I know it's old hat to say “keep Christ in Christmas,” yada yada, but I find that this time of year I need a daily reminder that the month of December is about more than just decking the halls. Here ...

(RNS) But the language of 'F*** This S***: An Advent Devotional' isn’t all that different from the harsh words of the prophets, according to the Lutheran pastors behind it. (RNS) For many Christians ...

Susan Diehl, director of Christian education at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Orlando, is responsible for preparing devotions for Advent, which begins Sunday. Listening to Diehl, 32, enthusiastically ...

Speedup is everywhere in our culture and our lives. This Advent, consider doing a briefer Advent devotional. I have prepared one below. Make believe it’s a calendar with just five doors, rather than ...

Churches start in many unique ways, often in small spaces and cramped quarters. For Silvia Santana in West Flanders, Belgium, it was around a coffee table. Christian Community is home to a ...

Carol Howard Merritt offers a one-page reflection for each of the days of Advent in a slim booklet that’s ideal for group use by members of congregations. The devotions, which cover Luke 1:35 to Luke ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Prepare Him Room is a Radical Radiance Interactive Advent Devotional and is a resource that will accompany four conversations on Rebecca George’s podcast in the month of ...

Advent doesn’t invite us to ascend to some divine heavenly realm, John Pavlovitz writes in Low. It invites us to bring heaven down to earth, to see in the birth of Jesus “divinity coming low to ...

Advent—the season of the Christian liturgical year beginning four Sundays before Christmas—is a perennial topic for religion publishers, and this year is no exception. Readers looking for a deeper ...