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The Fruit of Anticipation

A few weeks ago, I had the immense privilege of attending a historic football game at Lambeau Field. A friend of my parish offered to...

The Audacious Hope of Advent

Content warning: Miscarriage. The defining feature of my life right now is that I am pregnant. Almost every casual conversation starts with either a “Congratulations!”...

Watching and Waiting

"Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or...

Lingering on the Banks of the Jordan

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, as it is written in Isaiah the prophet: “Behold, I am sending...

What Do Christians Make of Secular Christmas Ads?

I’m one of those people who thinks he doesn’t really enjoy all the secular, cheesy, mass-produced holiday frivolity. I’m a serious person, after all,...

This Fragile Frame, the Pilgrim’s Home

The image of the pilgrim anchors the biblical vision for the life of the creature who names the biblical God as Lord. Robert Crouse,...

Waiting for the Beloved: Advent in the Key of Love

News junkie that I am, I confess to indulging in a certain frequency of doomscrolling. I move from one story to another, compiling a...

It’s All About Me

It was sometime in August when, listening to a daily Ignatian meditation, I came to see that the parables may not actually be about...

Who is ‘Left Behind’? An Advent Meditation

By Wesley Hill One of the Gospel readings appointed for the Advent season used to send chills up my spine when I heard it as...

The Fulness of Time: Lancelot Andrewes on Advent and the Words of Scripture

  A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the...

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