Another Starry Black Night : A Womanist Advent

Introduction

Where to Begin When the Ending is Just the Beginning When I started, it was clear what I should write for this devotion. Like all good procrastinators I did not write anything down. It was raw and emotional, and though that makes for great content, it needed to settle. So,

First Sunday of Advent

by Carla Jones Brown

Mark 13:24-37 “24 “But in those days, after that time of distress, the sun will be darkened, the moon will lose its brightness, 25 the stars will fall from the sky and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.

Mid-Week 1

by Bridgett A. Green

Advent’s Hope Fuels Our Possibilities Isaiah 41:14-2014 Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you maggot[a] Israel!I will help you, says the Lord; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.15 I will make of you a threshing sledge, sharp, new, and having teeth;you shall thresh the mountains

Second Sunday of Advent

by Brooke Scott

Mother God’s Porch Awaits Isaiah 40:1-11 Comfort, O comfort my people,says your God.Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,and cry to herthat she has served her term,that her penalty is paid,that she has received from the Lord’s handdouble for all her sins. A

Mid-Week 2

by Shantell Hinton-Hill

Body Language Luke 1:5-17 What happens to the abandoned and unanswered prayers that we’ve set aside due to God’s silence? What happens when everything you ever hoped for slips away after years of doing everything “right” for God? I think

Third Sunday of Advent

by Paula Owens Parker

Red Letters: Ain’t Nothing But the Truth Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 The spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the

Mid-Week 3

by Dartinia Hull

All will be well. To visit the Black Madonna in Montserrat, Catalonia, visitors can take a ski lift into the sky or drive along a winding cliffside road that winds to the foot of the snaggle-tooth mountain that’s unlike any

Fourth Sunday of Advent

by Shavon Starling-Louis

Luke 1:46-55 As we round out the Advent season, we are again reminded that in the birth of Jesus The Christ, we find the embodiment of God’s liberative promise. This Christmas Eve, we have an invitation to ponder this glorious

Christmas Day

by Traci Blackmon

God Shows Up Isaiah 52: 7-10 (NRSVUE) How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace, who brings good news, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns.” Listen! Your sentinels lift up

First Sunday after Christmas

by valerie izumi

Joyful Resistance: The Power of Hope Isaiah 61:10-62:3 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,my whole being shall exult in my God;For God has clothed me with the garments of salvation,the Holy One has covered me with the robe of

New Years

by Amy E. Steele

Birthing Liberation in Bethlehem Luke 2:15-21 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has

Mid-Week Christmas

by Shani McIlwain

John 6:15-27 Years after the divorce I returned to the dating pool, (which is completely filled with bacteria, and all other debris by the way.) I was very confident in the fact that in the few years prior I did

Epiphany

by Karen Georgia Thompson

Discovering the Divine Isaiah 60:1-6; Matthew 2:1-12 The new calendar year begins. The liturgical calendar turns to Epiphany, following closely on the Advent season with its clear themes of love, joy, peace and hope. Epiphany feels quiet, nested in the