Can You Flunk Advent? I Didn’t Mean To Find Out
On the far side of the room from where I sit most work days, I can see our Advent wall […]
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Advent
Thoughts on a Rose Sunday
Every single Advent, at just about the third week, time seems to speed up, and Christmas suddenly feels minutes away.
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Hopes and Fears of All the Years
I’ve been thinking a lot about the nature of longing. This has made for awkward holiday gatherings with typical mid-forties
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Jesus’ Invitation to Andrew and to Us This Advent
Searching the Gospel for stories of Andrew, we find him in sentences such as this one from Matthew 10: “Simon,
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Welcoming Advent into Our Homes
Part of my family is already observing Advent. And it’s not the clergy parents who are up to their eyeballs
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We’re Almost Close to Meeting Jesus
“We’re almost close to meeting Jesus.” These were the words my 5-year-old grandson, James, joyfully yelled on December 16th as
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The Advent and Christmas Jumble
My own kids, our Sunday school kids, and the families in our church community all bring the same question this time of year. How
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Advent: The Ancient Practice of Patience
As a child, my family had one Advent calendar we used for years. It featured a nativity with twenty-four paper
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Beautiful Blue Christmas
I have long loved Darryl Worley’s song ‘Awful Beautiful Life’ that’s linked above. It came out around the time I graduated from college and it reminds me that life is crazy, tragic, and magic.
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The Time it Takes: Trusting with Saint Thomas
It takes the time it takes, I heard the speaker say.
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