As a child, sometimes I woke in the morning to a thumping sound from the living room, as though someone was hitting the floor with a wooden mallet. That sound...
Environment
I have never been a gardener. Despite my best intentions, any plants I try to tend typically wither up and die before I can enjoy the fruits of my labor...
The crab waits beneath the flat stone where the corn is being ground for the traditional drink, chicheme. If crabs get confused, then I suppose this is a...
Talking about faith and plastic together seems like talking about apples and oranges. Or two even further extremes: maybe apples and giraffes. But for Sasha...
In the age of social media, something that dominates news coverage one day can soon slip our collective consciousness as coverage shifts to something new. And...
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum thinks that the pope should just leave climate change to the scientists. Let’s ignore for the moment the fact...
What with Pope Francis’ imminent encyclical on the environment, there’s been a lot of talk about environmentalism and the importance of caring for the earth...
c. 2015 Religion News Service (RNS) Catholic environmental groups from around the world on Wednesday (January 14) announced a new global network to battle...
Over the Labor Day weekend, I ventured from the concrete jungle of Chicago to my home state of Minnesota. The contrast between in my childhood home—which I...
Today’s the official day to save the planet! (Not that you shouldn’t be doing little things to help the earth out every day.) Regardless...
