This Advent, a new visitor has come to stay: a baby girl, to be born in April.

Expecting at Christmas
By Bonnie Nichols Scott

As I read in Luke that the baby "leaped in the womb" of Elizabeth, I experienced my child’s kicks and “leaps,” a sensation I continue to find indescribable. Read on

2022 in Review: The Episcopal Church
By Kirk Petersen

The pandemic and the 80th General Convention vied for primacy among TLC's headlines. Read on

2022 in Review: Anglican Communion

By Mark Michael

Eyes were on England with the death of Queen Elizabeth II and a Lambeth Conference 14 years after the last gathering. Read on

A Legacy of Kindness at St. John's

By Charles Hoffacker

When my wife and I visited the parish of generations of my forebears, we experienced the sense of welcome that must have drawn them to the church. Read on

A Test of Faith
By Ben Lima

Herod the Great’s vain attempt to do away with the threat to his reign by killing all the baby boys in Bethlehem is an unavoidable obstacle to the sentimentalization of Christ’s birth. Read on

A Christmas Paradox
By Molly Jane Layton

If at Christmas we celebrate Immanuel, God coming to live on earth with humanity, then there is a whole lot of Christmas in John 1. Read on

The Incarnation: God’s Great Eucatastrophe
By Neal Michell

I suppose it is the simplicity of Christmas Day services — a sense of “Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart” (Luke 2:19) kind of simplicity — that touches me so. Read on

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