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
Faith • Theological Reflections Beautiful, Not Perfect Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read Beautiful, but not perfect. Last weekend Meg and I spent hours walking along the Assateague National Seashore, listening to and looking at the ocean and its waves, the primordial poetry... Continue Reading
Faith • Theological Reflections The Distant Drums… On Death and Hope, Sorrow and Joy Abby Deatherage | 4 min read I’m sitting with one hundred University Singers, my choral group at UVa, in the gigantic John Paul Jones Arena, energized and jittery with excitement: we are about to sing for... Continue Reading
Faith • Liturgical Reflections Merry Michaelmas Laura Merzig Fabrycky | 4 min read Angels don't often figure into our theologies of work, but perhaps they should. Continue Reading
