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To round out our reflections for this Advent season, your Alumni Association staff pondered: How can we carry the spirit of this season—its hope, peace, joy, and love—into the year ahead? Take a ...
This Advent season will be different from all the others we've experienced. Those familiar Advent themes of longing for God and waiting in hope take on a special meaning for us in the midst of the ...
This Advent season will be different from all the others we've experienced. Those familiar Advent themes of longing for God and waiting in hope take on a special meaning for us in the midst of the ...
Here we are, Christmas Day. How wondrous. Nothing compares! We have been waiting and preparing for the birth of the Christ Child, and His arrival changes us and changes our world, if we let it. During ...
The sequence of lighting the candles on an Advent wreath is to light the first purple candle on the first Sunday of Advent, which is Dec. 1 this year. Then move clockwise and light a second purple ...
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 ...
A question we always find ourselves asking this time of year is “Are you ready for Christmas?” For some the question teases the need to string lights, buy enough eggnog from the grocer, and to be sure ...