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, 01/29/21
January 29, 2021 “Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of…
Published: Wed, 01/27/21
January 27, 2021 “Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance…
Published: Mon, 01/25/21
January 25, 2021 “Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.” - Henri…
Published: Fri, 01/22/21
January 22, 2021 “We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our…
Published: Wed, 01/20/21
January 20, 2021 "You can't be with God and be neutral. True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, gazing at clouds is resistance I found out in…
Published: Mon, 01/18/21
January 18, 2021 “Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem,…
Published: Fri, 01/15/21
January 15, 2021 “We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There…
Published: Wed, 01/13/21
January 13, 2021 “Man is essentially a story-telling animal, but a teller of stories that aspire to truth.” - Alasdair MacIntyre, philosopher Today is…
Published: Mon, 01/11/21
January 11, 2021 "When the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living…
Published: Fri, 01/08/21
January 8, 2021 "The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-…