On the evening we decorated our Christmas tree, my mom always spent what felt like hours arranging the strings of white lights. I waited with the same impatient anticipation I had experienced all of ...

Advent is a criminally underrated liturgical season. It gets swallowed up in the pre-Christmas rush, and it's shorter and less intense than Lent, but it's a beautiful, quiet period worth marking.

When Jane Lagerquist came to Angie O’Connell’s home in West St. Paul, Minn., during Advent seven years ago, the friends looked at O’Connell’s paper-laminated Jesse Tree ornaments and talked about how ...

Advent, the season preparing us for Christmas, began a few days ago. Two questions come to my mind. Is it possible to prepare spiritually to celebrate Christmas in our hectic and consumeristic climate ...