In my article from a couple of weeks ago, I championed the idea of a simpler Advent season that shifted the idea of giving Christmas gifts to the needy rather than those with plenty. That idea tops my gift-giving list, but I also include alternatives that come with small(er) carbon footprints: My top suggestion remainsContinue reading “Simple Christmas Gifts”
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Quick and Dirty Fashion
In the first chapter of Laudato Si‘, Pope Francis refers to “a throwaway culture which affects the excluded just as it quickly reduces things to rubbish.” We donate our unwanted clothes in the hopes that they will be used by those in need. But do we really know what happens to them? I never thoughtContinue reading “Quick and Dirty Fashion”
Saint Francis of Assisi at St John the Evangelist 