
Unsettling Advent 2025, Day 18
The season of Advent urges us to slow down; to dwell in the fullness of God’s good news. God offers us life-affirming joy even as calamity follows crisis like an ever-unspooling tragedy.

The season of Advent urges us to slow down; to dwell in the fullness of God’s good news. God offers us life-affirming joy even as calamity follows crisis like an ever-unspooling tragedy.

Technologies like AI privilege “growth” and “effectiveness” over imagination and inefficiency. God operates differently.

I realized something sobering we can no longer say, It s not me We can no longer say, It s just the Jews, or It s just the Christians It is us

Mary deserves neither exaggerated veneration nor casual neglect

The phenomenon is not a problem that can be explained using a simple Right-Left taxonomy

It seems if we are to have an honest conversation about persecution against Christians, we should first and foremost consider the migrant who is our neighbor, who is made in God’s image, and who needs our collective voice and support right now.

Turn them off Turn them all off It is affecting you It is infecting you

Some issues in Washington are like that proverbial leaking roof everyone knows it needs fixing, and every storm reminds us of the problem

God orchestrates history, and among the things He uses is the obedience of His people

As Christmas nears, may we continue to not run away from seeing the injustices in our communities. But hold that in tension with our calling as people of faith, with the joy that we should all be feeling as we anticipate Jesus’s birth.