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… 06172016p16pha.jpg THE FAMILY TREE: A LYNCHING IN GEORGIA, A LEGACY OF SECRETS, AND MY SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH By Karen Branan … involved in that heinous crime. But it did, and they were. That's the territory of The Family Tree , which offers a compelling story of evil performed by supposedly good, churchgoing people …

… bee balm and hyssop stand root to root with the daylilies, and along the stair railing tree lilies waft their powerful scent down the block. For about three weeks, our front garden is …

… Native forests threatened by genetically engineered trees …

… so too living species are part of a network which we will never fully explore and understand." Trees are one of those interconnected nodes in that network inhabiting the universe that know … age, he added, 'Sometimes pairs like this are so interconnected at the roots that when one tree dies, the other one dies, too.'”  I've been holding onto the article for weeks, waiting for … Catholics join Earth Day effort to plant 7.8 billion trees Catholics join Earth Day effort to plant 7.8 billion trees …

… into the air and water. They stayed with us for over a week and decorated our first Christmas tree. Since then, the guests have kept coming, as our proximity to Philadelphia and the highways …

… focusing on discussions of the encyclical; community action, such as a recycling project and tree planting; and a Mass for creation. The St. John Neumann Creation Care Team of the Atlanta …

… so quick to judge and dismiss it now." Back at St. Andrews, the North Sea wind rustles the trees and bushes outside the ancient Divinity School, where a statue of the university's founder, …

… Paradise or images of Jesus, but images of demons, flying fish, bodily torment, a cryptic tree-man and a great bird-devil who consumes humans and then defecates them into a gaping hole in … Waldo?" but with darker colors and beasts scattered around a surreal landscape of dead trees, burning cities and ruined castles. And also: There's no Waldo. Part of Bosch's appeal is …

… started, the family donated $5,000 and a stack of the children's classic "The Giving Tree." It tells the story of a selfless tree that sacrificed its leaves, limbs and trunk for a boy. "Even when the tree had nothing to …

… said I'hon, who is thin and dressed shabbily. She and her husband cultivate some 50 banana trees on their farm. She gives the nuns five to seven bunches of bananas each time (about 100 …

… encyclical "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home" and peace medallion depicting an olive tree holding together two pieces of a fractured rock. After meeting the pope, the grand imam was …

… and complicated. Brothers start out in competition and some never stop. Brothers are like trees that start out adjacent but have to grow apart to eat enough light. Brothers worship each … by hawks and we always would be, even after one of us was ashes in a stone box under an oak tree. We talked about how often you can see better with your soul than you can with your eyes in …

… a writer needs readers and in this era of Google Analytics, a writer knows when she's that tree that falls in the woods when no one is around. Additionally, a writer's name is rarely …

… "Catholic identity" at Notre Dame, again besmirched the name of one of the most beautiful of trees. The best response to these critics came in the speeches given by Biden and Boehner. Both …

… to the point where, teetering on the verge of conversion, he flung himself down beneath a fig tree and cried out, “Why not now?” and the dramatic tension gave way. My history class assignment … I was enlightened by a student's observation that the Confessions is a "story about two trees." As a Christian spirituality scholar, I have been taken aback by the number of recorded …

… to gaze in fascination as freshening breezes blew through the tall oak, elm and catalpa trees that lined our slumbering street. I sensed a secret presence there for which I had no name. … if this experience was a throwback to my archetypal German reverence for the sacredness of trees (!), I now intuit that something greater is afoot. Something ineffable, gentle and …

… in a Break Free march to a local sporting complex where they celebrated Mass. Under shade trees and umbrellas, emblazoned with messages of “no coal” and “break free,” they sought relief …

… Diocese of Little Rock. An Italian carpenter on the expedition ordered the men to chop down a tree that he could make into a cross. Once built, about 100 men helped stand the cross upright, …

… blessed those who had washed their robes, and also said that these had the right to the tree of life and the right to enter the holy, eternal city through its open gates (Revelation …

… his best friends at a beautiful lake high in Rocky Mountain National Park and sat down under a tree and passed peacefully. At other times, they are difficult and tragic, like the ice climber …