Tag: apocalyptic

  • Giving in Love — Jesus’s Alternative to Fear

    Giving in Love — Jesus’s Alternative to Fear

    As tempests swirl and hatred flows around us, Jesus reminds us that we already know the way to live, the way to be is to love generously.

  • Apocalyptic Urgency—for Advent 1A

    Apocalyptic Urgency—for Advent 1A

    Jesus tells his followers to do something more than prepare: to feel an urgency, to be ready, for the need is urgent and ongoing.

  • To live in the love of God — for Proper 28C

    To live in the love of God — for Proper 28C

    In this challenging gospel, Jesus invites his followers to not just endure, but to keep up the purpose: living, loving, and being.

  • A Christian New Year

    A Christian New Year

    This first Sunday in Advent, we explore Jesus’s apocalyptic vision and what it says about the way we work through our present.

  • Let’s get apocalyptic! Again!

    Let’s get apocalyptic! Again!

    The apocalyptic talk of the first week of Advent gives us a different opportunity to explore what is going on in the world around us.

  • Between Proper 29 + Advent 1 (Year C)

    Between Proper 29 + Advent 1 (Year C)

    The new liturgical year begins where the old one ended: with apocalyptic talk and concern for the future—a most familiar feeling.

  • When everything changes

    When everything changes

    Beginning Advent with the Little Apocalypse inspires fear when we’d rather see joy—but reveals that we’re actually afraid of joy.

  • Getting Apocalyptic

    Getting Apocalyptic

    We begin Advent with an apocalyptic gospel—here’s why it is not only fitting, but important for us to deal with our own apocalyptic lives.