Waiting, For Now
By Alfred Delp Advent is the time of promise; it is not yet the time of fulfillment. We are still in the midst of everything and in the logical inexorability and relentlessness of destiny....
Category: Advent
A Letter to Boy, Age Seven
By Elrena Evans Merry Christmas! I picked your card off the Christmas tree in my church because I have three boys of my own—two older than you and one younger—and I thought they might...
On Break-Ins and Broken Hearts: An Advent Reflection
By Kristyn Komarnicki We love movies about clever heists, where high-tech and highly organized thieves outwit security systems and break into "uncrackable" safes. We thrill to scenes of Cary Grant scaling rooftops in Hitchcock's...
God's Strange Art
By Makoto Fujimura A teenage girl claims an angel told her she'd have a virgin birth. Her fiancé is hesitant to believe her. She gives birth in a stable. The people who come to visit...
Emmanuel in Loss
By Katelyn Durst This year began with tears dark nights where there was no teapot whistling on the stove to keep us warm. Many of us had hopes and dreams but they...
A Surprise at the School Concert
By Allison Duncan Cute middle school kids filed onto the risers for the charter school holiday concert. Boys with hair slicked back, girls with Mom's bright pink lipstick a bit clumsily applied. Some surveyed...
What If Our Border Walls Keep Out Mary and Baby Jesus?
By Maryada Vallet She walks the dusty trails until her ankles swell and her back pulsates in pain. Her womb, distended in the eighth month of pregnancy, slows her down, yet also gives her...
When All You Can Do Is Laugh
By Drew Jackson After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, "Do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great." But Abram...
Join Baby Jesus on the Margins
By J. Mark Bowers I sat in an Advent Bible study, listening for the rest of the song. The passage was the Magnificat in Luke 1. We opened the Scriptures and read Mary's familiar...
Light Shines in Darkness
By Churches for Middle East Peace In him was life, and that life was the light of the people. The light shines in darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ~ John 1:4-5...
