The Art of Creation: The Photo Ark
October 5, 2023 - After photographing grizzly bears, koalas, wolves and other animals in the field for 17 years,Joel Sartore is now trying to photograph the 25,000 species in human captivity. By Louise Conner
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The Art of Creation: Help Me Listen
September 28, 2023 - Although "listening to the voice of creation," can be practiced in many good and important ways, my suggestion for today is that you try, with God's help and using this prayer, to literally and physically hear the voice of creation with your senses. By Louise Conner
The Art of Creation: Looking Outward, Looking Inward
September 21, 2023 - NASA doesn't only look outward away from the earth, it looks inward toward the earth as well. Its telescopes and and other instruments point at city lights, melting ice caps, phytoplankton blooms, and wildfires, as wells as stars as they form and explode. . By Louise Conner
The Art of Creation: Sculptured Ecosystems
September 7, 2023 - Jackie Brookner (1945-2015) was an ecological artist whose work is often both aesthetic and practical, opening people's awareness to their connections with the rest of creation and also functioning to make those connections healthier and stronger. By Louise Conner
The Art of Creation: The Bead King
August 31, 2023 - Nicknamed “The Bead King," Gateja is a mixed-media artist and jewelry designer, known for his use of recycled and sustainable materials—in particular, his paper beads. His large-scale, intricate works are often colorful and tend to a hopeful view of the world. By Louise Conner
The Art of Creation: No One Else
August 24, 2023 - This poem by Marshall Island poet Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner brings home to readers that climate change doesn't just threaten "nations" in the abstract, but affects specific people, creatures, and land that are part of those nations. By Louise Conner
The Art of Creation: Prayer for the Earth
August 10, 2023 - As someone who believes in both an all-powerful God and in the capability of humans to affect the course of history, I find this Prayer for the Earth from Rabbi David Mevorach Seidenberg to be a helpful resource and share it in the hope that others will, also. By Louise Conner