ISSUE No. 54 | FEBRUARY 2025
WELCOME
If you’re new to CULTIVARE we welcome you! CULTIVARE is a monthly field guide for life and faith, brought to you by TEND. Each month we explore a specific “field” – a topic or theme through which we seek to cultivate contemplation, engagement, and deeper understanding. Our guiding questions are:
What are you cultivating in your life?
What fruit do you want your life to bear?
Each issue of CULTIVARE is structured into three parts:
Cultivate: Examines a specific “Field” or facet of life and offers questions to unearth and challenge our held perspective; along with concise kernels of truth which we call “Seeds.”
Irrigate: Explores the ways we nurture our understanding, which varies from individual to individual. We offer six means of irrigation: Art, Poetry, Profile, Film, Essay, and Books.
Germinate: Encourages practical ways to engage in becoming more fruitful and free in our lives.
Our name, CULTIVARE, in Spanish means “I will cultivate.” We hope each issue of our field guide will encourage you to do just that – cultivate new thoughts, actions, faith, hope, and fruitful living. We invite you to dig in and DIG DEEP!
FIELD
For we are partners working together for God, and you are God's field.
(I Corinthians 3:9)
This month we are starting our first-ever series – a Nine-Part Series – on the Fruit of the Spirit. For those unfamiliar with or foggy on the concept of the Fruit of the Spirit, the term comes from the book of Galatians, specifically Galatians 5:22-23: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control; against such things there is no law (ESV). As we review and reflect on that list, we readily see that all nine “fruit” are precious and powerful – they all have the ability to nourish, heal, and enrich our souls and our world.
For the next nine months, we will focus our attention on one “fruit” each month. We start this month with LOVE – the force behind all the fruit – and the greatest impetus for good, health, harmony, and positive change. The origin of that love is God, who created and formed our world out of love and birthed each of us out of His unending love. Therefore, we can proclaim and practice what the Apostle John captured so well: We love because he first loved us. (1 John 4:19)
In this issue we feature an original essay by author Andrew De Cort entitled, “The Fruit of Love in a Hardening Ecosystem.” We spotlight the book Bold Love which helps us understand how best to love those who have hurt us and caused us pain. Our profile is of educator Leo Buscaglia, whose university course, Love 101, became so popular it spurred a movement. And our artist of the month is the gifted Russian artist Marc Chagall.
When thinking about love, we may be tempted to view life and our formation through a romantic or rose-colored lens. But, how might we extend and experience love in our unfulfilling jobs, our dysfunctional families, our addicted loved ones, our political polarization, our hurting communities? As we explore the theme of love and the fruit of the Spirit, may we be encouraged and emboldened by the words of author Wayne Jacobsen: The fruit of the Spirit is not what we can make ourselves do for a moment, but what God makes us to be for a lifetime. Do your work in each of us, Lord, for the building and blessing of your kingdom. Amen. (DG)
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But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. (Psalm 86:15 ESV)
One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:28-34 NIV)
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
(1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV)
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God; everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love. God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us, and his love is perfected in us. (1 John 4:7-12 NRSV)
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SEEDS
A handful of quotes to contemplate and cultivate into your life
What does it mean to love? It means to empty yourself of self and be filled with God.
(St. Augustine of Hippo)
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Only love creates. Hatred destroys. Love is a creative force because it builds up and unites; hatred divides and kills. True love is always a sacrifice. (St. Maximilian Kolbe)
I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God. (Wendell Berry)
I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that he is indeed our Master. (John Newton)
God does not need us to do great things. He needs us to do small things with great love. (Mother Theresa)
Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.
