Third Sunday of Advent

Navigating agency and surrender with my namesake, the mother of God

If anyone is expecting a lullaby, they better think again.

Evolving Faith’s Sarah Bessey and Jeff Chu believe that a person’s deconstruction can’t just be for them.

They put us in touch with essential things that we know to be dear or wrong.

Abortion is about real lives enmeshed in the realities of home and work and wages and debt.

My Grandma Violet was the black sheep of our family. I think of her when I pray.

I think Jesus learned his prophetic ministry from his mother.

John the Baptist has a brand.

The biblical foundation for a holy practice

I've long identified with Mary's fire. Now I want to learn from Elizabeth.

Unabated cultural frivolity rules our churches, too.

The Magnificat rejoices in a God who acts within human history.

Like John the Baptist, progressive Christians tend to define ourselves in the negative.

"I love you," says God. "We love you, too," our prayers reply.

What a relief it might be to middle-class America to be sent away empty.