Unseen
God dignified our sufferings when he chose to join us in them—unseen. Kristen SosebeeKristen Sosebee is wife to one fine…
Advent
Candles Are for Darkness
Kirstie Joy Schierkolk reminds us to carry the Light of the World into the darkness this Advent.
5 Questions: How Do We Build Community?
In this season of Advent, I have been contemplating the role of community in building up gratitude in my own life, and I want to hear your stories.
Advent for the Weary
Into our exhaustion breaks the season of Advent, when we look to the Light of the World for consolation. Stephen WilliamsStephen…
What Lavish Love is This?
God’s Lavish Love. . .Even for Those You Don’t Like Heather Walker PetersonAlong with being a mother to two young…
Adventus
An Advent Reflection Jody ByrkettJody Byrkett is the editor of the Pray channel. She lives in picturesque Colorado where she…
Advent in Mara’s House
Advent isn’t a season in which we force ourselves to be sad, it’s the season in which we recognise how…
Advent and Election Day
The Kingdom, the real one, has come. It is coming, unstoppably, inexorably, day by day in and through all of…
Advent, New Year’s, and the Long Defeat
Stephen Williams: The older we get, the more we are forced to recognize that almost none of the years we…
The Alarming Summons of Advent
Ready or not, joy breaks in.
Little Mother Most Blessed
Poems for Advent: Week 1
God With Us: Joy, Grief, and Hope
God with us. Joy ClarksonJoy Clarkson is a featured columnist and the Director of Marketing at Humane Pursuits. She is…
Advent: Homeward
“Nobody tells you when you get born here How much you’ll come to love it And how you’ll never belong…
Art for Advent
This quote: “I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter…
Children Dying and Earnest Joy
An Advent Meditation Heather Walker PetersonAlong with being a mother to two young and remarkably different daughters, Heather Walker Peterson…
A Christmas Wreath from George Herbert
This Christmas season, I’m pursuing the same sense of simplicity that George Herbert found.
Play Along
How medieval Christmas plays can illuminate what’s missing in your holiday. Michelle HindmanMichelle Hindman is a literature teacher at a…
All I Want for Christmas is Light
A seminarian’s Advent reflections. Barton GingerichBarton Gingerich is a Master of Divinity student at Reformed Episcopal Seminary and a fellow…
The Wisdom of the Ages for Advent
The poetry of past and present provides a structure to enrich the season of preparation.
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like…Uh-Oh.
Once upon a time, not so very long ago, in a land not so very far away, a young woman…