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… of police blocked them. “We yelled, saying we know what the rainforest is, the medicines, the trees, the fruits. It’s sacred. We know what’s happened in other places. Indigenous are dying. …

… 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 …

… "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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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, the young tree protagonist intent on spreading the Christmas spirit and saving the forest, his cat pal, …

… 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 …

… were children. Other notable shifts from the past include: 79 percent say they'll put up a tree, compared with 92 percent who recall doing so in their childhood. 65 percent expect to send …

… all these asks are recounting wonderful accomplishments. Meals served, surgeries performed, trees planted, newspapers published. Nonprofits do a lot of work. My small organization …

… that allows her to appreciate being part of God's creation -- the breezes rustling the trees, the wildlife, the food she raises, the star-studded night sky and yes, her two friendly …

… Robed in dreadful majesty; Those who set at naught and sold Him, Pierced and nailed Him to the tree, Deeply wailing, deeply wailing, deeply wailing, Shall the true Messiah see. Every island, …

… can do to cultivate the season of Advent in the heart. In my family, we may buy the Christmas tree a few days in advance, so the branches can drop, but we decorate it on Christmas Eve only. …

… the Pentagon hoped, from Latin demonstrations. In 1983, Father Roy and two other men climbed a tree near the new barracks and played a tape of Archbishop Oscar Romero's final homily, spoken …

… just like four years ago, that the microscopic examination could miss the forest for the trees. In both cases, the real novelty is that the documents are acts of synthesis, weaving …

… words, “In overthrowing me you have to cut down in St. Domingue only the trunk of the tree of liberty; it will spring up again from the roots, for they are many and they are deep.” …

… to safer ground as wind and water threatened all he had: rice fields on 2 acres, some coconut trees and a little house. He stayed there as the tempest wound its gnarled hand around a coconut …