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My new perch
… Luke's Gospel story of Zacchaeus, the stature-challenged tax collector who climbed a sycamore tree to get a better view of Jesus as he worked his way through the crowds. The effort paid off … The cutting edge can be dangerous, but that is where NCR sat." The cutting edge, the limb of a tree -- pick your metaphor -- that is still where NCR sits. And it is where I now sit, too. I'm …
Luminosity
… "No," answered the rabbi. Another student asked, "Is it when you can distinguish between a fig tree and a grapevine?" Again the answer was, "No." "Please tells us the answer then," said the …
The Bill Maher interview of Bishop Morrie you'll never see
… you believe in a fairy tale god who kills his own son because some stooge ate an apple off his tree, a god who hates gays and loves slavery and oppresses women, and, don't let me forget, … that erupts into madness. The story of Adam and Eve is not a fairy tale about an apple tree but a metaphor for the way we are. We feel guilty just for being alive, for our hubris, and …
Holiday hospital stay brings an incarnate experience of powerless nativity
… but along with a few other things flashing before my eyes, I saw the presents under the tree, heard "Silent Night" at Christmas Eve Mass, smelled the turkey in the oven, and felt the … days when other people are returning items, shopping for sales and prematurely putting their trees out for the garbage men. Just as quickly as those thoughts came, they disappeared. Instead … himself and our sons under his other arm. The first gift was a small, frosted glass Christmas tree that lit up from within and cast changing colors on my tray side table. There was also a …
Cardinal Tagle calls for a Christmas of solidarity and communion
… screening for its rebuilding campaign. Members of the Basic Christian Communities used felled trees for wall panels and pews for the chapels, and local artists painted murals on the altar …
Christmas calls us to be present
… kids build snowmen; toddlers fall asleep in perfect alignment under a perfectly decorated tree. In each scene, we see a teenage boy with his head down, his eyes glued to his handsome new …
Nuns bring Christmas joy to Vietnamese orphans, disadvantaged children
… celebration. Shopping centers attract customers with Christmas carols and decorations of trees, Santa Claus, angels, reindeers and snowmen. On Dec. 10, the Vietnam Record Book Center granted a certificate to the country's tallest Christmas tree, which is 98 feet tall, weighs 5 tons and is strung with 100,000 LED lights. The tree is located in a major urban area in Hanoi. [Joachim Pham is an NCR correspondent based in …
The yearly Christmas letter demands a good editor
… to mine. In it, he described his mother, sitting in a rocking chair near the Christmas tree, reading the annual Nussbaum missive by the twinkling lights and "weeping over her own …
Christmas goes green in two new children’s books
… Ripley Heights realtor, Upton is intent on purchasing Old Joe Greenwood’s Hickory Flats family tree farm and forest for development. But before he cashes in on the project, he rips up the … for the first time in his profit-driven life the luminous forest for what it really is. The trees sing to Upton, who hears “their subtly exquisite music.” Joining in the chorus are Mert, … Bowman said she “always tended to see ‘being’ in things, even inanimate things like evergreen trees, ever since I was a kid.” A Renaissance woman who -- along with writing -- draws, paints, …
Jesus came to preach reconciliation and healing
… Abraham from these very stones." Then John said, "The axe is already laid to the roots of the trees, and any tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown in the fire." John was foreseeing …