The lack of church decor also teaches about the penitential nature of the season. In the weeks leading up to Christmas, the ...

"O Lord, How Shall I Meet You" is a perfect Lutheran hymn for the weeks before Christmas, but shoppers will never hear it ...

An important part of the observance of Advent during this liturgical season is the playing and singing of Advent music. It's similar to — but also different than — the more well-known genre of ...

King Charles remembered the plight of Christians facing persecution around the world, as he attended an atmospheric, ...

This week, Christians begin a new liturgical year and enter into the rich and ancient four-week season of Advent. For most American Christians, Advent passes virtually unnoticed, as the celebration of ...

Last night I attended an Advent service of song and readings at my parish church accompanied by two close friends, one a secular agnostic and the other a nonpracticing Mormon. The choirs offered ...

Whenever I attend Catholic mass during Advent, as I did last weekend, I’m always struck by how it is simply assumed—how it’s a liturgical . . . no, an ontological given—that Christmas is nowhere yet ...

Before Advent is a word, it is a sigh. A voice crying. A mood. And never more deeply felt than in these troubled months. Advent marks both the exhaustion and the hope of God’s people, when the meaning ...

The album American IV released in 2002 was the last album put out by Johnny Cash during his lifetime. We also heard one of the best-known works of J.S.Bach, 'Zion hears the Watchmen calling' (Zion ...