Advent

N. Ammon Smith seeks to learn from Mary’s response to unprecedented change.

Elvir Ciceklic lifts high the praises of our children.

Cabe Matthews suggests that the Christmas story is not about placid babies in the hay but about slaying a dragon.

Samuel Andri constructively reimagines Christian friendship with the help of Saint Mary, the Blessed Mother of God.

Andrew Arndt describes how Fleming Rutledge’s Advent takes us back to the soul of this critical and peculiar season.

In this poem, Sarah Neff imagines Mary consoling Eve.

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

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

C. Wess Daniels reflects on family photographs and Advent.