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• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Sister Nancy Miller OSF (4)

  Blessing of Animals at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, Grove City, OH. Photo credit: Sister Nancy Miller OSF
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Sister Nancy Miller OSF (3)

  Our Lady of Perpetual Help Creation Care Council members tour the Ohio State Byrd Polar Research Center to learn about global warming. Photo credit: Sister Nancy Miller OSF
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Sister Nancy Miller OSF (2)

  Our Lady of Perpetual Help Creation Care Council member Pat Sarosi gives a parishioner one of over 30 seedling trees handed out on Earth Day 2019 to a parishioner. Photo credit: Sister Nancy Miller OSF
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Sister Nancy Miller OSF (1)

  Season of Creation Bulletin Board display for 2019 Season of Creation – Praise the Creator by Protecting the Web of Life. Photo credit: Sister Nancy Miller OSF
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Leanna DeJong (2)

  Finding God in the mundane: Christian school elementary students make a work of art together using small pieces of God’s creation (found on the ground) that they think are beautiful. Photo credit: Leanna DeJong
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Leanna DeJong (1)

  Lichen: God’s version of modern art. Photo credit: Leanna DeJong
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Andres Arnalds (5)

  We need to listen to the voice of nature. Strandir, Iceland. Photo credit: Andres Arnalds
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Andres Arnalds (4)

  Connecting – it just speaks to a universal pull and blessing of nature when we have time to lie down and contemplate in the stillness of nature. Central Highlands, Iceland. Photo credit: Andres Arnalds
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Andres Arnalds (3)

  Reflections on the creation. On the need to turn our approaches in caring for Earth upside-down, engaging communities. Iceland. Photo credit: Andres Arnalds
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Andres Arnalds (2)

  Let’s listen to the voice of creation – A rumbling volcano in the land of ice and fire. Rangárvallasýsla – beside the Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland. Photo credit: Andres Arnalds
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Andres Arnalds (1)

  As Global citizens we must be stewards of the creation of God. Fjallabak, Rangárvallasysla, Iceland. Photo credit: Andres Arnalds
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Laura Corcoran (5)

  Pondering life at Ross Lake. Chillicothe, OH. Photo credit: Laura Corcoran
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Laura Corcoran (4)

  Bishop Flaget School: Be Somebody’s Sunshine. Chillicothe, OH. Photo credit: Laura Corcoran
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Beth Robinson

  Students collect recyclable caps to create benches for their playground and future grotto. Mt. Vernon, OH. Photo credit: Beth Robinson
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Laura Corcoran (3)

  Sunday afternoon on the Water in Ross County. Chillicothe, OH. Photo credit: Laura Corcoran
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Laura Corcoran (2)

  Young kitten waiting to pounce. Chillicothe, OH. Photo credit: Laura Corcoran
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Laura Corcoran (1)

  Reaching for life – Wormsloe Plantation. Savannah, SC. Photo credit: Laura Corcoran
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Caitlin Perkins

  Grotto Falls June 2018; My father’s life was suddenly taken in June of 2017. Growing up, my brothers and I would hear my dad talking about the Smoky Mountains and how whenever his time came, he wanted his ashes to be spread on the beautiful landscape. Though it happened so soon, my brothers and I carried out my fathers wish and went on a hike on a beautiful June day. We hiked up the Smokies into an area known as “Grotto Falls”. We went a bit further back and barefoot in the river, the three of us spread our dads ashes and hung this cross ornament on a rock in memory of him. This place will always be incredibly special to us. Gatlinburg, TN. Photo Credit: Caitlin Perkins
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Michael Malcolm

  Faith and Science standing together to advocate for all creation and community lead climate solutions. Birmingham, Alabama. Photo credit: Michael Malcolm
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Nona Siegel

  Temple Chai, Phoenix AZ, Jewish Star Garden is planted by the first grade Sunday School class each year. We explore the ongoing miracle of life that gardens demonstrate so vividly, and all the kids learn to love eating fresh vegetables and flowers they grew themselves!! If you know the Earth intimately, you are much more likely to respect and protect it, and feel connected to the Source of Life. We donated many pounds of summer squash to our local food bank, and to Arizona Jews for Justice to feed asylum seekers. Photo credit: Nona Siegel
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: John Helt

  After helping to install solar at our church, we used the same solar contractor to install this array at our home, near our garden. It was inspiring to work in the garden with the solar array “watching over us,” and in this scene, after the garden was done for the season, the panels continued to transform sunlight into energy. Colgate, WI. Photo credit: John Helt
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Emma Szymanski

  Early autumnal sunlight cascades onto sacred Ramapough Lenape land. Photo credit: Emma Szymanski
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Emma Szymanski, “Rooted in Tradition”

  Townsfolk in the village of Worawora (pronounced “Ra-ra”), Ghana, watch dancers and offer customary greetings during the final funeral celebration of one of the community’s elder sub-chiefs. The procession circles around a massive tree at the end of the town square, clad in the traditional mourning colors of red and black. Later in the day, children and older men would take refuge from the intense sun under the widespread shade of ancient branches, climbing and sitting on the sturdy raised roots. At three in the morning, the sub-chief would be returned to the earth, buried after months of preservation and ceremonial funeral rites. I was generously given the opportunity to join in the procession with my host family, who were relatives of the deceased. Polyphonic layers of drumming, synchronized hands and canes beating the surfaces of cylindrical, stretched animal hides, and sporadic booms of rifle blanks fired into the hot air accompanied the cheerful choruses singing praise of the life and spirit of the sub-chief. Photo credit: Emma Szymanski
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Jessica Zimmerle

  Praying with and learning from a Tribal elder – Earth Ministry/Washington Interfaith Power & Light invited people to share their prayers for the future of the Inland Northwest at the Nimiipuu River Rendezvous. The Nimiipuu (Nez Perce Tribe) held this gathering to discuss treaty rights, salmon recovery, and river restoration. Photo credit: Jessica Zimmerle
• Religion and Environment Photo Gallery: Emily O’Donnell

  An employee of the West Laurel Hill Cemetery and Arboretum takes shelter from a summer storm. There are various religious affiliations represented in this non-denominational historic cemetery. This photograph highlights the environmental context to which we all ultimately return. Photo credit: Emily O’Donnell