Read our celebration of the Advent season in partnership with Duke Crux from December 2021.
The Nativity Scene
Every year, my neighbors set up a light-up nativity scene display during Advent…
The Challenging Gift of the Sabbath
All eyes are on me as I reach under the tree for the last present of Christmas morning…
The Surprise of the Savior
Virgins don’t tend to give birth. That statement is as uncontroversial as any. Yet every Christmas…
Between Two Advents
The past two years have been filled with absence. Ever since the pandemic first started wreaking havoc around the world…
Engage the Dark, Encounter the Light
If you find yourself in a church sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas, you will likely notice a few changes…
Prioritizing Rest
What do you do when you lay down for a thirty minute nap and wake up three hours later? …
Already and Not Yet: Waiting in Celebration
The “Christmas Season” practically begins before the trees have had a chance…
Hail! Full of Grace: A Devotional
Hail Mary, full of grace! Clothed with the sun, the moon your footstool…
The Goodness of Longing
It was a dolorous day in the middle of the pandemic, and I was lying on the floor with an ache in my heart…
What is Advent?
Throughout the year, Christians follow together the whole course of Jesus’ life from birth to ascension. We do so because …