<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/my-advent-calendar"></a></p> <p>The fourth window of my Advent calendar opened to reveal a deer in the snow, a nostalgic vision of w ...

A few years ago, as I and the rest of the audience waited patiently for a passion play to begin, a homeless man burst into the church and began running up the aisle, screaming. A ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/my-advent-calendar"></a></p> I love Advent. I love lighting the candles on the Advent wreath, si ...

<p>"The cheese is gone, someone came in and stole the cheese."</p> "The cheese is gone, someone came in and stole the cheese." I looked at Sh ...

<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W5t_VeoxZA"></a>As per usual, on Friday, we had all sorts of Buy Nothing Day festivities (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ...

Julie Polter Being vessels of that perfect love that casts out fear. With many more Americans struggling to pa ...

Rose Marie Berger The great wheel of the Christian liturgical year is turning once again. The great wheel of t ...

Michaela Bruzzese Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for December. A few years ago, as I and the res ...

<p><a href="http://blog.sojo.net/tag/economy-special-focus/"></a></p> Since the early 1990s, a guerrilla campaign has been waged by ...

<P>During Advent, as I kindle the wreath candles that mark the journey to the Bethlehem stable, I return to particular writers that I love and certain music that I can't seem to get through the sea ...

<p><P>A few years ago I remember a pastor friend telling me they tried something a little different for their Christmas services. Instead of the usual holiday d&eacute;cor and clutter of the sanc ...

<p><P>As a child I found no joy in an Advent calendar; all those little flaps and doors and bite-size pieces of chocolate signified nothing more than the fact that Christmas was still a really, rea ...

Rose Marie Berger What habits do you have that generate hope? "Advent is the beginning of the end of all ...

Andrew Hoeksema Why blessed uncertainty is the language of Advent. Speaking of Maybe ...

Molly Marsh Advent is the time in our church calendar that redirects us toward our source of sustenance, the hope that God will come, and ...

Rose Marie Berger This is to all who serve on the human front, wearing any mask that will get you home. A word: While we are all dying to ...

Julie Polter I confess: I was a catalog girl who grew up to be a catalog woman. I confess: I was a catalog gir ...

Julie Polter Advent, incarnation, and the daily news. Advent stretches over the four Sundays before Christma ...