Despite their seemingly secular modern-day iteration — featuring wine, chocolate or other products — Advent calendars ...

The time is ripe; this is the moment to make straight the paths, to remind ourselves that Christ is alive and the Spirit is ...

The goal of Advent is to grow in holiness, to grow closer to the Holy family and become a holy family ourselves. Christ is ...

The desired product of powerful prophecy is repentance unto salvation for all who believe. Preparing prophets do not seek ...

“Dear friends, Advent is the season of the presence and expectation of the eternal. For this very reason, it is in a ...

Devlyn Brooks is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and serves Faith Lutheran Church in ...

Of course, statistically speaking, most of us would not be at the forefront of the moral revolution of any given age.

On this Second Sunday, we light the second candle on the Advent wreath, reflecting on the theme of peace and focusing on the “Prince of Peace” (Jesus) bringing deep, lasting harmony Shalom, beyond ...

This past week, the Christian calendar entered the season of Advent, and depending upon who you ask, you might hear an entirely different explanation of what this means. Trust me, it’s confusing even ...

The Wesleyan tradition has a wonderful emphasis on the means of grace. Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit and a means of that grace, that power, is a way that God meets us and we meet him. It’s an ...

Pope Leo XIV views excerpts of Roberto Benigni’s upcoming monologue “Peter: A Man in the Wind,” produced in collaboration ...

As the Church marks the Second Sunday of Advent, Jenny Kraska offers her reflection on the Gospel reading for the day.