“I live in Minnesota, where, at this time of year during the Christmas season, we often have snow, blizzards, and ice. We have what my colleague Karoline Lewis calls the “unnecessary freezing of water.” So...

MaryAnn McKibben Dana is a writer, speaker, pastor, and the author of Sabbath in the Suburbs: A Family’s Experiment with Holy Time. An avid student and champion of improvisational theater, she prides herself on her...

Michael Curry is the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (USA) and one of the best preachers in America. In this sermon for the Third Sunday of Advent he touches on each of the lectionary...

“It’s a harsh voice shouting in the wilderness…and it doesn’t fit so well with the gentleness promised by the Lord,” begins Andrew Connors, Pastor of Brown Memorial Park Avenue Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, Maryland. In...

Lauren F. Winner is an Episcopal priest and Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Duke University. Dr. Winner writes and lectures widely on Christian practice, the history of Christianity in America, and Jewish-Christian relations. Her...