The Art of Creation: The Lightest Touch
September 18, 2025 - As Pattiann Rogers demonstrates in this poem, "Poetry is nearer to music than it is to prose." By Louise Conenr
The Art of Creation: Belonging and Brokenness
June 5, 2025 - Today's poem, Every Riven Thing, was written by Christian Wiman. It sees God's presence in everything God has made—all that is riven (broken, sundered, torn apart). By Louise Conner
The Art of Creation: Wall of Wonders
April 10, 2025 - Readers share what wonders they have found outside their doors in recent weeks. By Louise Conner
The Art of Creation: Wild Things Reprise
November 7, 2024 - In April 2021, we launched The Ecological Disciple. Today, I share an update of the first post of this column, as a spark of light against the fear and despair that many are currently experiencing. I pray that these words will be a comfort and an encouragement. By Louise Conner
The Art of Creation: Garden Project
September 5, 2024 - The poem, Set the Garden on Fire, by Chen Chen gives a poignant picture of the contrast between welcome and exclusion. While exclusion keeps out the other, welcome is generous space where the different is made to feel familiar. By Louise Conner
The Art of Creation: Three Poems of a Hallowed World
June 6, 2024 - William Stafford's poetry models an ability to listen and pay attention to a world the poet felt great affection and respect for. He believed nature had the power to teach us about ourselves and how to live in the world. By Louise Conner
The Art of Creation: Opening Our Eyes
March 14, 2024 - The poem, Moving the Woodpile, reveals a perspective into the relationship we, as humans have with the rest of creation as the narrator literally and figuratively, moves the woodpile and reveals to us what is underneath. By Louise Conner