Have you ever felt sad around Christmastime? Have you ever felt guilty for feeling sad around Christmastime? Take it from someone who has dealt with unseasonable melancholy for the better part of the ...

Earlier this summer I sat down to plan out my preaching series for the next school year. It’s one of my favorite things to do. My process is simple. I take out a legal pad (I’m a pen-and-paper kind of ...

“I really appreciate it when the truth is spoken very plainly,” says Tsh Oxenreider. Homilies that cut to the chase. That tell us Advent is about preparation—not just of our homes, but of our hearts.

As the church comes around the liturgical calendar once again to Advent, we might wonder if we aren’t just going in circles. Jesus is coming again, even as the early church longed for his imminent ...

On 17 December 1933, the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer delivered a powerful sermon in London. Advent always seemed to draw out the best in him, which should not be surprising given his love of ...

Today we start the new Church Year with the beginning of a new season of Advent. Regular worshippers here will have noticed that there is no Altar at the Crossing, immediately in front of the ...

Today’ two readings focus on the end of the world. Revelations depict it as a great harvest of wheat and grapes and in Luke, Jesus predicts the destruction of the temple and the coming of universal ...