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… neutral writers enter their own spins, everyone is forgetting about the forest and the trees. It is about the Amazon Basin, not about married priests or women deacons. Except it is. …

… before and needs to learn to identify what he is seeing.  He sees people, but they are like “trees walking.” Jesus then touches his eyes and he sees clearly. What a fascinating moment this …

… sacred firs of the wooded forests that border Michoacán and Mexico states provide a blanket of trees for the insects where temperatures stay regulated. When the monarchs arrive, the tree branches droop from the weight of the butterflies, camouflaging the trees in a breathtaking splattering of black and orange. The monarchs then wait out the winter …

… register while you called the Pharisees blind guides and hypocrites? And the poor accursed fig tree?" A look at Jesus' life leads us to question whether he really meant we should never get …

… He presents a vision of the Catholic Church in the Amazon united in defense of its tribes, trees, tradition and tributaries, offering an example for the wider church to adopt in other …

… disciples only to corrupt their minds and prevent them from knowing the truth. They are like trees that produce bad fruit instead of the good fruit their roles as guides intended. The …

… habitats. Water flows and vegetation will change, and carbon emissions will rise as  burning trees release carbon  and fewer living trees are left to pull CO2 out of the air and store it. In many ways, it's the definition of a … transport systems, essentially choking them to death. Warming also increases outbreaks of tree-killing insects. And logging, as well as land-clearing fires in the Amazon are threatening …

… The Mishnah (the original portion of the Talmud) calls Tu B'Shvat the New Year of the Trees, and because of that, the holiday in modern times morphed into a Jewish Arbor Day dedicated especially to planting trees in Israel. Over the past few decades, Jewish environmentalists have combined the mystics' …

… the end, David’s lieutenant, Joab, kills Absalom when his hair is caught in the branches of a tree as he flees on the mule. When word reaches him, David is inconsolable.  The violence he has …

… witnesses, you can bet that Holocaust denial will only grow, and a new branch of the evil tree of anti-Semitism will bear new poisonous fruit. The motto "never again" is in the headlines …

… that an estimated 350 species are going extinct every day. "We are breaking twigs off of the tree of life," she told me. The Australian fires may have lopped off several branches. Johnson's …

… national security adviser. Pence then presented the pope with a wooden cross "made from a tree at the vice president's residence." "Every other vice president since Walter Mondale has …

… We are not telling you to “offset your emissions” by just paying someone else to plant trees in places like Africa while at the same time forests like the Amazon are being slaughtered at an infinitely higher rate. Planting trees is good, of course, but it’s nowhere near enough of what is needed and it cannot replace …

… system. We constructed raised concrete buildings that could be used as cyclone shelters. Many trees have been planted," he said. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has repeatedly told the U.N. and …

… rabbi. Experience and learn about Jewish worship, culture and the Talmud. I hate cutting down trees, but could we have printed copies of Nostra Aetate at the end of every pew? 4. Journey to …

… for all parishes.  Roof configurations, local historic district limitations and even tree coverage can stand in the way in some places. There are other ways to go green, though, such …

… their backyards.  This  New York Times analysis  of the linkage of paper usage to the roles of trees in absorbing carbon got me thinking about Dawn Araujo-Hawkins’ Small Earth Story about her  …

… announcing itself with an invisible, eternal presence. I kept coming back to a particular tree, hundreds of feet tall, weathered branches like old gnarled limbs gesturing into the sky. Wind and time had stripped most of its bark so that the tree displayed large patches the color of pure snow. There was something haunting and beautiful in its bearing. I sensed the tree had something to teach me: a strange feeling. I'm an urban denizen who spends far too little …

… Now she's surrounded by cement in a metropolitan area of 5 million people, with barely a tree in sight. It's a hard life for this tiny woman, now 70, who stood in the way of a … her time between the city and her little brick house in the village, surrounded with fruit trees and flowers, and tried not hear when bulldozers began cutting through the hills. "The media …

… 7. O'Dwyer, 36, and fellow firefighter Geoffrey Keaton, 32, were killed Dec. 19 when a fallen tree caused their tanker to roll as they fought fires south of Sydney. The Order of Malta …