Lancia’s Posts & Interviews
Originally started as Lancia’s blog in 2007, Cultivating Magazine officially launched in 2018. A seasonal publication released online (and, for a few Spring and Autumn editions, in print) from Cultivating Oaks Press, Cultivating Magazine offers written and visual arts work for the encouragement of God’s people.
Find Lancia’s full archive of essays here, and a curated section below.
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Cultivating Magazine
A selection of Lancia’s written interviews with various writers and artists in Cultivating Magazine.
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Interviews
Keeping company with word shepherds at every stage of a writer’s life, this Substack is Lancia’s main writing outlet these days. Subscribe through the Substack site or app today to receive her latest posts about the joys, challenges, and beauties of a writer’s high calling.
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Cultivating a Writer’s Life
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In this closing talk for Imagination Redeemed 2020, Lancia E. Smith, author, speaker, and founder of The Maker’s Project, considers why as Christians we must recapture the meaning of the word enchantment; why wonder is elemental in the life and imagination of every believer; and what we must do to cultivate the conditions for it in our own lives as well for the sake of the world.
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As writers and sub-creators, we face a foe that stands between us and the incarnation of words that give meaning and substance to the unseen. This experience of opposition is real, and it is common to every writer. It is also a force that can be resisted and successfully overcome. Lancia E. Smith gives a look at the calling of writers to their vocation, the origin and forms that opposition can take, and effective methods for overcoming that opposing force.
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In this lecture from Anselm's 2019 Rocky Mountain Artists' Retreat, Lancia E. Smith explores the relationship between being true to your calling and loving your audience--and reveals how relationships can strengthen our calling.
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In the continuing series from the Anselm Society discussing the unique call of the Christian artist ("centric genius"), Brian Brown interviews Lancia E. Smith about her work with The Maker’s Project (then “The Cultivating Project”) and the work of making whole artists.
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Heidi White of FORMA magazine interviews Lancia E. Smith about creativity, the origins of Cultivating, and the power of community.
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Lancia E. Smith and Jonathan Rogers talk about the relationship between editing and discipleship, the balance of sensitivity and maturity, and the habit of cultivating wonder.
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Podcasts & Talks
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Published in Ekstasis in 2023, Lancia E. Smith writes about affirming goodness in the bitter seasons, crafting beauty in the seasons of sorrow, and defending truth in the seasons of heartbreak and uncertainty for a future unknown.