Advent
Come Monday, it’ll be all right, as we close another Advent season
By Lyn Pace — December 20, 2023
(RNS) — Jimmy Buffett’s early Catholic formation enabled him to use both head and heart in life and songwriting.
How a remnant group of United Methodists is making a new church home
By Yonat Shimron — December 18, 2023
ADVANCE, N.C. (RNS) — Here, in the middle of a bland industrial park that looks like a self-storage facility, a new church is emerging.
Leaning into the hope of Advent when the world feels so dark
By Knox Thames — December 15, 2023
(RNS) — Human rights advocates are experiencing a painful purgatory of in-betweenness.
In Advent God comforts us so we can comfort others
By Thomas Reese — December 13, 2023
(RNS) — God does not comfort us so we can simply be comfortable. God comforts us so we can comfort others.
Christmas isn’t always holly jolly – even some of its best-loved songs are bittersweet
By David W. Stowe — December 24, 2022
(The Conversation) — Songs of the season – sacred and secular music alike – sometimes acknowledge that Christmas isn’t all joy.
This Advent, churches urged to assess worship for inadvertent antisemitism
By Kathryn Post — December 14, 2022
(RNS) — ‘To say that the meaning of sacred Scriptures are over for Jews, because Jesus has come, fuels a sense that there is no longer a reason for Jews to exist,’ said one scholar.
With race in mind, Christians reconsider language of dark and light at Advent
By Emily McFarlan Miller — December 7, 2022
(RNS) — ‘The idea that darkness is inherently bad needs no reinforcement,’ said one pastor.
In Advent, we hope and wait. Climate change doesn’t lend itself to either.
By Thomas Reese — November 28, 2022
(RNS) — Advent is supposed to be a time of anticipation and hope, but the threat of global warming brings me anxiety and fear.
A child is coming to save us. Perhaps he’ll remind us to do better by the children we have.
By Phyllis Zagano — December 15, 2021
(RNS) — Has the story of the Christ child taught us anything?
New Advent album by The Porter’s Gate is balm for a pandemic-weary world
By Kathryn Post — December 10, 2021
(RNS) — 'It also feels like a particularly good year for Advent. It feels like, this has been a whole Advent year, a whole Advent two years,' said The Porter’s Gate founder.
Mary’s immaculate conception means she was only good. Why do Protestants get her so wrong?
By Jacob Lupfer — December 8, 2021
(RNS) — Protestants’ neglect of Mary crumbles under even modest scrutiny.
Advent, race and the intimacy of Incarnation
By Robert P. Jones — December 3, 2021
(RNS) — If we take the Incarnation seriously, we have a responsibility to build a theology where all of humanity is assumed in the body of Jesus.
Happy New Year, it’s Advent
By Thomas Reese — November 26, 2021
(RNS) — The feast of Jesus' birth began by co-opting a pagan holiday. Today, it has been co-opted by pagan capitalism.
What we profess on Sunday ought to apply to Black Friday
By Rosa Lee Harden — November 23, 2021
(RNS) — Let's reflect on not just why we give gifts but how we purchase them.
Think we’re living through the Apocalypse? So did first-century Christians
By Thomas Reese — November 15, 2021
(RNS) — If the apocalyptic writers were alive today, they would no doubt draw from the imagery of nuclear war, global warming, melting ice caps, falling asteroids and pandemics.
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