Christmas without Advent? A Bride who Won’t Stop Wearing her Dress
Trying to celebrate Christmas every day of Advent is like a bride who’s so excited about her wedding that she wears her dress every day for weeks before the ceremony.
Trying to celebrate Christmas every day of Advent is like a bride who’s so excited about her wedding that she wears her dress every day for weeks before the ceremony.
Christian Nationalism means one group’s notion of Christianity holds power regardless of what the majority want. It can even mean a dictatorship.
Visiting a concentration camp means feeling the suffering that calls out from the ground. It means remembering that so many Christians chose to wait passively and that we must make different choices.
Mary Magdalene was not a fallen temptress. She witnessed the resurrection, was the apostle to the apostles, and likely continued in leadership in the early church.
Making purple dye required an outrageous number of snails.
Norbert of Xanten was ordained for social necessity, but found his life changed along the way.
Mary Ellen Pleasant was wise and kind, supported her community, and got justice every time she could for everyone she could.
Eunice Hunton Carter was savvy and brave. She had a huge impact on the course of justice in her day!
Throughout scripture and in the history of the church, “Word” has meant a lot of different things. Here are a few of them:
Harriet Tubman’s faith in her own words: