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I have always loved Advent. Even as a child, I was filled with the aching wonder of the season when my dad would lead us in singing O Come, O Come Emmanuel to the glow of the Advent wreath in the dark ...

On this Sunday let us focus on Mary, the mother of Jesus, who is almost invisible. She appears during Advent and Christmas, by Epiphany she begins to disappear. Much of being a Protestant historically ...

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 ...