When he was a college campus chaplain in the Boston area, the Rev. Cameron Partridge saw how stressed his students were in the weeks leading up to Christmas break. "You know, you've got the end of the ...

A new liturgical year is upon us. As we begin Advent, we begin Cycle C of the Lectionary readings, in which Luke is regularly proclaimed on Sundays. The season of Advent takes its name from the Latin ...

Christian leaders from Brazil, Colombia, France, and the Philippines weigh in on mistaken beliefs about the season. For liturgy-loving Christians, Advent is a season of anticipation, marked by a ...

To call my maternal grandparents thrifty would be a gross understatement. Grandma washed and reused the bags in which sliced bread was sold. Grandpa was unashamed to pick through folks’ trash in an ...

WE have entered the Advent season. It is a very brief season in the liturgical calendar — four Sundays and hardly four weeks, until it gives way to the Christmas Season. The distinctness of the Advent ...

Build.Plant.Grow provides catechetical instruction for children based on the Sunday readings of the Christian Church during the period beginning with Advent up to and including the closure of the ...

Peace – noun: A state of tranquility or quiet. Freedom from disquieting or oppressive thought and emotions. For those of the Christian faith, the season of Advent and the waiting and anticipating for ...

I did not grow up recognizing Advent as a thing. I knew it mostly as an adjective for certain Christmasy items I saw only in December—the Advent wreath up front at my evangelical nondenominational ...

It may sound oxymoronic to claim that a lectionary could be original, but this one truly shatters the mold. It is arranged in the manner of most Christian lectionaries (though it begins with Epiphany ...