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… Sr. Maureen Glavin , it was the way in which seed pods sprouted from the branch of a familiar tree, something she'd never noticed before. For me, it was the almost imperceptible trembling of … start in the forest, it really means the ecological environment, so you don't have to be among trees" for it to be effective, Frohlich said. … Healing power of nature … A small but growing … participants to connect to an other-than-human being, Glavin went outside and approached a tree that she sees daily. "I walked over to the tree, and I had this wave of affection for the …

… what he is about to do at Passover.  His encounter with Zacchaeus, the sinner in the sycamore tree, had prepared him to mount the tree of the cross to die for sinners.  The outpouring of trust by a poor widow was a preview of …

… Miners and their families live near the craters in shacks made of plastic tarps. Stripped of trees, the soil is unstable, and little or nothing is done to shore up the sides of pits like the …

… Pat Marrin … “He ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus, who was about to pass that way” (Luke 19:3). Rev 3:1-6, 14-22; Luke 19:1-10 … because of his role as a tax collector. There is something comical about seeing him climb a tree to see over the crowds awaiting Jesus. Yet there is something deeply serious in his desire … with sinners and preaching God’s mercy. Something wonderful happens. Jesus looks up into the tree and “sees” Zacchaeus.  The Gospels note that when Jesus looked intently at people he sees …

… of the earliest known sites of human habitation that high, in a rock shelter well above the tree line. Some time earlier, I'd stood on the beach on an island off the southern tip of South …

… form of permaculture farming, especially in Indonesia . Buddhist monks ordaining trees and working to address climate change in their monasteries. Hindu priests and believers planting trees. "In order to prepare ourselves for the big paradigm shift, we have to build and accumulate …

… rejection of the stranger. No to crimes against immigrants and children. No to the rape of the trees and the pollution of the skies and the poisoning of the oceans. No to the despicable …

… related health hazards. In the past 25 years, Uganda has lost 63% of its forest cover due to tree-cutting for firewood, timber and charcoal, according to the National Forest Authority. The …

… and driest districts, Spiwe Moyo tended her ripening tomato crop. Nearby, underneath a baobab tree, a few emaciated donkeys and a small herd of skinny cattle take shelter from the blazing … surrounded by bare red soil that receives little shade from the sparse leaves of the mopani trees and a few patches of dry grass long desolated by the high temperatures. Despite the … nothing to do to feed themselves or take care of their families, so they end up cutting down trees as a source of energy [for brick-making kilns], and this is contributing to the arid …

… for Catholic News Service. And in Louisiana, as she cleaned up branches torn from her oak trees by hurricanes, youth minister Lindy Brasher was reminded that God also calls us to shed the …

… beam in your own eye?" Well, it seems to me that while I may have a beam, Trump has a sequoia tree, and I have to forgive him so I can get it out of my head. Trump hasn't hurt me personally. …

… have responded to the call to care for the earth. One shared focus across faiths has been trees. Many Shinto shrines are found in forests, which are then viewed as sacred, leading in … In November 2019, Sikhs celebrated the 550th birthday of Guru Nanak by planting 1 million trees. Catholic dioceses and groups in Africa have also emphasized tree plantings. Since the early 1990s, some Buddhists have ordained trees, wrapping traditional …

… Martha Hunt about her advocacy for people with scoliosis. Talk about not falling far from the tree! [Michael Sean Winters covers the nexus of religion and politics for NCR.] … Editor's note:  …

… made nests for doves set for sale. He also directed his companions not to cut down the entire tree when gathering firewood and to set aside a portion of the garden for wildflowers to bloom. … all creatures — and not merely those nonhuman animals we classify as sentient, but rocks and trees alike — his sisters and brothers because, in a real sense,  they are ," Horan said, adding …

… Francis' feast day — we can help restore what humans have destroyed. "Every time we plant a tree or restore a wetland, get involved in a reforestation project or improve some degraded … Water, Brother Fire and our Sister Mother Earth, as St. Francis wrote . And we can plant a tree, like the little boy who is working with this family to create a mangrove swamp in the Sept. …

… justice is a painful reminder that we must not be people who lose sight of the forest for the trees. This particular tree of racial injustice does not exist alone, but grew in a diseased and malfunctioning forest, … is also just a symptom of a broader systemic illness — it is one horrifying, radioactive tree that appears in hindsight to be all but inevitable considering the toxic level of structural …

… — but it should be," Durnbaugh said. While other initiatives, like solar energy or planting trees, garner a lot of attention as solutions to limit climate change, Durnbaugh said that one of …

… encounter with Jesus. Nathaniel is startled when Jesus says that he has seen him under a fig tree. The passage is rich with biblical references to Jacob’s dream of angels and implies that Nathaniel had been meditating under a fig tree about this story from Genesis 28. He realizes that Jesus has seen him in mystical prayer, …

… once covered with magnificent forests. Under Spanish and French colonial control, however, the trees were cut down for export to Europe or to make way for huge sugar plantations. Today, many of the remaining trees are being felled to produce charcoal that's shipped to Port-au-Prince and other cities for … mean children like Jeslaine growing up in a country where everyone could sit under their own tree, in peace and unafraid. Jeslaine has a lot of trees to plant. How can we help her? … For …

… Racial diversity is part of God's plan, because, for Jackson , "God did not make one type of tree or flower or fish or horse or grass or rock." The inviolable value of human life and the …