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Jon Magnuson is executive director of the Cedar Tree Institute in Marquette, Michigan.
Slimming through wasting diseases
… grins, wide, happy to show her missing teeth. She plunges into the leaf pile and climbs the tree. She hasn't learned to duck and cover. Rather, my granddaughter takes up all the space she …
Alternative Christmas gifts give to more than just the recipient
… a burgeoning world of alternative ways of gift-giving that are vying for attention. Angel trees or giving trees set up in churches, schools or even restaurants and other commercial businesses around the … in Ohio sells over a year, Lare said. For charitable gifts that stay close to home, the angel tree or giving tree model is popular. For these, names of needy people and suggestions for gifts …
Cooperative art exhibit delights as it explores the Caribbean
… in Miami (another Caribbean city), paints a largely abstract, religiously evocative "Spook Tree" (1956). In a thoroughly enjoyable video that reverberates with multiple meanings, the young …
The Best Time of Year
… Christmas carols on the piano. I love going into the forest to find the perfect Christmas tree and decorating it. But, the real reason this is the best time of the year is different from …
Amid Sandy, symposium pairs papal teaching and climate change
… and sacramental life he stresses, saying he asks those he baptizes or confirms to plant 10 trees as a way to give new life but also curb climate change, according to Catholic News Service …
Syrian refugees who fled fighting live in limbo in neighboring Turkey
… his city to the Syrian border. Along the way he reported seeing "entire families living under trees, cooking leaves for their kids to eat and asking passers-by for clothing." "I could not …
Liberation theologian's Call to Action speech focuses on feminism, interreligious work
… a parking meter and fell down. But he just stayed on the ground where he was, gazing up at the trees. "Mommy, what do you think that God is trying to tell us?" Mommy waited. Observed little …
Hurricane Sandy reveals fissures in New York
… overlooking the East River, it looked as if a Cyclops had come by and swept several enormous trees away with the back of a hand. Of course, in ways that mattered, chaos was kept at a …
A media roundup of climate change stories
… New Guinea, performs a baptism, confirmation or ordination, he asks churchgoers to plant 10 trees to promote new life. Unabali considers the link between respecting the environment and the … the church as inseparable, writes Dennis Sadowski in a Nov. 9 Catholic News Service article . Tree-planting is one way this bishop encourages people to respond to the rapid pace of climate …
Interrupted lives
… I lost a lot, but not that much. The house itself withstood the surge; the garage did not. Two trees went down; one clipped the house. The Catskill (N.Y.) Fire Department pumped out the crawl …