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Many scientists believe there is a common thread in this crazy-quilt weather, some fair, some foul, some just puzzling. It is a phenomenon known in Spanish as El Niño, a reference to the Christ child. Named by the fishermen of Peru and Ecuador, El Niño is a warm current of equatorial water that usually appears around Christmas off western South America. The peculiar ocean movement sharply reduces the fish catch, especially anchovies, which are ground up and sold as meal for livestock and poultry. The present El Niño, which first appeared last June...
...pondered over this, she says, she felt "a call" to study religion. She followed it and enrolled in the Divinity School soon after, but has yet to choose a denomination; she is considering being ordained as a parish minister in either the United Church of Christ or the Unitarian Universalists. "It changes every week," she jokes...
...memorial to the individuals who gave money for the Trident project. Kim Harvie, a second year MDiv students and one of those arrested, points to the symbolism of staging the witness on Good Friday, a time of renewal and re-birth, both of the earth and, for Christians of Christ...
...mistakes in the council's political judgments and believes the attacks result from "our firm and unwavering adherence to Gospel as our churches interpret it." Says the Rev. Randolph Nugent, who runs the Methodists' Board of Global Ministries: "Our only bias is toward the Gospel of Jesus Christ, not any political system. Jesus Christ and the Gospel do have a bias toward the poor...