(Henri Nouwen)
Fruit is always the miraculous, the created; it is never the result of willing, but always a growth. The Fruit of the Spirit is a gift of God, and only He can produce it. They who bear it know as little about it as the tree knows of its fruit. They know only the power of Him on whom their life depends. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
The love we feel for the splendor of the heavens, the plains, the sea, and the mountains, for the silence of nature which is borne in upon us by thousands of tiny sounds, for the breath of the winds or the warmth of the sun, this love of which every human being has at least an inkling, is an incomplete, painful love, because it is felt for things incapable of responding, that is to say for matter. Men want to turn this same love toward a being who is like themselves and capable of answering to their love, of saying yes, of surrendering... The longing to love the beauty of the world in a human being is essentially the longing for the Incarnation. (Simone Weil)
Love has its speed. It is an inner speed. It is a spiritual speed. It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed. It is "slow” yet it is lord over all other speeds since it is the speed of love. It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice or not, whether we are currently hit by a storm or not, at three miles an hour. It is the speed we walk and therefore it is the speed the love of God walks. (Kosuke Koyama)
ART
Marc Chagall
By Greg Ehlert
Born the oldest of nine children into a poor Jewish family in Russia in 1887, the award-winning artist, Marc Chagall, developed an anti-rationalist framework for understanding the world. Concerning his art, he said, If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. Chagall received training in modern art primarily in Europe but also the United States. His works are replete with vibrant colors, dreamy/metaphorical themes, and profound spiritual impressions. One of Chagall’s contemporaries and friends, Pablo Picasso, said of him, I don’t know where he gets those images, but he must have an angel in his head.
Chagall lived through WWI, the Russian Revolution, WWII, and lost his first wife to illness. His love for life, his zeal for beauty, and his passion for connection can be found in his depictions not only of romantic love, but more universally in his expression of love’s power amid suffering. He once said, Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love. Below we see the crucifixion of Christ through the lens of Jewish suffering in the 1930’s in Germany. Notice Jesus depicted with a prayer shawl and head cloth.
The White Crucifixion (1938)
Art Institute of Chicago
Chagall’s passion for communicating the power of love can be seen in many of the stained-glass installations he created in the latter half of his career. A simple search online will unearth images from his work at Notre-Dame de Toute Grace, the United Nations Headquarters, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Synagogue of the Hadassah University Hospital, and many more. The vibrant colors used in these stained glass works communicate biblical stories, the inter-connectedness of nature, and the source of life itself, which is love. Chagall said, In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Synagogue of the Hadassah University Hospital (1960-1962)
POETRY
Love is the GPS*
by Rumi
There is no ailment
like the ailment of the heart
Love is the astrolabe
of God’s heart secrets
Whether the love you feel
is human
or Divine
ultimately Love
will lead us to God.
*The poem originally had no title. The poem with title appears in the book Radical Love edited by Omid Safi
PROFILE
Leo Buscaglia
(1924-1998)
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain,
can we truly know what love means. (Leo F. Buscaglia)
Leo Buscaglia was a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California (USC) from 1965 till his retirement in 1984. He continued to teach beyond the university, becoming known as a pioneer in the field of motivational speaking. His heartfelt talks, focused on love, were broadcast on national TV and were prominently featured on PBS throughout the 1980s. Buscaglia never considered himself to be a motivational speaker; he viewed himself as an ordinary teacher, with a simple message about love, whose classroom had become the world.
Born in Los Angeles to Italian immigrants, Buscaglia was the youngest of four children and was raised in the Roman Catholic faith. He credits the physically demonstrative love of life learned from his Italian parents combined with the inner reflection that he learned through his travels and studies with giving him insight on love.
A significant event in his life occurred in the late 1960s when he learned that one of his students had committed suicide. Buscaglia remembered her as one of the sets of “kind eyeballs” he looked for in the large lecture hall. Her consistent responses in class encouraged him that at least one student was connecting with what he shared. The news of her suicide deeply impacted him. “What are we doing stuffing facts into people and forgetting that they are human beings?” he remarked. The event led Buscaglia to form a non-credit class entitled Love 101. The class became hugely popular and eventually led to speaking opportunities and a book.
