Advent offers more questions than answers, more uncertainty than peace and hope and joy. Advent requires honesty; and honesty can lead to lament, to pain, to unanswered questions, and finally to prayer: Come, thou long expected Jesus. Continue reading What are we waiting for? Earth and Altar Article
This sermon was preached for St. John’s Episcopal Church in Lynchburg, VA on the First Sunday of Advent, Year B 2023.Photo by Ben Cowgill of All Saints Chapel in Sewanee, TN on a foggy day.Isaiah 64:1-9; Mark 13:24-37 Happy Advent! This weekend’s fog took me by surprise— as maybe it did many of you. As I drove down 29 on my way to my wife … Continue reading The First Sunday of Advent, 2023
Ben Cowgill 