Cultivating is all about integrating our faith, reason, and imagination. It is about finding ways to live with a deeper rhythm of the seasons both in a chronological year, and in the larger range of our lives. Life unfolds for us in seasons. Times of beginning, of planting, of tending, of harvesting, of putting away, of resting, of Sabbath. Recognising and honouring the seasons of our lives becomes an invitation to live on a larger scale even while we enter a way of living simpler. Taking the path of the “good way” or “ancient paths” spoken of in Jeremiah 6.16 is a quiet call to get off the frantic highway of our current culture and live our life in this world by the rhythm of time outside of it. It is there that we flourish, find peace, bear good fruit, live deeply, love well. 

Exploring, celebrating, and entering into seasonal practices of goodness, truth and beauty.

Welcome to the inaugural issue of Cultivating. 

from the founder

With each unfolding seed, with every Spring,
He breathes the rumour of His resurrection,
As birdsong calls your hidden heart to sing.
So may this season be His benediction,
To lift your love, and bid your prayer take wing,
To thaw your frozen hope, to warm your mind,
or Spring has come! Can Heaven be far behind?

- malcom guite