Word: earthen
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Many service groups originate with religious organizations as well, such as "Earthen Vessels," a tutoring program pairing Harvard students with at-risk elementary school students in the community. Groups such as these take to heart the important religious goals of "repairing the world" and serving the needy and forgotten. Some students put their beliefs into practice in other groups; students "do it for free" at PBHA because they want to help others and because returning some of their good fortune of circumstance and education is important to them...
...dawn walk in Ollantaytambo, I trekked to the edge of the town and followed the earthen canal back through small fields to an area known as the royal baths. The 700-year-old watercourse speeds alongside a walkway before dipping underground to re-emerge over a huge cut stone with small man-made channels that project two cascading spouts of cool, clear water. Above, a young couple claims rights to the day's first ascent of the terraced ruins. For a moment I imagine what it might have been like to live under the Incan lords. Later my guide...
Sanchez combines her faith with her commitment to social justice in the Earthen Vessels, a St. Paul's outreach tutoring program that pairs undergraduates with teens from Roxbury and Dorchester...
According to Marie-Claude Thompson, director of Earthen Vessels and a chaplain at St. Paul's Sanchez's help has been invaluable...
...must necessarily betray the scale and grandeur of the war, the planners try to finesse the problem. They provide a large, covered exhibition area--suitable for exploring the larger historical, cultural and, of course, military story of the war--to accompany the memorial, housed partly underground beneath the massive earthen berms...