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Italian filmmakers: 'Life can be very different...things can change'
… Paul. Luca: He quoted Saint Paul about bad times [2000 years ago], and he gave a metaphor, “A tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.” And that was perfect. It was the …
MSW Responds to Professor George
… sense of affinity with an embryo, an embryo is not an acorn and will not grow up to be an oak tree. So, it is I, not the Church, who makes that argument. And, I find it is sometimes … And, Freeman Dyson hopes that we can solve the problem by genetically engineering really big trees that would soak up all the excess carbon dioxide. This idea might prove possible … worldwide, who would pay the price is Professor Dyson’s genetically engineered super trees fail. If Professor George wishes to spend the rest of the year impersonating William …
Putting our money where our faith is by divesting from fossil fuels
… and the most vulnerable will continue to suffer increased health problems from pollution. The trees, animals and even rocks groan, waiting for the children of God to do and say what their …
Exhibit encourages viewers, religious and secular, to 'Meet Mary'
… hand gesture in di Credi's painting and that of Eve below, reaching for the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. However fine some of the examples of works are in the exhibit -- which the …
Book on Victorian life injects reality into TV's high holy days
… like Oak Alley in Vacherie, La. One can almost picture the Earl of Grantham coming down the tree-lined approach to the house, his faithful dog trotting alongside him. In Baton Rouge, we …
Contra Christiansen & Aldajani, Part I
… Edens, I who lost paradise twice. So expel me slowly, and kill me slowly, under my olive tree Christiansen and Aldajani follow this quote with the remarkable observation: “The …
Return to Nicaragua finds the flame of solidarity still alight
… the main boulevard and sprinkled throughout the city are massive lighted sculptures called Trees of Life, the brainchild of Rosario Murillo, the quirky poet and wife of President Daniel …
Microfinance, savings groups seed success for Uganda farmers
… tellers speaking in hushed tones. This bank is a faded blanket spread beneath a mango tree where a circle of women, hardworking passion fruit farmers, sit with their feet tucked under …
Our lives are full of preparation. At what point do we get to savor?
… that those aware of the 12 days of Christmas use this knowledge to complain that the Christmas trees are taken down too soon instead of as an opportunity to talk about the relevance of a … Yet by the fourth day of Christmas, I saw information about where to dispose of my Christmas tree properly and New Year's solutions coupled with conversations of how we ate too much for the …
Only by loving, serving others can people come to know God, pope says
… God's love for his children always comes before their love for him, somewhat like the almond tree flower, he said, which is the first to bloom before the coming spring. "We will always have …
After graduation, student hopes to take social justice work to the next level
… from your village in Africa. … Why this one? … Because I think it is the seed from which the tree of human flourishing can blossom. People can't be educated if they are hungry; they can't …