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The Advent Within: Preparing Our Hearts

Advent is a season often hidden in plain sight. The four candles of the Advent wreath and the colorful changes to the altar’s hangings...

Advent Invites Us to a Better Eschatology

Ours is a world with no shortage of injustice. All too often Christian churches have had a hand in fomenting and preserving it, though...

What Is Advent For?

Then they will see “the Son of Man coming in a cloud” with power and great glory. - Luke 21:27 In Advent, the preacher faces the...

The Fruit of Anticipation

A few weeks ago, I had the immense privilege of attending a historic football game at Lambeau Field. A friend of my parish offered to...

The Audacious Hope of Advent

Content warning: Miscarriage. The defining feature of my life right now is that I am pregnant. Almost every casual conversation starts with either a “Congratulations!”...

Watching and Waiting

"Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or...

Lingering on the Banks of the Jordan

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, as it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “Behold, I am sending...

What Do Christians Make of Secular Christmas Ads?

I’m one of those people who thinks he doesn’t really enjoy all the secular, cheesy, mass-produced holiday frivolity. I’m a serious person, after all,...

This Fragile Frame, the Pilgrim’s Home

The image of the pilgrim anchors the biblical vision for the life of the creature who names the biblical God as Lord. Robert Crouse,...

Waiting for the Beloved: Advent in the Key of Love

News junkie that I am, I confess to indulging in a certain frequency of doomscrolling. I move from one story to another, compiling a...

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