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Environment, Spirituality, and our Faith in Place (opens the original)
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While you’re connecting with our Cultivating Communities work here on the internet, one of our hopes and goals is always to be connecting face-to-face with folks whenever possible. That’s why today, we’re excited to tell you about an event happening here locally in Indianapolis, but also all over the country!The 2026 Annual Environment and Spirituality SummitSeptember 28-29, 2026Online and in 40+ CitiesThe Summit’s theme is Grounded Resistance</str
Do our worship gatherings actually do the work we expect them to do? (opens the original)
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About a week ago, my friend wrote a superb article published in Christianity Today, entitled: “Wendell Berry, ‘Bad-weather Church-goer.’” In Berry’s work, many church leaders have found wisdom for being a church community, and Drew wrestled with the tension between that reality and Berry’s own ambivalence toward the Sunday gathering at
Our Own Itineraries (opens the original)
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Well, it is that time! Today, we’ll share the final reflection from Jim Aldrich about A Secular Age by Charles Taylor.We began this series, believe it or not, in January of this year! (Every post in the series can be seen here.)<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Secular-Age-Charles-Taylor/dp/0674986911/ref=sr_1_1?crid=301BHVKIWQKIK&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.2sBh_E2jsZDNJbVtN-04wBYtTgShQ_15aKx3I15qG_Poa-S71D09Uv9I_7MiYb27b9q5yNjppGVXsW2aLVWm_iz5_nfmgBB3dibkbPb9o7NzDiMquT5q45-Av55H48cSFKpSxScYT2Nb7UDQ52YHy5Iw
Read, Consider, Do (opens the original)
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Welcome to September, friends of Cultivating Communities! Below you’ll find a round-up of essays, book reviews, and other links worth spending some time with. Next week, we’ll be back with another post about A Secular Age. If this post is cut off by your email provider, please click through to read on Substack.Cultivating Communities is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or pai
The Witness of Wendell Berry (opens the original)
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Wendell Berry died yesterday, at the age of 92.For the past 60+ years, Berry lived, worked the land, and wrote from a small farm in Henry County Kentucky. He wrote fiction, essays, and poetry that explored themes of human interdependence with all creation, remaining human in an increasingly technological age, and the virtues of a life lived in community.Berry himself had a complicated relationship with organized Christianity, often preferring to spend his Sundays in the woods writing his Sabbath
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