Andrew Larsen

Published in National Geographic
Hang some beauty on your wall. Or use for a screensaver. Savor some jaw dropping beauty. Be awestruck. Imagine standing in front of something beautiful.

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Make Hummus Not Walls
Our new movie captures an intense week in Israel-Palestine when we sought to stand for a just and sustainable peace.

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Adding Soul to Your Photography
Whether you're a serious hobbyist or just love to snap pictures with your phone let's learn together.

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Waging Peace: Getting to Know Your Other
Much of the work of peacemaking starts by going to meet and get to know your "other". Join a growing network of peacemakers engaging their Muslim neighbors.

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Peacemaking / About

Start the Journey Towards Peace

I work as a consultant and player-coach with many churches and organizations seeking to understand the “other” and empower peacemaking initiatives. See what others are saying and learn how you can join the journey of peacemaking.

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Soul Photography

Exploring the intersection of Photography and Spirituality

Whether you just appreciate good pictures or enjoy taking them, here's a chance to learn more about how to use your camera in your spiritual journey. Phone cameras work too. Pick up new ideas from Andy's discoveries in the intersection of photography and spirituality.

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Movies & Stuff

From Peacetalking to Peacemaking

Follow Andy's journey in the heartbreaking, longest standing conflict in modern history as he seeks to magnify the voices of real and gritty peacemakers on all sides of this conflict. Screen a movie, form a study group and use the new video study guide.

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Get Your Own Photos

Seeing Every Day

You can actually own some of Andy's award winning photos that have appeared in many publications (including the National Geographic). Get a canvas or metal print, a digital version to use as a screensaver. You choose.

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Waging Peace

Misunderstanding and conflict between Muslims and Christians is rampant and sadly growing. Peace in the Middle East? Never! This is part of today’s story but not the entire picture. While news headlines often feature the bad news, this drowns out the many, and I would add predominantly good news stories that I experience every day in my relationships with Muslims and in Israel-Palestine. The bad news is often exacerbated by a large megaphone grabbed by those who set fires of misunderstanding and prejudice, “othering” each other as they promote more conflict instead of seeking truth and making peace. There is stuff that happens. For sure. Extremists on all sides, in all quarters of the globe seek to hijack basic human rights, or the message of faithful adherents who find God calling us to peacemaking instead of living in enmity and fear of each other. But that's not the whole story.

Jews, Christians, and Palestinians working for Peace

Hans Küng formulated that “there will be no peace among the nations without peace among the

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Protest for Palestine / Israel / Westlake Plaza / May 16, 2021

What a hope-filled and inspiring day standing with people who care about what is going on

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Truth Serum

“Truth serum” is a colloquial name for any of a range of psychoactive drugs used in

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The Evolution of a Photo–The Japanese Maple

The evolution of a photo. So the Japanese maple. What can I say? They are just

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Yemen In Crisis: An Educational Resource

Follow the up/down arrows below this PDF document to read the 10-page Educational Resource. Share the

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Food for Thought in Crazy Times

“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other

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“What Do You Want?”

Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, “What do you want?” They said, “Rabbi” (which

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Managing Tension. No Justice, No Peace

Things are tense these days. This weekend I found myself the target of someone’s random anger

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95% Water in Gaza Unfit for Humans

Israeli Consumption of Available Water

Palestinian Consumption of Available Water

Palestinian Water Projects Approved

Israeli Water Projects Approved

Jews, Christians, and Palestinians working for Peace

By: Andrew

On: March 31, 2022

Hans Küng formulated that “there will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions; there will be no peace among the religions without a dialogue among the religions” (Küng 1990: 171). What do you think? Comments are welcome but please be kind. Share the joy Continue Reading

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Protest for Palestine / Israel / Westlake Plaza / May 16, 2021

By: Andrew

On: May 17, 2021

What a hope-filled and inspiring day standing with people who care about what is going on in Palestine. Cari and I found ourselves tearing up as we approached Westlake Plaza and saw the crowds and energy. We joined around 2 thousand people to remember the Nakba, or catastrophe of 1948,Continue Reading

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Truth Serum

By: Andrew

On: November 13, 2020

“Truth serum” is a colloquial name for any of a range of psychoactive drugs used in an effort to obtain information from subjects who are unable or unwilling to provide it otherwise. Although a variety of such substances have been tested, serious issues have been raised about their use scientifically,Continue Reading

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The Evolution of a Photo–The Japanese Maple

By: Andrew

On: November 1, 2020

The evolution of a photo. So the Japanese maple. What can I say? They are just beautiful trees, to begin with but in the fall and with the sun low in the sky they are even more beautiful. I like to get inside the canopy of these trees or evenContinue Reading

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Yemen In Crisis: An Educational Resource

By: Andrew

On: October 19, 2020

Follow the up/down arrows below this PDF document to read the 10-page Educational Resource. Share the joy Continue Reading

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Biologically, our ancestral differences reflect only a 0.1 percent difference in DNA. Yet we often cling to those differences — both in unity with our fellow people of origin and, at times, in divisiveness.

Over all, the experiment has provided a special opportunity to explore the lines of race. I found that as human beings, our strategies for survival are the same, and our similarities far outweigh our differences.
Anita Foeman, professor of communication studies

About Me

Published in National Geographic

Make Hummus Not Walls

Adding Soul to Your Photography

Waging Peace: Getting to Know Your Other

From Peacetalking to Peacemaking — Introduction

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Water Usage in Israel-Palestine

95% Water in Gaza Unfit for Humans

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Palestinian Consumption of Available Water

Palestinian Water Projects Approved

Israeli Water Projects Approved

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