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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

Earlier this Fall, there was about a two-day period when the media was obsessed over a ‘rapture’ prediction by some Christian Fundamentalists that had gone viral on social media. Naturally, these predictions came to nothing. I say ‘naturally’, not only because is the idea of the rapture a pretty new idea with a very weak … Continue reading Apocalyptic Hope: A Reflection for the First Week of Advent 2025