![](/files/styles/author_page_bio_photo_220x220_/public/authors/Jon%20Magnuson%20CROP.jpg?itok=aqiE30Vs)
Search
Ecumenical Christian service in DC calls for cease-fire in Gaza
… and for humanitarian aid for Gaza. The service culminated in a walk to the National Christmas Tree outside the White House. Speaking about the civilian infrastructure in Gaza that has been … of Church and Society. After the church service, the group walked to the National Christmas Tree, where they tried to make their voices heard over the space's music. The protesters' song of …
How Charlie Brown's Christmas tree brings us back to Earth
… stage after reciting the Christmas story, in the slight pause after Charlie Brown "kills" the tree, and most powerfully, when Charlie Brown sees the resurrected tree — a pause, a hop of … of the most important characters. We meet the Earth in the opening scene: falling snow, bare trees and snow banks around the frozen pond. The Earth appears throughout, most notably at the … follow into the silence. The tree leads the Peanuts back to the Earth, the communion of trees and dancing stars. Is this some sort of intentional ecological message on the part of the …
Lebanon's Christians feel the heat of climate change in its sacred forest and valley
… Kareem Chehayeb … The Associated Press … Majestic cedar trees towered over dozens of Lebanese Christians gathered outside a small mid-19th century chapel … awareness of nature, engrained since their ancestors took refuge here. "When you violate that tree, you're intruding on a long history, and possibly the future of your children," he said. …
Disney's 'Wish' speaks to our God-given desires
… way? Asha's questions earn Magnifico's disdain. She flees her home in favor of an old tree on which she used to sit and dream with her late father. It's there that she makes the …
Aaron Neville on singing, crashing and St. Jude
… in 1979, I interviewed New Orleans rhythm-and-blues singer Aaron Neville under his favored tree by the Audubon Park lagoon. He came ambling down the park road in gym shorts, track shoes …
An archdiocese in Kenya advocates for river conservation among local communities
… leaders," he told Earthbeat in Nyeri. Another threat to the river is the growing of eucalyptus trees along the banks by farmers who try to sell the trees for timber. Experts say they require a lot of water and contribute to the decreasing water level. In other countries, the government has banned eucalyptus trees along river banks. Some even cut the trees down without informing the owners. Activities …
Despite challenges, promise of Advent shines bright into our darkness
… time when many species of birds have left our shores for warmer climes. It is a time when trees have shed their leaves, and very few flowers are in bloom. For me, this is a time of … because I know that in spring the birds will return, albeit in fewer numbers these days. The trees and flowers will blossom forth again just as I know that the darkness of the longest night …
Turkey, our national bird of gratitude, carries the seeds for a new world
… , should incorporate a wild turkey and an Indigenous role, just as the Capitol Christmas Tree has in various years . Despite what seems like growing upheaval in the world, it would help …
On Croagh Patrick: Lessons from scaling and descending a holy mountain
… almost no one. The mountain had a few streams with some green vegetation, but there were no trees, only various types of rock and a few sheep. Every now and then I had stopped to observe, … first by God coming down at Christmas, then by Jesus asking Zaccheus to come down out of the tree, and finally in Mark's Gospel, where people cut through a roof to lower a friend down to … may be felt with our feet — to "grow down" is essential. The height of a 90-foot sycamore tree is impressive, but its impressive height is only possible because the seedling in the dirt …
Climate science denial rife at launch of Jordan Peterson's ARC project
… and the anti-human nature of what's going on, [which suggests that] if not for humans the trees and the moths would be fine: human beings are not the problem, we're the point." The ARC …
Economic impacts of climate change drive workers in Bangladesh to modern slavery
… were destroyed," she said. "Water was running through the room. We were tying the cot to the tree to prevent it from being swept away by the current." After a year living in temporary …
In Benin, Voodoo's birthplace, believers bemoan steady shrinkage of forests they revere as sacred
… born, or in the first months of their lives. Barren women performed Voodoo rituals by sacred trees to get pregnant. Others were brought as newborns by parents seeking to ward off evil … years later, he sits on the gravel road where the forest once stood, beside the two remaining trees the community salvaged. They're cordoned off behind a concrete wall in hopes they won't be … drinking blessed water or gin, eating cola nuts or sitting in a sacred spot, such as inside a tree. "The sacred forest is a vital area," said Dada Daagbo Hounon Hounan II, the Supreme …
Pope Francis calls for a cease-fire in Israeli-Hamas war
… their flocks and now with the start of olive-picking season, also farmers tending their trees. On Oct. 22, for the first time, settlers threatened and beat farmers from Christ the … olives near the city of Nablus. On Oct. 28, only three families were out picking their trees and only on lands close to the village with their cars facing in the direction of the …
Video: Laudato Trees planting program enlists Catholic properties to help increase DC's canopy
… a Green Church" series with a brand new video including interviews and footage of the Laudato Trees program in Washington, D.C. As NCR environment correspondent Brian Roewe reported in the original coverage : "Laudato Trees — a play on the name of Pope Francis' 2015 encyclical " Laudato Si' , on Care for Our …
Synod enters final week recalling Vatican II and the church's 'living tradition'
… is organic and ecological rather than competitive," he said. "It is more like planting a tree than winning a battle, and as such will be hard for many to understand, sometimes including …
Aging Catholic sisters in US, Ireland continue mission through impact investing
… agency Vita , whose Laudato Si' -aligned projects in Ethiopia will also see millions of trees planted in the East African country. The investment in Vita's projects, which also … Ethiopia. This generated 2 million tons of carbon emissions' savings and saw up to 5 million trees saved or planted, Vita said. The resulting carbon offsets were purchased by Irish and … carbon offsets. Weakliam explained that clean water does not have to be boiled, thus saving trees from being cut down and burned to heat the water. Additionally, the fuel-efficient …
Letters to the editor on gender equity and the synod
… reminds me of my boyhood. My nine- and 10-year-old pals and I would build hideouts and tree forts in the forest out of scrap wood and cardboard and nearly always tack a sign up …
In the pope's homeland, more Argentines are seeking spiritual answers beyond the church
… knowledge that sees God or a divine power manifesting in nature. "God is the wind, the trees, the animals," she said. "He's everywhere." Ana Ottobre, 27, grew up singing in a Catholic …
Illinois parish dedicates prairie restoration project to St. Francis
… , which recounted the very beginning of the prairie: the creation of plants and fruit-bearing trees, and then God's gift of his creation to mankind. "See, I give you every seed-bearing plant on all the earth and every tree that has seed-bearing fruit on it to be your food." After a psalm, Fr. Carlos Saligumba, … District for 15 years. They started by clearing out the "unwanted, non-native" shrubs and trees to admit sunlight. They conducted yearly prescribed burns after obtaining an open burning …
Teaching fish farming in Zimbabwe produces food, income, enthusiasm
… limits. Without access to any energy systems, they have increasingly resorted to cutting down trees for firewood, which only adds to the climate crisis. Having young women in our congregation …