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, 03/28/22
March 25, 2022 “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” - Virginia Woolf, novelist (from The Moment and…
Published: Fri, 03/25/22
March 25, 2022 “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.” - Flannery O'Connor, novelist (from The…
Published: Tue, 03/22/22
March 22, 2022 “Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit…
Published: Fri, 03/18/22
March 18, 2022 “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: Mon, 03/14/22
March 14, 2022 “A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we…
Published: Fri, 03/11/22
March 11, 2022 “I imagine Lent for you and for me as a great departure from the greedy, an ious anti-neighborliness of our economy, a great departure…
Published: Mon, 03/07/22
March 7, 2022 “Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not e change ideas, they e change images. They do not argue…
Published: Fri, 03/04/22
March 4, 2022 “It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” William Carlos Williams,…
Published: Wed, 03/02/22
March 2, 2022 “Vocation at its deepest level is, 'This is something I can't not do, for reasons I'm unable to e plain to anyone else and don't fully…
Published: Fri, 02/25/22
February 25, 2022 “Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.” Jane Hirshfield, poet From her book, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind…