Make Advent Great Again

When the headlines bleed and your relatives are screaming at each other online, who knows what "home for the holidays" is going to mean this year? What happens when those December dates that used to bring such joy (the ones that once set the steady rhythm of your spiritual journey each year) suddenly don’t provide the reliable comfort they used to? Instead of being more deeply connected to God, family, and faith community, our world seems to be sneering at the season.

We’ve been listening.

We’ve heard a lot from our friends this season - Jesus-followers and spiritual free-agents, activists and artists, ministers and moms - that you just can’t this Christmas: shopping for gifts, making plans to see family, lighting the Advent candles, awaiting the birth of the Christ-child anew. It all feels so remote.Many of us are struggling. What on earth does ‘Emmanuel’ mean when the world’s going mad?

While the Religious Right is once again gearing up its theatrics about a made-up "War on Christmas," you've been waking up to the reality that education cutbacks, healthcare decimation, immigrant intimidation, war agitating, and the reality televisionification of our politics and cultural discourse amount to nothing less than a War on Advent. Advent, a word we often don’t even hear any more: the often-overlooked season preceding Christmas, where the open-hearted, empty-handed friends of God have recognized for millennia that when all is bleakest, this is precisely when we let go of our burdens and wait. Spiritual and cultural ideals have been hijacked this season by many politicians and preachers who want to "Make America Great Again." But there’s an alternative. We’re creating a pop-up community - to help each other Make Advent Great Again.

We’re giving you daily reflections that plant potent seeds of hope to counter the weeds of that Grinch-ly other MAGA. We’re offering a weekly check-in video that you can tune into live (or whenever you want) where we’ll cover:

Mother Mary and Us: Recovering a Radical Christmas of Renewal & Resistance
How to Go Home for the Holidays without Losing Your Soul
Grounding in the Ultimate Gift: The Advent of Us
We’re providing a private, safer-space discussion group where we can be totally honest about our struggles and breakthroughs. A ‘home base’ to truly Make Advent Great Again, one day at a time

a pop-up community

Make Advent Great Again

an oasis of sanity and support for holiday resistance and renewal

Advent will be great again starting in:

The holidays are hard when you’re losing your faith.

If you’re here right now, you’re in good company.

In other words, we’re creating a pop-up community for holiday resistance and renewal.

Make Advent Great Again will feature reflections from...