At one time, five of his books were on the New York Times Best Sellers List simultaneously. Over eleven million copies of his books had been sold in the U.S. by the time of his death from a heart attack in 1998. Approximately 24 editions are available throughout the world today. When Buscaglia found a publisher for his initial book titled Love, to his surprise the publisher informed him that the simple title had never previously been published. In Buscaglia’s characteristic humor, he would say, “I have the copyright on Love!”
Buscaglia was known to be a hugger and was the first to proclaim and promote the concept of humanity's need for hugs: 5 to survive, 8 to maintain, and 12 to thrive. Lines of people would form following his talks to get an opportunity to receive a hug from Buscaglia. His teaching on love and his frequent hugging found its way into popular culture. In 1984, Charles Schultz’s Peanuts comic strip featured the dog Snoopy walking toward Charlie Brown and his sister Sally. Snoopy gives them both warm and sincere hugs. Afterwards, Charlie Brown explains their dog’s behavior to his puzzled sister: “You can always tell when he’s been listening to Leo Buscaglia tapes.”
Buscaglia lived what he taught on love, no matter the place or circumstance. He was known for getting on elevators, putting his back to the door, and introducing himself saying "This might be the only chance I'll ever get to meet you, and I don't want to miss this chance." He would rake the leaves in his yard and put them in a room in his house so he could sit and study them. He was fascinated that God would go to the trouble to make every leaf different. "Imagine how proud he is of us if he goes to that much trouble for a simple leaf on a tree."
The significance and simplicity of love was core to Buscaglia’s teaching. He is known for stating “Love is a learned phenomenon.” May we each continue our lifelong learning of the phenomenon of love. (DG)
A sample of quotes on Love from Leo Buscaglia:
Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
FILM
Each month we recommend films focused on our theme
Feature Film
Lars and the Real Girl
(2007)
Film critic Roger Ebert posed the question: “How do you make a film about a life-sized love doll, ordered through the Internet, into a life-affirming statement of hope? In Lars and the Real Girl, you do it with faith in human nature, and with a performance by Ryan Gosling that says things that cannot be said. And you surround him with actors who express the instinctive kindness we show to those we love.” Kindness and love are the transformative threads woven through this quirky yet heart-warming comedy that spotlights the patient love of coworkers, a community, and a brother and sister-in-law – a love that has a healing impact on the main character. The film was directed by Craig Gillespie and stars Ryan Gosling. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Screenplay and is rated PG-13. Available on various streaming services.
Documentary Film
Your Love Broke Through:
The Keith Green Story
(62 minutes)
For those unfamiliar with him, Keith Green was an influential singer/songwriter in the 1970s who inspired many to follow Jesus because of his passionate singing and piano playing. He is known for songs like “Your Love Broke Through”, “Oh Lord, You’re Beautiful”, and “There is a Redeemer.” This documentary movie tells Keith Green’s story and covers much of his life and testimony, from his grooming to be a teen idol, to his experimentation with drugs, to his coming to faith in Christ at the age of 19. At the young age of 28 Green died tragically in a plane crash along with two of his children, leaving behind his grieving wife Melody and two remaining children. The movie is narrated by popular Christian artist Tobymac.
Short Film
The Hug:
How a Man’s Chance Encounter with a Little Girl
Gave Him New Purpose in Life
(5 minutes)
An unexpected but powerful friendship is the focus of this installment of “A More Perfect Union.” CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman shows us how an 82-year-old widower was touched by an innocent question in the canned food aisle of a grocery store when he needed it most.
Ted Talk
Being the Beloved
Henri Nouwen
(17 minutes)
Henri J.M. Nouwen was a Dutch Roman Catholic Priest and PhD psychologist who taught at Yale, Harvard, and Notre Dame. Arguably one of the most beloved spiritual writers of the twentieth century, Nouwen experienced a deep depression that caused him to re-evaluate the radically transformative power of love. He eventually chose to leave higher education to become the priest of the L’Arche community in Toronto, Canada, a group of developmentally delayed adults who didn’t know the difference between the Ivy League and poison ivy. Nouwen’s life-message was simply that we are “The Beloved.” We are loved first and our primary spiritual task is to claim/receive our belovedness from our “first love,” which is God himself. Before his untimely death in 1996 at the age of 64, Nouwen gave three consecutive sermons at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, CA. These three brief sermons are an inspiring and powerful summary of his life’s work and vision. The first of the three, Being the Beloved, we feature here.
