The readings from the Second Sunday of Advent present us with two of the major Advent characters: the prophet Isaiah, the source of several messianic prophecies, and John the Baptist, the one God ...

Fresco of the Proclamation of the Immaculate Conception by Pope Pius IX during the First Vatican Council. (Credit: [CC0], from Wikimedia Commons.) Listen This weekend, the Church gives us a double ...

Regardless of which Evangelist is the particular focus in the three-year Sunday cycle of readings, the Gospels of the Second and Third Sundays of Advent always focus on the person and work of St. John ...

This Sunday’s readings take us from Old Testament prophecies of the future Messiah to the union of Jew and Gentile in God’s kingdom. They also bring us to the herald of Jesus’ earthly ministry and the ...

"The kingdom of heaven is at hand!" "In that great gettin' up morning, fare thee well, fare thee well." John the Baptist proclaimed the first of these statements, the second is from a traditional ...

Today is the second Sunday of Advent. What's the line that sticks with you? Is it "Prepare ye the way of the Lord!" or "Every valley shall be exalted"? That might be the test of whether you are more a ...

Join us for worship in the University Chapel with Guest Preacher Heath W. Carter, Associate Professor of American Christianity, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ. Music by the Princeton ...

Our readings today provide the outlines of Jesus’ rescue mission. In the apocalyptic mindset of Jesus’ day, God was all-powerful but not all-controlling. The danger always existed that forces of chaos ...

I am lucky enough to serve a church, in Chicago, where people are excited about coming to worship. I teach new member classes, in which many people cite worship as the thing that has really drawn them ...

Advent reminds us that our faith is contagious. We have everything we need inside our hearts to receive and share God’s love and light. We just have to honor the promise of our faith to do so. But ...