Faith • Liturgical Reflections
Windows into Waiting
Contributors from all over America reflect on the theme of longing and silence in their experiences of the Advent season.
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Faith • Liturgical Reflections
Advent Meditations: O Holy Night
If there were ever a season for the believer to recognize his or her worth and focus on the dignity of his or her fellow human being, it is the Advent season! Advent is a season of waiting, preparation and expectation for the incarnation of the Savior, Jesus Christ. The word is literally defined as...
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Faith • Biblical Reflections
A Poet’s response to a Prophet
A Reflection on Jeremiah 29… At first, when I read this passage, I thought I would attempt to write a thorough essay explaining how I, as an African American women, a product of a divorced parent, in one of the largest urban centers in the United States, feel both daily and keenly as if I...
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Faith • Theological Reflections
Shadow and Light
Shadow and light. Watching the mysterious interplay between the sky and the grass, the trees and the flowers, I found myself thinking about the way shadow and light makes its way through life for every one of us. We live amidst both glories and ruins, all day long having to make sense of the very...
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Culture • Popular Culture
Not a Typical Love Affair
“Do you read Camus?” I love film, but it is hard to find films that I want to watch. Even with almost boundless choices, Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Prime and more— including the local theaters —I can look and look, and still not find what I’m looking for. I want the story to be about things...
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Faith • Theological Reflections
The Ordering of Our Loves
Ordo Caritatis. Some words and ideas are worth holding onto, especially ones that take us to deeper places of the heart, that ask us harder questions of the heart— and even more, ones that offer the hope that all is not lost, and that our fragmented selves can be reordered, that we can be made...
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