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In 'Advent Reflections,' young composer sets sister's poetry to music
… (If such a thing were possible.) I wait, and will not be dismayed. For tiny shoot of Jesse tree took root in me to love transform, give sight, set free. The inquiry led to a conversation … us back to you. O Adonai, set us free of fear, despair, misogyny. O Justice Flower, of Jesse tree, uproot our hatreds. Wash us clean in just-reign waters, plant us deep in Thee. O Key of …
Relics mean something, but they don't mean everything
… the Last Supper. And that someone saved the ax George Washington used to chop down the cherry tree and, while they were at it, also preserved his wooden teeth. (Good luck with both of those …
A life of great perseverance
… driveway behind a movie theater to stroll among the quiet, well-maintained graves, shadowed by trees. In the back of the cemetery, overlooking the rest of the tombstones, stands a tall cross. …
Review: "Walking God's Earth"
… to Christians but it is different: “We should not imagine our ancestors actually believed that trees were gods. What they sensed was that nature made the spiritual appear, connecting us to its …
SOA Watch marks 25th year of speaking out against 'School of Assassins'
… directly to the Salvadorans. They sneaked onto the base in military uniforms, climbed a pine tree near the Salvadoran barracks, and broadcast a recording of Romero's last homily, in which he … the treetops in the middle of the night, military police with dogs and M-16s swarmed under the tree, cursing and threatening to shoot down the three trespassers. The homily played on and on … Rosebaugh, gagging Ventimiglia, and striking Bourgeois from behind and throwing him against a tree. They were all given maximum sentences by U.S. District Court Judge J. Robert Elliott, known …
Are we all Noahs?
… or at least our spiritual imagination is. We long for a bow in the sky, a dove on the tree. Part of us goes back to work. We sign petitions, march in the streets, write articles and …
Plan to expand mountaintop mine heightens residents' flooding concerns
… to blasting. Surface mining is another name for mountaintop removal mining, in which trees are clear cut, topsoil is removed and the tops of mountains are dynamited to expose rich …
UN report: As climate warms, poverty will grow
… a change in migratory patterns and activities of freshwater and marine species, increased tree mortality worldwide, and more frequent instances of extreme weather. In addition, the report …
Despite long mining history, poverty straps many in West Virginia
… some badly needing repair, crowd portions of the roadway, dwarfed by forested coal-laden and tree-covered mountains that tower over the valley cut by the river. Telltale signs of mining mark …
Big Laurel Learning Center a mountain oasis surrounded by coal mining
… maybe 20 ruby-throated hummingbirds dart back and forth from the lowest branches of the maple trees to the feeders on the front porch of the mountaintop home shared by Sr. Kathleen O'Hagan …
21-year-old's photos create a time capsule of 1964 in Mississippi
… If a white man killed them to make an example of them, they would've left them hanging from a tree, that's the way to make an example of them." The bluster in that sentence conceals what the …