Advent is a season of waiting. The first Sunday is the Sunday of Hope. Hope is at the same time magical and hard work, tenuous and strong, nameless and nameable, intangible and something we feel deeply, and beautiful and ugly.

Hope for the Heartbroken by Sean Parker Dennison

Christmas Is Subversive by Kendyl R Gibbons

“You’ll Never Walk Alone and Jerzy Dudek” – The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green