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Environmentalist's death inspires look at green stories worldwide
… entrepreneur is buying up acres of abandoned lots in the city and planting thousands of trees on them. John Hantz, owner of Hantz Farms, wants to plant at least 15,000 oaks and sugar …
New words to old hymns
… … O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM … O little town of Bethlehem, The crèche beneath our tree Makes you seem real, And there we kneel In flights of fantasy. All caught up in the …
A Strange & Splendid Christmas
… and get them sent. Drive to Connecticut with my niece, a friend, and the three dogs. Get the tree and decorate it on Christmas Eve. Midnight Mass. Dinner with friends and family. Restful …
We must change our lives to be ready for Jesus
… escape when divine punishment comes?" He tells them the ax is already laid to the root of the tree. Every tree that failed to produce good fruit will be cut down, thrown into the fire. Look ahead to …
Afghanistan journal, part two: bearing witness to peacemaking in a war-torn country
… need to get to the roots of the problems, and solve the problem at its roots, otherwise the tree of war will grow again." … Dec. 7 … I began the day sitting with Raz Mohammad, who is 20 and …
The Killings in Newtown
… nor smell it, nor hear it. An absence can be felt but not the way a branch on a low-hanging tree can be felt when it hits one’s face. Suffering is also a mystery, but it is very different …
10 ways for Christmas gifts to reflect your values
… pie for breakfast when friends started posting pictures of their fully decked Christmas trees on social media. "Whew, all done with my holiday decorating," one declared the day after … to the spirit of Advent? In contrast to the stores that fill their shelves with trim-a-tree before trick-or-treat, Nordstrom has turned the fact that it delays holiday decorating until … we automatically think a present must be something that can be wrapped and put under the tree. Instead, give gift certificates for "services" such as babysitting, leaf raking or basement …
Morning Briefing
… … Worcester, Mass. -- Bishop McManus spoke about nativity characters and children shared Jesse tree symbols … during a parish family retreat in English and Spanish … at St. Paul Cathedral …
Two new books tell story of Hildegard of Bingen, fourth woman doctor of the church
… fireball gives the greenness of the heart and veins and all the organs to the entire body as a tree gives sap and greenness to all the branches from its root.' " Today's science, Fox writes, … to visit him through the beauty of nature, "with its aliveness and greening power, its jasmine trees pouring forth their amazing scent, the birds singing their memorable songs, the waters … "Don't give up, Sharon," she spoke through them. Four months later, as the snow melted and the trees blossomed once again, finances resolved themselves and the locked door to the creation …
Afghanistan journal, part one: Learning a nonviolent lifestyle in Kabul
… it looks like a city of low brown buildings surrounded by brown walls and brown roads with no trees and no water. But as the plane approached the runway, the towering mountains around us …