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Derek Cianfrance and Leigh Moore spoke about the film’s peculiar inclusion of Christmas songs, the ways our capitalist s...
12/22/2025

Derek Cianfrance and Leigh Moore spoke about the film’s peculiar inclusion of Christmas songs, the ways our capitalist society instills harmful expectations around provision, and the power of a church that lives out Jesus’ call to love the least of these.

Director Derek Cianfrance told Sojourners that he wanted to depict the church in a way that embodied Jesus’ teachings of radical inclusion.

Some churches seek tangible ways for people to remember their loved ones. (2017)
12/21/2025

Some churches seek tangible ways for people to remember their loved ones. (2017)

“You may not have felt very free to cry in front of other people in this season but this is one time and place where you may feel free to express yourself in any way that feels good to you.”

"If you wrote down your past year’s most significant personal joys and losses on a timeline, how might they line up with...
12/21/2025

"If you wrote down your past year’s most significant personal joys and losses on a timeline, how might they line up with the liturgical calendar — Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Holy Week, Eastertide, and Ordinary Time?"

In Even After Everything, Stephanie Duncan Smith shares her story of loss and love with unflinching honesty.

"My gifts this year won’t be extravagant. For the first time in many years, however, they will be purchased used (or tra...
12/21/2025

"My gifts this year won’t be extravagant. For the first time in many years, however, they will be purchased used (or traded, made, or cooked) before Dec. 24."

Learning something new by buying nothing new.

"In a cultural moment where religious deconstruction is being widely discussed, Mary offers us hope."
12/21/2025

"In a cultural moment where religious deconstruction is being widely discussed, Mary offers us hope."

During my own period of deconstruction, I found Mary to be more comforting than God.

Health care not fair don’t care too bare/Leaving out the poor /The children and the elders /Like mountainous boulders /C...
12/21/2025

Health care not fair don’t care too bare/
Leaving out the poor /
The children and the elders /
Like mountainous boulders /
Come crashing and crushing
(Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, 2017)

We’re made in the image / The Message expresses / The Good News attests / That we’re formed out of sod

"We don’t know how the Holy Family was treated when they reached that foreign country."
12/20/2025

"We don’t know how the Holy Family was treated when they reached that foreign country."

Only 8 percent of U.S. churches are helping refugees.

"I can’t preach that gospel enough — love yourself as you try to love others."
12/20/2025

"I can’t preach that gospel enough — love yourself as you try to love others."

Darren Calhoun shares advice for q***r Christians who want to build relationships without compromising their own peace or safety.

"As we journey through this season more alone than we imagined, help us experience your presence."
12/20/2025

"As we journey through this season more alone than we imagined, help us experience your presence."

Let us learn from our Indigenous and immigrant sisters and brothers.

"What would it mean for more of our churches to teach that having emotions like anger and deep sadness and frustration a...
12/20/2025

"What would it mean for more of our churches to teach that having emotions like anger and deep sadness and frustration after a tragedy or loss is OK? That to demand justice is a righteous act?"

Bad theology wrapped in good and loving intentions is still bad theology.

We, the ordinary people of the streets, believe with all our might that this street, this world, where God has placed us...
12/20/2025

We, the ordinary people of the streets, believe with all our might that this street, this world, where God has placed us, is our place of holiness. -Madeleine Debrêl

Today's verse, voice, and prayer to inspire your day.

"While the White House may use policies meant to restrict abortion as a chance to tout Trump’s 'life-affirming' credenti...
12/20/2025

"While the White House may use policies meant to restrict abortion as a chance to tout Trump’s 'life-affirming' credentials, his actions complicate the narrative."

Pro-lifers held up Donald Trump as their champion. He’s really a showcase for the movement’s greatest failures.

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