Brenna Davis

Simple Advent Revisited: This Christmas Season, we welcome the Holy Family into our hearts and invite Jesus to help clear out whatever prevents us from living gently on the earth.

Simple Advent Revisited: Whether joining a local food or energy co-op, promoting public transportation or standing for justice, we have a responsibility to normalize simple living.

Simple Advent Revisited: Early Christians show us a model of how community can bring about true abundance, where resources were shared so no one lacked what was required to flourish.

Simple Advent Revisited: You're likely reading this on your computer or phone. But consider taking a tech sabbath as a way to make space for stillness and God.

Simple Advent Revisited: The average person in the United States owns over 300,000 items. Advent is a time to break our attachment to inconsequential things.

Simple Advent Revisited: As we enter this third week of Advent, how can you make space to rejoice and express gratitude for the gifts already present in your life? 

Simple Advent Revisited: In this world, human beings live at each other's expense, and often hardships faced by the poor make possible the comfort of those who are not.

Simple Advent Revisited: We need to look at our patterns of consumption and reevaluate the ways we use that resource called money.

Simple Advent Revisited: As the sun sets, turn off the lights. Sit and stare at a candle. Read, pray, stretch, shower or do whatever it is that will help you unwind and slow down.

Simple Advent Revisited: Taking moments to intentionally pause during your day can invite you into a simpler way of living, and help us see what matters most in our lives.

Simple Advent Revisited: The weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas can become some of the busiest and most stressful of the year. Slowing things down can open space for the things that really matter.

Simple Advent Revisited: The Advent season is here again. How are you being called to simplify and live abundantly in preparation of the joyful hope of Christmas?

The Season of Creation reminds us that all of creation — including plant and animal life — has a right to the continued existence of their homes and special places.

We must tend the embers of the spiritual fires that sustain us and illuminate the life-giving path forward.

A story of prayerful resilience inspires reflection: How are we called to work for clear air and a healthy planet?

Breathing is such an unconscious act that it is easy to forget that air is a sacred gift.

When I am wandering in the desert, I have to remind myself that God promises us living waters that will never fail if we ask for them.

How often do we take clean, running water for granted? What about our faith? Drought is a reminder that both water and faith are gifts from God.

As God blesses us abundantly with water, we are invited to make a return in gratitude, to ensure that this gift continues to flow through the world. 

When we walk on the land where we live with attentiveness to its holiness, we are sometimes granted the grace to experience God's love for us through particular parts of creation.