…
Published: Wed, 01/08/20
January 8, 2020 “Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how…
Published: Mon, 01/06/20
January 6, 2020 “Christians were never meant to be normal. We’ve always been holy troublemakers, we’ve always been creators of uncertainty, agents of…
Published: Sat, 01/04/20
January 4, 2020 “I believe that now is the time to invoke and awaken beauty because in a sense there is nowhere else left to go and because the…
Published: Mon, 12/30/19
December 30, 2019 “Risk should not reflect a celebration of foolishness but a freedom from fear.” ― Luci Shaw, poet YESTERDAY was her birthday! ***…
Published: Thu, 12/26/19
December 26, 2019 “I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should…