The more we embody the Holy One, who negotiates and arbitrates among all peoples and across all cultures and nations, the more we offer hope to our world that is anticipating the advent of a new time.

The early believers lived this out in practical ways. Acts 2:46–47 describes people who ate together, cared for one another, ...

Community United Methodist Church warmly invites the community to a new Advent sermon series, “The Unlikely Advent,” beginning Sunday, Nov. 30, with services at 8:15 a.m. and 11 a.m.

Advent is often described as a season of hope. But what is hope, and what do we hope for? I suggested last Sunday that the categories of our hope are frequently too narrow, and too domesticated. In ...

VATICAN CITY (CNA)—Although he is the only person in the world to have the job of preaching to the Pope, Father Raniero Cantalamessa sees his work as simply delivering the message of the Gospel. “It ...

Year passes year, silently; Christ’s coming is ever nearer than it was. O that as he comes nearer earth, we may approach nearer heaven. Christ nearer earth, you and me nearer heaven. So, what a time ...

In a world where wars, turbulence and insecurity rage in numerous locales, the Advent season is a time of stillness and contemplation, of silence and the hope for new birth. "For those in the ...

Advent season is a reminder about the importance of Christ in people’s lives, and prepares them to celebrate Christ’s birth ...

Revs. Dr. Alisha Lola Jones and Calvin Taylor Skinner delve into the significance of Advent and Christmas in the African-American experience. “Notes on faith” is theGrio’s inspirational, ...