ESSAY
The Fruit of Love in a Hardening Ecosystem
By Andrew DeCort
There is a difference between hardy and hard. It is often forgotten nowadays.
I believe I get hardier every day…but I shall never grow hard. (Etty Hillesum)
Is the fruit of the Spirit going out of season in contemporary Christianity?
Amidst America’s hurting ecosystem, pastors report that their people increasingly perceive the New Testament’s root values like love and peace as “liberal” and “weak.” Of course, “God” is endlessly invoked in popular culture. But something more “muscular” and hard is expected to spring from this divine power – something faster and more forceful which promises wealth and winning. The soil seems to be hardening to the fruit of God’s garden.
The Galatians, to whom the Apostle Paul wrote about this fruit, were not unfamiliar with the hardened soil of popular culture. Traditionally, they worshiped the war-god Sabazios. He was depicted as fighting on horseback and defeating his enemies in battle. Isn’t this what divine power produces?
To be clear, Paul himself was no snowflake. We shouldn’t forget that Paul was once a fearsome figure of the militant gospel trending on the market today. The New Testament introduces him as a religious nationalist who “breathed murderous threats” in the name of his group’s God (Acts 9:1). We watch as Paul oversees a public execution and seeks to arrest his enemies (Acts 8:1; 9:1-2).
Paul himself was eventually arrested and executed by the empire. But it wasn’t for insurrection – at least not the militant kind we’re familiar with. Paul didn’t invoke “God” to “take down” the emperor or “take back” the government. To the contrary, after Paul met Jesus on a mission to imprison his Christian enemies, Paul underwent a radical conversion. He then began courageously traveling the empire and writing subversive letters to its cultural centers like Galatia.
What made these letters subversive was Paul’s announcement of Jesus as an alternative “sovereign” (traditionally translated “lord”) to Caesar and the countercultural values of Jesus’ movement. Paul called them “the fruit of the Spirit” – the organic evidence of God’s personal presence taking root in our humanity. As Paul cultivated this fruit across the empire, its uprising was perceived as threatening (Acts 17:6). It desacralized Rome’s power-divinizing, domineering order of citizens and foreigners, masters and slaves, “us” and “enemies” (Galatians 3:28; Colossians 3:11).
Paul wrote that the first fruit of God’s Spirit is love (Galatians 5:22). For Paul, this love was modeled by Jesus himself. Jesus wasn’t a muscular messiah driven to “win” and defeat his nation’s “enemies” like Sabazios and Caesar. Jesus was an executed martyr who freely “gave himself” for his enemies and their resurrection (Galatians 2:20; Romans 5:8-10). According to Paul, this is what made his love truly powerful, unkillable, eternally alive. It “tore down the dividing wall of hostility” and “created in himself one new humanity,” as Paul defiantly wrote from prison (Ephesians 2:4, 11-18). In this humanity, the othering identities of the empire become irrelevant (Galatians 3:28).
This Spirit-suffused love then becomes the seedbed of the other eight “fruit” that Paul names as the harvest of God’s empowering presence in our humanity (Galatians 5:22-23). Love enlivens the joy of cultivating and celebrating one another’s wellbeing – the inverse of winning’s glee. Love grounds the peace that mediates human relationships set free from superior, separating identities. Love sustains the patience to suffer the inevitable pain of being human together without becoming punishing to each other in the process. Love converts our indifference into kindness, our contempt into goodness, our aggression into gentleness. Love fosters the faithfulness that makes enduring, ever-deepening relationships possible in the face of self-serving, transient transactions. All throughout, love composes the self-control at the heart of our creative moral agency. It’s the regulated freedom to consciously desire and artfully act for our shared flourishing, so radically distinct from reaction and addiction (Galatians 5:1, 13).
