Prepare the Way
Advent is a time of removing obstacles, making straight the paths, and leveling the high and low places so the way is clear for everyone to experience what it means that God is With Us.
Advent
Prayer for Light in Darkness
In this time between the darkest day of the year and the birth of Christ our Light, we offer prayers for a world filled with the light of justice and truth.
Morning Sickness and Advent
Sanctuary is not without stresses, exactly because sanctuary is an embodied way for dreams to grow in a protected space so that a different future can be born.
Psalm 3
Psalm 3:3 reads: "But thou, O Lord, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head." Cynthia Wallace cries out in the early days of motherhood for God's protection and for rest in a time filled with beauty and terror.
The Baby Dinosaur at the Manger, Or: The Incarnation is for Everybody
A plastic green dinosaur in a manger scene is weird, but the uncontainable creator of the universe, held by his human mother, is really as weird as it gets.
Kishōtenketsu and Advent
Ocean Vuong’s method of storytelling offers a different path to approach Advent rooted in a classic form of Asian narrative known as kishōtenketsu.
Solstice
"In the bleak midwinter / something shifts..."
What May We Hope For?
As the 13th century Dominican monk Meister Eckhart provocatively asked: “What good is it for me that Christ was born a thousand years ago in Bethlehem?”
Full of Grace
"But who’s so certain as to speak of God? / Who among us has held Great Mystery?"
The Midwest Winter as Spiritual Desert
In the midst of the hardest months of winter, ones marked with grief and emptiness, how can we trust that God is with us?
