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Pope meets with Colombian leaders at odds on peace deal
… orchids are a symbol of peace." The pope gave Santos a peace medallion depicting an olive tree holding together two pieces of a fractured rock along with a copy of his message for the …
Missionaries taught theology in Imagery
… robed reclining figure of St. Peter Nolasco cannot be sleeping soundly or dreaming sweetly. A tree has sprouted from his left side, and no fewer than 36 friars stand on leaf platforms formed … such as the Tree of Jesse and the Tree of Life, which also mapped out families or dynasties on trees, this mid-18th century “Genealogical Tree of the Mercedarian Order” by an unknown painter …
The only way to overcome violence is love
… raise children for Abraham from these stones. Look, the axe is already put to the roots of the trees. Any tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down, thrown in the fire." John was a prophet …
Sharing stories of sexual abuse 'helps to heal the hurt'
… area near our homes. One of the boys decided he needed to relieve himself and peed against a tree. Another boy followed. One of the boys who was there lived across the street from me. He was …
Author Frida Berrigan encourages 'modest work' in wake of election
… bring back the basketball court, build small houses, turn it into a vegetable garden, build a tree house, plant a blueberry patch. A meeting was called. The organizers were hoping for 10 …
Climate action gets smaller, one oasis at a time
… Hurricane Sandy four years ago, placing us among the impacted, but there are still lots of trees, plenty of water, decent air quality. (There is often a strange competition for "most … cartoon terms. You surely know the stubble-bearded man, stranded on an island with only a palm tree and himself. He may fully represent American individualism, run amok. Oases are actually … management of water and ground resources as well as a close partnership with the date palm tree. RADDO, "the voice of the oases," speaks of the way climate change is adversely impacting …
Mary Daly exposed the slimy underbelly of religion's treatment of women
… charges: that Christianity is inherently necrophilic because it worships a dead man on a dead tree, that Shel Silverstein's classic children's book The Giving Tree is really about how men destroy women with their greed and selfishness, that American …
Second Sunday of Advent
… better not pout…” but the reward he promises for conversion is not at all like a tinseled tree surrounded by toys and electronics. John is indeed promising a reward, but it’s one that … then calls us to take all of those lofty ideals and make them as concrete as the fruits of the trees to which the world looks for nourishment. We don’t have to live like John the Baptist to be … mindset. He wasn’t saying that there was no good in his society. There were fruit-bearing trees, and there was wheat as well as chaff, but it was time for a major shakeup. John wanted …
Announcing the coming
… better not pout ..." but the reward he promises for conversion is not at all like a tinseled tree surrounded by toys and electronics. CEL_Dec042016.jpg John is indeed promising a reward, but … then calls us to take all of those lofty ideals and make them as concrete as the fruits of the trees to which the world looks for nourishment. We don't have to live like John the Baptist to be …
Store on busy road invigorates Nairobi women's peacemaking group
… of Nairobi, used to sit on a blanket and make their beaded handicrafts under the shade of a tree in the church courtyard. But with the arrival of a new store in a converted container, …