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, 04/13/20
April 13, 2020 “I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in…
Published: Fri, 04/10/20
April 10, 2020 “Christianity has adjusted itself much too easily to the worship of power. It should give much more offence, more shock to the world,…
Published: Wed, 04/08/20
April 8, 2020 “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.” ― William Wordsworth, poet…
Published: Mon, 04/06/20
April 6, 2020 “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” ― Maya Angelou…
Published: Mon, 03/30/20
March 30, 2020 “Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to…
Published: Fri, 03/27/20
March 27, 2020 “Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the…
Published: Wed, 03/25/20
March 25, 2020 “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” ― Flannery O'Connor, novelist Today is Flannery O'Connor's birthday…
Published: Mon, 03/23/20
March 23, 2020 “For the church, the many abuses of human life, liberty, and dignity are a heartfelt suffering. The church, entrusted with the earth’s…
Published: Fri, 03/20/20
March 20, 2020 “Let’s sit here in hard truth and easy beauty, in the tensions of the Now and the Not Yet of the Kingdom of God, and let us discover…
Published: Wed, 03/18/20
March 18, 2020 “All a poet can do today is warn.” ― Wilfred Owen, poet Today is the poet's birthday, (b. 1893) Two Important War Poems by Wilfred…