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Work together
At Englewood, we think of ourselves as a real community, not primarily as a religious institution. Communities share a common life with common hopes, the valuing of common virtues and engaged with common work. Our large strategic initiatives are expressions of our common hopes, virtues and work.
However, these initiatives are not the exclusive expression of our common life. We have found numerous ways to be a permeable presence in our beloved neighborhood and city. Our life of love and care for one another flows naturally into our neighborhood, and the life of our neighbors flows naturally into Englewood. The way of Jesus compels us to truly love neighbor and enemy in concrete and tangible ways.
Englewood Community Development Corporation (ECDC)
ECDC works to provide an excellent quality of life for those in our neighborhood and the surrounding community. This plays out in providing and managing affordable and accessible housing for neighbors, recruiting and expanding small businesses, working with individuals to find fair employment opportunities, and advocating for amenities such as recreational facilities, multi-modal transit, environmental equity, and neighborhood-based arts and creative place-making projects.
DayStar Childcare &
Infant Learning Center
DayStar provides a safe, loving, developmentally appropriate environment for children of diverse backgrounds throughout the greater Indianapolis area. As an expression of Englewood Christian Church, DayStar provides quality, affordable early childhood education for families with children 6 weeks to 12 years of age.
Cultivating Communities
Rooted in our experience as Englewood Christian Church and Englewood CDC, we work with congregations across our city and across North America who desire to cultivate a deeper life together that overflows into tangible love for the communities in which they are embedded.
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This work flows from the conviction that congregations do not exist for their own end; rather, they exist to share civic responsibility and be a gift to those they live among. Our work with congregations is therefore centered on three practices that have been transformational for us as we have sought to embody this conviction:
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dialogue,
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discernment, and
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demonstration of the commitment to community health.
Englewood Review of Books
Launched in 2008, The Englewood Review of Books is an online book review focused on books related to the themes of community, mission, imagination, and reconciliation. We hope to cultivate a vision of Reading for the Common Good, a way of reading driven primarily not by one’s personal desires, but by an attentiveness to communities in which we are embedded: church, family, neighborhood, workplace. The books reviewed are not necessarily from the “Christian market,” but we believe they are vital to fostering Christian faithfulness in our Post-Christian age. Our weekly poetry aligns with both the Revised Common Lectionary and Narrative Lectionary.​Our podcast is an ongoing, thoughtful conversation about the reading life brought to you by editors and contributors of the ERB. Hosts and panelists discuss how they engage in reading, what it means to read well, and the books and writers they enjoy. Expect lively discussions about books from all genres, from those who care about reading well.
