This Advent season, a leading expert on Christian persecution around the world and religious freedom issues weighed in on how to stay rooted in faith and key values — and how to remain focused on the ...

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 ...

For Christians, the season of Advent, the four Sundays leading up to Christmas, is the season of hope and anticipation. It is a glorious time, one seemingly at odds with the calendar itself because it ...

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 ...

All is not well with the world and the whole creation groans in agony. Disease, immorality, murder, despair, pollution, prejudice, hatred, division, laziness, poverty, tyranny, confusion, greed, ...

(RNS) — The Advent season reminds Christians of the time between a promise and its realization. Coming from the Latin term “adventus,” for arrival, Advent traditionally refers to the four weeks ...

Ask almost anyone, anywhere, and they’ll tell you that 2025 has been a hard year. We’ve witnessed global wars, school shootings and an alarming rise in political violence. We’ve endured a ...

Another liturgical year is ending this week. On Sunday, we will celebrate the First Sunday of Advent and, with it, a new church year. This monthlong liturgical season tends to sneak up on many of us.