Faith • Liturgical Reflections Celebrate With a Less Automatic Reply Kate Harrison Brennan | 4 min read As Advent draws to its high point of expectation in this year, we must also come to terms with the restless anxiety that we are not yet ready to down tools and celebrate. Continue Reading
Faith • Liturgical Reflections The Advent of Surprise Stephan Bauman | 3 min read The first Advent prepared a weary world for an outrageous surprise. 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 Pentecost and Christian Vocation in the Twenty-First Century Amos Yong | 4 min read The multiplicity of voices is not in and of itself a problem; in fact, such plurivocity may well be a work of the Spirit of God in the present time. Continue Reading
Culture • Vocation • Christianity & Culture Honor, Shame, and Vocation Laura Merzig Fabrycky | 3 min read “There are basically three kinds of cultures in the world: guilt-based, fear-based, or shame-based. Guilt-based and fear-based cultures have been much more open to the good news of Jesus than shame-based cultures. It is critical that we understand the dynamics of honor and shame to communicate effectively the good news of Jesus within this cultural... Continue Reading
Vocation • On Daily Work Real Food is Real Work Laura Merzig Fabrycky | 14 min read TWI: To be fully transparent, we should acknowledge that this is our second recorded interview with you, Jessica, after a computer glitch wiped out our last one. Thank you for this generous donation of your time–again! We’ll look at our last conversation as a kind of a rough draft. I suppose it’s a lot like... Continue Reading
