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Christmas Isn’t Canceled

December 31, 2020 By Matthew Chen 1 Comment

Christmas isn’t canceled. The New Year is coming, fresh and frosty.

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Filed Under: Health Tagged With: Advent, Christmas, coronavirus, hope

Tradition is Life

December 28, 2020 By Sarah Carr Leave a Comment

“Oh! There are gifts on the mantel!” She says as she drops her backpack and coat on the way in from school.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Advent, coronavirus, Family, rest, tradition

The Dark Ancient Truth of O Come, O Come, Emmanuel

December 22, 2020 By Cara Meredith 11 Comments

Usually, by the time December rolls around, I am ready for the Advent season to come around as well.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Advent, coronavirus, hymns

Parenting Small

December 19, 2020 By Christian Simmers Leave a Comment

My breath quickens when I hear “do less” each Advent. As my heart starts to race, I think, “There’s no way that’s what they really mean!”

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Advent, coronavirus, parenting

Reminders offered by our creche collection

December 14, 2020 By Bingham Powell 1 Comment

I do not know when I moved from having a few creches to having a collection, but it was somewhere between having two and then forty

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Advent, crèche, nativity

How an Epidemic Changed Saint Nicholas

December 6, 2020 By Meaghan Brower 4 Comments

If I were writing this last year I don’t even think I would have paid any attention to this part of Nicholas’ story. I’m not sure the word would have registered in my brain. But this year? Hearing of a young boy losing both his parents to an uncontrolled illness was hard to ignore.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: Advent, Christmas, Feast Days, generosity, kindness, St. Nicholas, St. Nicholas Center

Skipping Advent

December 4, 2020 By Samantha Vincent-Alexander 13 Comments

This is the time of year when many Episcopal clergy start reminding anyone who will listen how important it is to observe Advent. It normally […]

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Advent, Christmas, coronavirus, Music

Including Children and Youth in AdventWord

November 28, 2020 By Emily Gowdy Canady Leave a Comment

So often children and young people are perceived as only receivers of Christian Formation. In reality they have so much to offer us.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Advent, adventword, children, Lifelong Learning, social media, Virginia Theological Seminary, youth

Journeying to Bethlehem This Advent

November 24, 2020 By Natalie Keller 1 Comment

Last year, I was offered an opportunity to travel to Bethlehem, Palestine to work with adults and youth to create a circus outreach program with a long time friend

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Advent, Palestine, spiritual practice, youth ministry

Advent Care Package for Youth: What’s in the box?

November 13, 2020 By Miriam McKenney Leave a Comment

A post from the Forma Facebook page a few days ago reminded me: what am I doing for Advent with my youth group? Of course, I should have been thinking about this weeks ago. But here I am, scrolling through the list of ideas and putting together my Advent care package. But it’s not too late, especially in God’s time.  

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Spiritual Practices, Way of Love Tagged With: Advent, birth, coloring, craft, Jesus, nativity

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