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The Tea Party Wins in Nevada
… were sure that moderate voters would not risk their votes on someone who had once blamed trees for most air pollution, opposed the Civil Rights Act, and supported an economic agenda that …
The Final Journey
… Joyce Rupp … Companion of Life, Guardian of Death, more and more I resemble an old gnarled tree, wrinkled bark, gray boughs, thinning leaves. The ground around my roots is weakening. My … … What do you see as the blessings of aging? What is most difficult for you? What kind of tree do you envision yourself to be at this time of your life? Sketch this tree. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ … SIGN UP NOW … to receive an …
The catechism of our senses
… route for the spice trade. His first hint that a new land was near was the scent of sassafras trees wafting out to sea and picked up by his crew’s noses. There is a rare medical condition …
New gifts from the Spirit
… the many problems facing our society today through an ecological lens, we can see that, like tree branches, they have common roots. For example, the global concentration of wealth and power …
Angels, redemption and Grace
… anything about church? You can go to temple, go to a mosque, heck, Grace -- go sit in a dang tree if that’ll get you closer to God.” But Grace is not just another “spiritual but not …
Teaching a chicken to walk backwards
… way he can escape sin is to have no soul. Haze has visions of a ragged figure that moves from tree to tree in the forest of his mind. He thinks salvation is a type of punishment. He comes home to …
Reawakening the inner child
… I reflect upon my early years growing up on a farm in rural Iowa, I often recall the grove of trees west of the house. Those trees seemed like a huge forest to me. The thickly leafed summer branches hid much of the sun, … mystery. It was the playhouse of my older sister and myself. We would spend hours among the trees making up games, playing house, baking mud pies, telling wild stories – and, of course, …
Pope, Bolivian president discuss ecology
… of an international court of "climate justice," and he has pledged to plant 10 million trees -- equivalent to Bolivia's population -- by April 2011. Morales told reporters that the …
A trace of reality in hierarchy's take on abuse
… to be changing it remains to be seen what actions will follow. It is easy to get lost amid the trees of details of individuals and horrific acts of abuse; of who knew what when. The details …
Congo sister's talk offers new light in a time of darkness
… us grow as individuals and as a group? Does a Bashi proverb not state in fact that “a single tree does not give much shade?” It is by pooling all our efforts and moving beyond all that …
American decay
… by how much a student can pay. In 2008 the University of California destroyed 40 huge oak trees to build an athletic training gym. One of Hedges’ classmates, now on the Harvard Divinity …
American Catholic demographics and the future of ministry
… news, sometimes it’s useful to step back and focus on the forest rather than its individual trees. Journalists are, of course, famous for bringing bad news. As the old joke goes, the …
The commonplace magic of Spring
… cards she had up her sleeve all winter long. Spring is a quickening of forces as complex as a tree’s buds and as simple as flowing water. By the simple fact of being alive we participate, for …
Just enough
… a deep sense of dread. I started to walk toward the house, but stopped. I ducked behind a palm tree (even the gas stations have palm trees out here), and pulled out my cell-phone camera. I was prepared -- honestly, fully -- to …
Diocese installs solar panels at schools, cemetery
… approximately 21,000 tons of carbon dioxide in 25 years -- equivalent to planting 377 acres of trees or removing 5,179 cars from the nation’s roads for one year. San Jose Bishop Patrick …
Vatican may sue carbon-offset company
… the world by offsetting its greenhouse-gas emissions. "We know that there still have been no trees planted," even though the company was repeatedly asked to carry through with their … carbon dioxide emissions an individual or company cannot eliminate can be offset by planting trees or buying the carbon mitigation credits of a company that plants trees or takes other action to eliminate carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. When the Vatican …
Not our nature to be removed from nature
… was more than adequately endowed with the landscape of childhood: dirt and stone, grass and trees, butterflies and birds, flowers and bees. And while we certainly cherished our own …
Witness to Appalachian apocalypse
… it was a mistake because my property lines were well marked, and there was a big white oak tree that was well marked by the surveyor where the property lines were. I had talked with them a …
Closed churches get new uses
… units and 23 market-rate condominiums. Retained on the site was a 150-year-old copper beech tree with a half-acre canopy. The St. John of God development, made up of seven buildings on the …
A moment in the dark
… got used to the dark, I discovered that I could see, somewhat dimly, the silhouettes of the trees against the sky. Far off, I could hear the lonely cry of an owl and the barking of a … and pine needles. Slowly I began to feel my way along the path. My hands brushed against rough tree bark. My feet cautiously groped among gnarled roots along the path. There was the ruffle and … began to part. I could see patches of stars here and there. Some of them were down among the trees, looking like fugitives from the night sky, brilliant twinklings in among the dark …