Because I love the Christian season of Advent that leads up to Christmas, I will again be writing each week of Advent a piece around the week’s theme and inviting you into a spiritual practice with me. I felt almost everything…
Because I love the Christian season of Advent that leads up to Christmas, I will again be writing each week of Advent a piece around the week’s theme and inviting you into a spiritual practice with me. Early morning darkness comforts…
Five or six years ago, I began to notice it. That tingly tightening of anxiety across my chest as I thought about the many favorite cookies I wanted to make for the Christmas season — a feeling that that emerges far…
According to the book of Phillipians, God’s peace is something “which surpasses all understanding.” (Phillipians 4:7, ESV) If it surpasses all understanding, how then do we access it? You just have to feel it. Or fumble around for it. I remember…
We have a problem with darkness. Not only because the white majority in the U.S. has some seriously, immoral unresolved needs for power and control over people with darker skin. Not only because we anesthetize ourselves with drugs, alcohol, food, caffeine…
Adapted from a sermon preached by Rev. Nicole Havelka on Dec. 8, 2013 at Pilgrim UCC, St. Joseph, MI For months, I nodded along politely while my fellow seminary students earnestly discussed their daily prayer and meditation practices. I was totally…
Rev. Nicole Havelka kicks off the Iowa Conference UCC Advent devotional series with a little inside joke here among the Iowa Conference staff. Then, she invites you to answer the question, “What are YOU hoping for?”
Recent Comments