Advent

In this Advent sermon, Dan Rhodes engages the deeply disturbing and yet hopeful interruption of the angel Gabriel to Mary, when he announces that she will bear the Christ-child.

For author Greg Moore, the season of Advent is rooted in a divine memory.

Advent is a season of waiting, of being drawn into the spiritual discipline of anticipation. Our spiritual director is Mary, the mother of Jesus, the one in whom we see revealed the patience of God. Mary waits for the Messiah, and in doing so she invites us into a way of life that welcomes the gospel through a posture of waiting.

Reflection on Christmas for the 2010 Christian.

In this interview, Josh Butler describes his work with the Advent Conspiracy, an organization that challenges popular consumerist responses to Christmas and seeks to recapture that sense that there is something prophetic and countercultural about Christmas, that a different kingdom is being celebrated when we celebrate the birth of Jesus.

(Ed. Note: Originally published at The Matthew’s House Project.)     Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime. – Joseph Cornell Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which […]