Waiting for the Beloved: Advent in the Key of Love By Joseph Mangina News junkie that I am, I confess to indulging in a certain frequency of doomscrolling. I move from one story to another, compiling a catalogue of the many reasons there are to be depressed:... Read More...
It’s All About Me By Cynthia Caruso It was sometime in August when, listening to a daily Ignatian meditation, I came to see that the parables may not actually be about us and them, but about me. The text for that day was t... Read More...
Who is ‘Left Behind’? An Advent Meditation By Wesley Hill One of the Gospel readings appointed for the Advent season used to send chills up my spine when I heard it as a child. “Then two will be in the field,” Jesus says, conjuring the image of two virtually indistinguishable fellow workers engaged ... Read More...
The Fulness of Time: Lancelot Andrewes on Advent and the Words of Scripture By Stewart Clem A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter. These are the best-known w... Read More...
The Farm in Advent By Chip Prehn It is winter in the Shenandoah Valley. Since we are 1,000 feet higher than the eastern side of the Blue Ridge, it is colder here sooner than there. In the winter, all that’s left of the land is... Read More...
Advent: Gearing Up For All Twelve Days A former Roman Catholic student preparing to become an Episcopal priest recently asked me why we retain the Twelve Days of Christmas as Anglicans, but Roman Catholics do not. Both Rome and the Episcopal Church have undergone major liturgical reworking because ... Read More...
Ripeness By Joseph Mangina I suspect that among the reasons Advent is so beloved is that it gives us permission to suspend our toxic religious positivity and speak with truth and clarity about the darkness around us.... Read More...
John Milton’s “On Time” By John Mason Lock As a culture we are a low point for the reading and enjoyment of poetry. Most people say they don't like poetry, and poetry has been relegated to the specialist as an oddity that requires ... Read More...
