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, 02/21/22
February 21, 2022 “The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care…
Published: Fri, 02/18/22
February 18, 2022 “I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is…
Published: Mon, 02/14/22
February 14, 2022 “For all his inner suffering, the narcissist has many traits that make for success in bureaucratic institutions, which put premium…
Published: Fri, 02/11/22
February 11, 2022 “Therefore I beg you, reader, not to rejoice too greatly if you have read much, but if you have understood much. Nor that you have…
Published: Mon, 02/07/22
February 7, 2022 "That peoples can no longer carry on authentic dialogue with one another is not only the most acute symptom of the pathology of our…
Published: Fri, 02/04/22
February 4, 2022 “Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has…
Published: Mon, 01/31/22
January 31, 2022 “The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own…
Published: Fri, 01/28/22
January 28, 2022 "When I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things, And learned that compromises wait Behind each hardly opened…
Published: Mon, 01/24/22
January 24, 2022 "[All] this time God has been trying to find me, to know me, and to love me. The question is not “How am I to find God?” but “How am…
Published: Fri, 01/21/22
January 21, 2022 “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the…