Advent’s surprise for us
What might happen if we greeted the season with wonder and amazement?
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Allowing Advent to find us honestly
We can reframe the Advent season in order to reclaim it, writes an author and academic.
Link to author Shannon W. Dycus
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Shannon W. Dycus
Pastor and educator
What was Joseph to do?
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.
Link to author Mycal X. Brickhouse
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Mycal X. Brickhouse
Director of programs and grants, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Our grief doesn’t stop during Advent
The shepherds’ story within the greater nativity offers wisdom for those mourning a loss during Christmas, a pastor writes.
Link to author Kalina Carlson
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Kalina Carlson
Associate pastor and entrepreneur
Creating our future is a group effort
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.
Link to author Aleta Payne
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Aleta Payne
Senior editor, Faith & Leadership
Reflecting on the incarnation amid chronic pain
A writer stretched thin by illness finds comfort in the natural world during a season of darkness.
Link to author Allison Backous Troy
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Allison Backous Troy
Writer and educator
Our bold "yes" this Advent
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.
Link to author Kelly Ryan
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Kelly Ryan
Communications Specialist, The Evaluation and Communications Project at the Center for Congregations
Showing up as our true selves this Advent
As we anticipate Christ’s birth, let’s strip away false exteriors to embrace what really matters.
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J. Dana Trent
Author
Glimmers of Advent hope within exhaustion
In Advent, we are reminded that Jesus came to us, and stays with us, in times of trial.
Link to author Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes
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Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes
Founding co-lead pastor, The Double Love Experience Church
Gabby Cudjoe Wilkes: What is possible? Out of a season of hardship and into a season of hope
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.
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Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes
Founding co-lead pastor, The Double Love Experience Church
Chris Seiple: Let Advent remind us -- Christ came to save all
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.
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Chris Seiple
President emeritus, Institute for Global Engagement
