Advent’s surprise for us
What might happen if we greeted the season with wonder and amazement?
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What might happen if we greeted the season with wonder and amazement?
We can reframe the Advent season in order to reclaim it, writes an author and academic.
Mary is understandably a focus of most Advent stories, but there are also lessons to learn from Joseph, writes a director of programs and grants at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
The shepherds’ story within the greater nativity offers wisdom for those mourning a loss during Christmas, a pastor writes.
As we head into a holiday season in this post-lockdown but not-yet-post-pandemic world, we must build new life — together, writes the senior associate editor of Faith & Leadership.
A writer stretched thin by illness finds comfort in the natural world during a season of darkness.
Rather than viewing this season as awaiting a return to the past, we can embrace it as an invitation to transformation and action, writes the director of the Thriving Congregations Coordination Program at Duke Divinity.
As we anticipate Christ’s birth, let’s strip away false exteriors to embrace what really matters.
In Advent, we are reminded that Jesus came to us, and stays with us, in times of trial.
From her perspective in the midst of the pandemic and with a new year dawning, a New York pastor advocates for leaders to look again for possibilities.
Christ’s unifying message was clear from the beginning -- that he is Lord and Savior of all, says an expert on religion and foreign policy.