Speedup is everywhere in our culture and our lives. This Advent, consider doing a briefer Advent devotional. I have prepared one below. Make believe it’s a calendar with just five doors, rather than ...

Catholic Bishop Robert J. Baker once had a Christmas tree nearly dumped on his head. "Someone threw the tree off a balcony the day after Christmas," Baker said. That was years ago in Charleston, S.C., ...

Advent doesn’t invite us to ascend to some divine heavenly realm, John Pavlovitz writes in Low. It invites us to bring heaven down to earth, to see in the birth of Jesus “divinity coming low to ...

The First Sunday of Advent is ecclesiastical New Year’s Day. It is a fitting occasion to make resolutions to grow in the spiritual life, as each time we have the privilege to retrace Christ’s life in ...

“It is fitting, my brethren, that we should celebrate this season of Advent with all possible devotion, rejoicing in so great a consolation, marveling at so great a condescension, inflamed with love ...

Daily devotional readings from Christianity Today. “I bring you good news …” (Luke 2:10). With these words, the angel began a stunning gospel proclamation: The Savior, the promised Messiah, the Lord, ...

Churches start in many unique ways, often in small spaces and cramped quarters. For Silvia Santana in West Flanders, Belgium, it was around a coffee table. Christian Community is home to a ...

Actually, it’s been here for a while if we’re being honest. Unlike previous generations who waited until after Thanksgiving to trim the tree, hang stockings, put up lights, and transform their homes ...

One day in 2018, a homeless man stopped in at the Moravian Center of Lancaster, next to the bus terminal in the city, asking for a bus ticket so that he could visit his wife in the hospital. He left ...

This year is the 25th anniversary of Facets of Faith. I am occasionally rerunning columns from its history. This one, from Nov. 24, 2018, is about Advent, which begins Dec. 3. Now that Thanksgiving is ...