After noticing that images were no longer showing in my Featured Content Gallery, I deactivated and reactivated plugins with recent updates and there seems to be a conflict with Connections that didn’t exist before. Would love to continue using both.

What exactly is the conflict? So far all reported cases have been plugins with errors in their JavaScript causing the images within Connections to appear not to load.
Can you please have both plugins active and give me the link to your directory?