Believe it or not, today is the last Sunday of the calendar year. 2025 is coming to an end and it’s a natural time to reflect on where we’ve been and where we’re headed. But as today’s readings for the first Sunday of Christmas remind us, as we reflect, we would do well to do … Continue reading The Deeds of the LORD: A Reflection for the First Sunday of Christmas and Year-End Practices
Growing up in the final two decades of the last century, the legacy of the Second World War was very present for me. One of my grandfathers fought in the war to his lasting detriment, one of my grandmothers lost the love of her life because of the war, and school Remembrance Day assemblies were … Continue reading God’s D-Day: A Reflection for Christmas 2025
This Advent, we’ve been focused on the apocalyptic quality of the season, and how in times of community, national, and global crisis, we need apocalyptic — unlikely, tenacious, creative, and unapologetic — hope, peace, joy, and love to carry on and plant the seeds for a better and more caring and gracious future that more … Continue reading Apocalyptic Love: A Reflection for the Fourth Week of Advent 2025
In our world that has become so heavily imbalanced towards ideas like economic growth, efficiency, and hard work, joy is often neglected as something frivolous or superfluous, at best icing on the cake of life. But what marginalized communities know deep down from experience is that joy is far a ‘bonus’. It’s actually at the … Continue reading Apocalyptic Joy: A Reflection for the Third Week of Advent 2025
Last week, as we turned the page to a new liturgical year to the start of Advent, we saw how apocalyptic — that is, revelatory, unmasking — times, require apocalyptic measures: not just hope, peace, joy, and love, but apocalyptic — that is, unlikely, tenacious, creative — hope, peace, joy, and love. Today, as we … Continue reading Apocalyptic Peace: A Reflection for the Second Week of Advent 2025
Matthew Root 