Weariness seems to be a common experience this Advent. With gifts to buy, parties to attend, and work to complete before year's end, this season that represents waiting can feel more like an ever-ticking clock reminding us just how little time there is left to get it all done. So often, just when we feel we've completed our efforts for the day, a pinging sound or illuminated phone pierces our peace, letting us know that there is one more email, text, or task awaiting us.
In "Turn Toward Each Other and Away from the Screen," Carrie McKean encourages readers to put down the phone and be present with people. While to-dos will remain, the tension may lessen as we reset our priorities.
"In sending his only Son Jesus, God 'showed his love among us,' it says in [1 John 4:9]," writes McKean. "In Advent, we anticipate that coming: the Word made flesh. Embodied. Incarnational. Not God in a spiritual or digital form, but God who sits at the table and laughs with you. God at a coffee shop, if you will."
There's still time for slowing. As Christmas draws closer, may we turn toward one another.
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As we enter the holiday season, we consider how the places to which we belong shape us—and how we can be the face of welcome in a broken world. In this issue, you’ll read about how a monastery on Patmos offers quiet in a world of noise and, from Ann Voskamp, how God’s will is a place to find home. Read about modern missions terminology in our roundtable feature and about an astrophysicist’s thoughts on the Incarnation. Be sure to linger over Andy Olsen’s reported feature "An American Deportation" as we consider Christian responses to immigration policies. May we practice hospitality wherever we find ourselves.
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