Feast days

Advice for Epiphany: ‘Keep your eyes on the baby!’

Watching a 2-year-old reminds a loving grandmother of the way Epiphany grounds us, revealing a baby — the Christ child.

By Gretchen E. Ziegenhals Spiritual director and retreat leader

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All Saints’ Day invites us to grieve well

An author and chaplain is incorporating the traditions of the annual feast day in mourning the deaths of loved ones.

By Khristi Lauren Adams Author

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At Epiphany, new ways of being

We can look to the unlikely group gathered for Christ’s nativity as a model for friendship, writes the director of the Thriving in Ministry Coordination Program at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.

By Alaina Kleinbeck Associate Executive Director, Coordination Programs

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Our saints and their stories

At All Saints’ Day, a pastor reflects on the importance of remembering those whose lives inspire us.

By Jane Lyon Pastor and nonprofit founder

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Accompanied by a communion of ordinary saints

All Saints’ Day is a reminder of the faithful departed who made room for God, a pastor writes.

By Isaac Villegas Pastor and writer

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Aleta Payne: The wise men packed up their privilege and slipped out the back

As we mark Epiphany, let’s work to share our power rather than taking the comfortable path, writes an editor with Faith & Leadership.

By Aleta Payne Senior editor, Faith & Leadership

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The tradition of child bishops teaches the meaning of the Magnificat

In Winston-Salem, North Carolina, a church enthrones a young chorister as “bishop” every December in a medieval practice that illustrates the upside-down spirit of Advent.

By Chris Karnadi Editor, Faith & Leadership

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L. Roger Owens: Follow your stars?

After years of looking for his one true vocation, a seminary professor of Christian spirituality considers an alternative picture of vocation. What if it’s not a single star we should follow but a constellation?

By L. Roger Owens Hugh Thomson Kerr Professor of Pastoral Theology, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

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Rhonda Mawhood Lee: Bless all the beasts, rats included

Despite their reputation, rats -- at least the domesticated variety -- are warm, empathetic companions who challenge the lines we draw between “lovable” and “unworthy,” says an Episcopal priest. Remember them and other unpopular pets this St. Francis Day.

By Rhonda Mawhood Lee Priest, spiritual director and writer

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Gretchen E. Ziegenhals: The gracefulness of hope

Even in a fearful, divided and dark world, the Magi gracefully and joyfully sought the Christ child by seeing hope in a tiny point of light, writes a managing director at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.