This Life: Developing bold hope during trying times
US columnist CAROL ROUND, in an article published on ASSIST News Service, writes about the “season of hope”…
Essay: Happy New Year, it’s Advent
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE reflects on the start of Advent…
Sight-Seeing: In a year of waiting and hoping, Advent reminds us that patience can be healthy
WES GRANBERG-MICHAELSON, a former general secretary of the Reformed Church in America and author of ‘Without Oars: Casting Off Into a Life of Pilgrimage’, reflects on the practice of patience and its necessity during Advent…
Christmas in year of COVID: Chicago church releases a beer for Advent — and the end of the world
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, on how one US church is marking advent in an unusual way in what has been an unusual year…
ESSAY: KEEP THE LONGING FOR CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS
TARA ISABELLA BURTON, in an article first published by Religion News Service, says Advent is as much about the darkness of our times as it is about the light which overcomes it…
CHRISTMAS: NEW RESOURCES FOR ADVENT – THE “ORIGINAL BLUE CHRISTMAS” – FOCUS ON GRIEF, JUSTICE BEFORE CELEBRATION
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports on how the idea of “Blue Christmas” goes back to the start of the season of advent…
ESSAY: AS THE WORLD APPEARS TO TURN UPSIDE DOWN (AGAIN), ADVENT IS HERE
US Catholic commentator, THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, reflects on the state of the world this Advent – and the hope that Jesus Christ brings despite what we see around us…