Issue 29.5: Advent

In this poem, Sarah Neff imagines Mary consoling Eve.

Sharon Hodde Miller reflects on the witness of pregnancy in seasons of waiting.

Jo-Ann Badley writes about how even Mary, pregnant with God by the Holy Spirit, still needs a man to get the recognition she deserves from Protestants.

Chris E. W. Green offers an advent meditation on what it means for God to come into the world through our labors.

Meghan Larissa Good shows that when God has a secret, God talks to women.

C. Wess Daniels reflects on family photographs and Advent.

Jason Byassee describes Mary as a sign that God is scandalously enfleshed.

Nathan A. Smith encourages Christians to identify themselves with the waiting that is commemorated during the season of Advent.