Sometimes when you know something big is going to happen, it is actually comforting to get the ball rolling.

Each of us cries out for justice while knowing that we ourselves have not always been just.

How do you know who you are, and whom you’re called to be? It could be as simple as paying attention to your generation and its circumstances.

The greatest of all world-righting movements was established more than 2,000 years ago. It began with a voice crying in the wilderness. Its defining characteristic was nonviolence. 

The culmination of John the Baptist's preaching was to focus everyone on the will of God and to point to God's son, Jesus, the one "who is mightier than I."

No one can make us more nervous than John the Baptist. He challenges us to prepare ourselves for real changes in our lives, ironic in this season of traditions.

My husband forgave my cousin for something I know hurt him very deeply. I am glad to have the example of both these people in my life. They heard the voice crying in the wilderness.

Gathered as a community of faith, we cry out to the God who saves us.

John the Baptist appeared in the desert proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

John the Baptist . . . was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth. --James Green Somerville