Advent 2: Is This Good News?
This Advent, let’s not settle for a sentimental Christmas season.
Getting Through A Christmas of Grief
I wish I had had this book six years ago, when my mother was dying.
Waiting for God in Sanctuary
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To prepare for Christmas is to remember Mary and Joseph’s dream and the civil disobedience it inspired.
The Wrong Choice? An Advent Meditation
Did Mary make a wrong choice? We know how the story ends, but viscerally I cannot fathom the toll her son’s suffering took upon her life.
Disarm Our Hearts: An Advent Prayer
May Your spirit of love and nonviolence fill our hearts and the hearts of people everywhere.
Lamenting the Lost Hope of Advent
Advent is the season of hope, the season of waiting for the coming of Christ. But how do you offer hope when the Church itself is the oppressor?
Keep Watch: Peacemaking Through Advent
This Advent reader won’t just give you comfort and joy; it will tell you the truth of waiting.
The Challenge of the Manger in Bethlehem
BY: TOBIAS ROBERTS --From opulent shopping malls in the Unites States to corners of crumbling adobe houses in rural...
Singing Mary's Song
BY: TOM MCCROSSAN -- Mary’s song (Luke 1:46-55) is an expression of great faith and humble gratitude. It is the outpouring of a soul...
Noting a Woman’s Body
God knows women’s bodies always have a way of getting our attention. This is not breaking news. But in the past two weeks two storylines have been breaking out and gaining traction on the female body, and...