According to Paul, these nine-but-united “fruit,” which both begin with love and embody love, are the garden of God growing within us and between us. They’re what true power looks like in personal character and public practice. Paul writes that they can be summarized in just “one command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’” (Galatians 5:14). Their opposites – selfish ambition, envy, aggression – may be easier, faster, and more forceful in the short term. But they’re the perishing fruit of the enslaving empire and its (in)toxic(ating) ecosystem (Galatians 5:19-21).
For advocating this verdant vision, Paul was eventually executed as an enemy of the empire. Rather than weak and irrelevant, the cultural guardians seem to have understood just how powerful the Spirit’s hardy fruit truly was. It broke through the empire’s hardened soil and represented an upheaval to the addictive idols of Roman pride, power, and plunder. With time and suffering, it spread into the largest movement in human history, still growing across the earth today.
This love-grounded, Spirit-suffused fruit remains the healing medicine for our own hurting ecosystem, however unseasonal it may seem in our hardening soil.
What is growing in your garden? What is growing in our communal garden?
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Andrew DeCort is the author of Blessed Are the Others: Jesus’ Way in a Violent World (BitterSweet Collective, 2024) and Reviving the Golden Rule: How the Ancient Ethic of Neighbor Love Can Heal the World (IVP Academic, forthcoming). He founded the Institute for Faith and Flourishing, co-leads Prophetic: The Public Theology Fellowship, and writes the newsletter Stop & Think.
BOOKS
Each month we recommend a book (or two) focused on our theme
NON-FICTION
Bold Love
Dan Allender & Tremper Longman
Bold Love is a book about how to love people who have harmed our souls through foolishness, cruelty, and callousness. We are often tempted to think that loving such an enemy will risk further damage to the self. We may give up, seek revenge, or simply protect ourselves. Authors Allender and Longman begin their book with careful attention to the heart of the victim. Instead of saying “just do it” when it comes to forgiveness, they delve into the human heart’s universal struggle with love and how we can grow in the strength of love before we interact with challenging people. They show that true love for an enemy isn’t about acquiescence or ignorance of harm; it’s about concern for the soul of the perpetrator. It’s about an invitation to hope. As the title suggests, this kind of love takes courage and strength, but it also requires wisdom. The book helps discern what kind of person you might be dealing with and how to tailor your response (eg., Are they foolish or are they evil? Is their sin against others a pattern? What kind of risks are appropriate for me to take?). It then guides the reader in a “guerrilla warfare” of love that challenges us to be both empathetic and shrewd.
FICTION
The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese
The Covenant of Water is the long-awaited new novel by Abraham Verghese, the author of the major word-of-mouth bestseller Cutting for Stone, which has sold over 1.5 million copies in the United States alone and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over two years.
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala’s long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this unforgettable new beginning, the young girl—and future matriarch, known as Big Ammachi—will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only constants.
CHILDRENS
Love Is
Paulo Escobar
“Love is patient, love is kind.” These familiar words from the Bible begin one of its most beloved and recognized passages. Love Is brings the text of 1 Corinthians 13 to life through an illustrative exploration of God’s greatest gift to us.
Critically acclaimed artist Paola Escobar delivers beautiful, nature-filled illustrations, reminding us that love is a constant positive force in the lives of those touched by it–from beginning to end, through good times and tough times.
DIG DEEPER
Practical suggestions to help you go deeper into our theme
1. QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION
Devote some time and thought to these reflective questions on our theme:
a. How would you describe society’s view of love?
b. How is love as a fruit of the Spirit different from society’s view?
c. Who are the individuals who have most meaningfully shown you love in your life?
d. How does your love for others reflect God’s love?
e. Are there individuals in your life that you struggle to love? How can you actively cultivate love for them?
f. How can you better demonstrate love through your actions (not just words)?
g. In situations where you have failed to love, what can you do differently next time?
