There Will Be Pain in Childbearing
Sharon Hodde Miller reflects on the witness of pregnancy in seasons of waiting.
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.
Jason Byassee describes Mary as a sign that God is scandalously enfleshed.
This essay argues against sentimentalized images of the nativity for a more realistic rendering of the birth of Jesus.
In this Advent reflection, Tom Ryan wonders whether we really want what Advent prepares us for.
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.
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.