Faith • Liturgical Reflections We Are a Visited People Mary Woodiwiss | 5 min read Visitation connotes being with, not just knowing about, and then carrying one and one’s daily life more closely to heart after the visit. Is it too much of a stretch to say that God’s visitation also means that, in his gracious love, he wants to be with us? Continue Reading
Faith • Liturgical Reflections Until Hope and History Rhyme Todd Deatherage | 4 min read Advent teaches us how to live as we wait. Continue Reading
Faith • Liturgical Reflections Expecting the Incarnation Agnes R. Howard | 4 min read Thinking about what it is like to wait for a baby—even an ordinary one—helps us to grasp the immensity of what Advent brings. Continue Reading
Faith • Liturgical Reflections Hope for a Hopeless World Todd Mangum | 5 min read The hope that Jesus Christ offers does not dispute or deny the current circumstances of hopelessness, discouragement, and death. But that baby represented not just an announcement from God, but the entry of very God into the situation and circumstance of sin. Continue Reading
Faith • Liturgical Reflections Presence, at Advent Belinda Bauman | 5 min read Whatever the state of your Bethlehem—whether your vocation is soaring or struggling, your family or social life is hectic or harmonious, or your soul is at peace or feels piecemeal—God offers his greatest gift to you too. Continue Reading
Culture • Popular Culture Love Has Become Lost in Lust Dr. Steven Garber | 4 min read What cabbage leaf have you been living under, Tom Wolfe? When I Am Charlotte Simmons was published in 2004, the major papers reviewed it, as they always do for the... Continue Reading