2. GARY CHAPMAN: THE 5 LOVE LANGUAGES
In this video from Holy Trinity Brompton Church in London, author Gary Chapman introduces the concept of the five love languages found in his popular book The Five Love Languages.
3. LOVING YOUR ENEMIES: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
In this transcribed sermon delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church on Nov. 17, 1957, King encourages us all to inject within the very structure of the universe that strong and powerful element of love.
4. SONG: JESUS LE CHRIST
Sung in French and written by the Taizé monastic community in Burgundy, France, the song Jesus le Christ lyrics translated into English are: “Jesus Christ, inner light, do not let my darkness speak to me. Jesus Christ, inner light, let me welcome your love.” Sung by the youth choir at the World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal in 2023.
5. PRAYER
Dear God,
Thank you that you are a loving, gracious God. Thank you that you’ve offered us forgiveness and the gift of new life in you. Thank you that your love is perfect, it never fails, and that nothing can separate us from your love.
We pray that our lives would be filled and overflowing with the power of your love so we can make a difference in this world and bring honor to you. Remind us that the most important things are not what we do outwardly, they’re not based on any talent or gift. The most significant thing we can do in this life is simply to love you and to choose to love others.
Lord, thank you that your love is patient. Help us show patience with those around us. Lord, thank you that your love is kind. Help us to extend kindness to others. Lord, thank you that your love does not take into account a wrong suffered. Lord, help us not to hold grudges, but to choose to forgive, even when it’s difficult.
Help us to love as you love. Fill us with your Spirit so that we can choose what is best. We are weak Lord, but we know also that, even when we are weak, you are strong within us. Thank you that it’s not all up to us. Thank you that you equip us to face each day with the power of your love, your forgiveness, and your grace. In Jesus' name, AMEN.
(Prayer written by Debbie McDaniel)
ROOTED
But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord,
whose confidence is in him.
They will be like a tree planted by the water
that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit.
(Jeremiah 17:7-8 NIV)
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FIELD NOTES
Images used in order of appearance:
1. FIELD: God Behind Bars, Website and Brand by Doxology Creative
2. SEEDS: pngland.com, Rainbow Grapes
https://pngland.com/rainbow-grapes-how-to-grow-this-colorful-delight/#google_vignette
3. ART: Marc Chagall, I and The Village (1911), Museum of Modern Art, NYC, New York
4. POETRY: Best Friends, Veterans and shelter pets healing together
https://bestfriends.org/stories/features/veterans-and-shelter-pets-healing-together
5. PROFILE: Ron Bull, Leo Buscaglia, Toronto Star, 1992
https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/objects/246427/his-message-may-seem-simplistic-and-trite-to-some-but-leo-b
6. FILM: Eponaquest Worldwide, Alex Economu & Lucinda working with Panther
https://eponaquest.com/overview/
7. ESSAY: Galatians Mural, Uptown Baptist Church directed by Brian Bakke and Greg King, Unique Thrift Store, Chicago’s Northside
(BP) photos posted in the BP Photo Library at https://www.bpnews.net. Photo titles: MURAL WITH A MESSAGE, AN ARTIST’S TOUCH, STUDENT ON A SCAFFOLD, and RESTORATION VOLUNTEERS.
8. BOOKS: Boys and Girls Clubs of America
https://www.bgca.org/get-involved/
9. DIG DEEPER: Cold Stone partnering with Best Buddies
https://www.coldstonecreamery.com/bestbuddies/index.html
10. ROOTED: Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt, Jesus Washing the Feet of his Disciples, chalk and grisaille on paper, 1898, National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
TEAM CULTIVARE: Duane Grobman (Editor), Greg Ehlert, Bonnie Fearer, Lisa Hertzog, Ben Hunter, Eugene Kim, Olivia Mather, Andrew Massey, Rita McIntosh, Jason Pearson (Design: Pearpod.com)
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