Today we start the new Church Year with the beginning of a new season of Advent. Regular worshippers here will have noticed that there is no Altar at the Crossing, immediately in front of the ...

ATLANTA, GA, Dec. 02, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Day1, the national weekly ecumenical radio, podcast, and streaming program produced by the Alliance for Christian Media, broadcasting inspiring sermons ...

The main theme of the liturgy of the third Sunday, whose readings are Isaiah 35:1-6a, 10; Psalm 146; James 5:7-10; Matthew 11:2-11, is a call for Christian hope and courage.

Advent is often described as a season of hope. But what is hope, and what do we hope for? I suggested last Sunday that the categories of our hope are frequently too narrow, and too domesticated. In ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Story Text: (This is the 35th installment of the UPI series of sermons and the first in the new church year. In his homily, the Rev. Dr. Johannes Richter, former ...