Cultivation is a lost art for most of us. It requires paying attention—understanding each person and thing in its proper way. It requires love—viewing everything as the Creator does; not just as it is but as it can grow to be. And it requires agency—viewing ourselves not as a scourge upon nature but as people designed to be a blessing to it. In this chapter of our series, we will explore how a posture of cultivation equips us to create as God made us to create.

Each month during our 2022 “Why We Create” series, we will explore one theme within the overall topic; with teaching in the form of essays, with stories that expand our imaginations to encounter this part of God’s truth, and with a dialogue of subsequent conversations and art. To browse the continuing series, visit its homepage here.




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Cultivating Appreciation for Other Art Forms
Cultivating Appreciation for Other Art Forms

Sometimes you try to convince people to love what you love. And sometimes, other people try to convince you to like what they like. What keeps us from liking some art forms? How can we learn to cultivate an appreciation for the art forms that are not our first loves?

How Gardens Teach Us to Cultivate (with Christina Brown and Amy Lee) (S3 E18)
How Gardens Teach Us to Cultivate (with Christina Brown and Amy Lee) (S3 E18)

Christina Brown and Amy Lee share about the art of gardening and God's story.

Interview: Nicole Beck on Portraiture
Interview: Nicole Beck on Portraiture

What’s in a face? What’s in a painting of a face that isn’t in a photograph? Nicole Beck, a portrait artist based in Colorado Springs, talks about why she is drawn to painting faces, how she learned to paint, and the special significance that can be found in an image of a person’s face.