Advent Online - Caitlyn’s MEGA list of Advent resources

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Dec 6

Experience Advent in your earbuds, on your phone, on social media, and online

The air is cooling, the nights are growing longer, the vestments in the worship space have turned blue – the season of Advent is upon us.

Advent practices often take a back seat to our Lenten fasts, thanks in no small part to the hustle and bustle of parties, decorating, and domestic preparations. It can be hard to slow down and devoutly read an Advent book, or piously pray the Daily Office, and fasting during Christmas Cookie Season is nearly out of the question.

Maybe you’re not a book person. Maybe you have a long commute. Or maybe you crave more this season.

Below you'll find Caitlyn’s MEGA list of ways you can experience Advent electronically, through your earbuds, on your cell phones, on your social media, and much more. God reached out to us in such an unlikely way – in baby boy born in a barn. God continues to reach out to us, meeting us where we are to call us to God's Love, even in our emails and Instagrams. Peruse the lists below to find what might be a place where God can reach out to you while waiting at your desk, in your car, or while you wait in line.

May you be blessed this Advent season as we celebrate Christ’s first coming and wait together in hope for his second coming.

Deacon Caitlyn

ALBUMS and PLAYLISTS

Listen to Advent, Vol. 1. on Spotify. The Brilliance · Album · 2011 · 8 songs.

A playlist featuring Johnny Cash, The Welcome Wagon, High Street Hymns, and others

Listen to Waiting Songs on Spotify. Rain For Roots · Album · 2015 · 10 songs.

Listen to Advent At Ephesus on Spotify. Benedictines Of Mary, Queen Of Apostles · Album · 2012 · 16 songs.

Listen to Advent on Spotify. The Calendar Years · Single · 2014 · 4 songs.

Listen to Advent B Sides on Spotify. The Brilliance · Single · 2013 · 4 songs.

Listen to Good News on Spotify. Ordinary Time · Album · 2016 · 13 songs.

Listen to 100 Years of Nine Lessons & Carols on Spotify. Stephen Cleobury · Album · 2018 · 37 songs.

Listen to A Light on Spotify. The Liturgists · Album · 2015 · 8 songs.

Listen to Advent (Deluxe) on Spotify. Young Oceans · Album · 2013 · 13 songs.

Listen to Advent to Christmas on Spotify. Page CXVI · Album · 2013 · 7 songs.

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PODCASTS

This weekly podcast offers ways to engage with the Way of Love, The Episcopal Church's intentional commitment to practicing faith by following Jesus. Hear stories and get practical advice from Bishop Michael Curry and others who are putting the Way of Love practices (Turn, Learn, Pray, Worship, Bless, Go, Rest) into action.

The Most Rev. Michael Curry is Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, and on this episode, we talk about love. Messy, hard, complicated love. I ask him how we can transcend fear in a scarcity-based culture and what we can learn from those who came before us.

Listen to Bible Love: A Scripture Podcast on Spotify. Bible Love is a conversation about scripture between Mary Balfour Dunlap (priest at Episcopal Church of the Resurrection in Greenwood, S.C.) and Alan Bentrup (priest on diocesan staff in the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina).

Daily inspirational meditations reflecting on a specific Bible passage, chosen from the daily lectionary readings. This podcast is a daily devotional offering from Forward Movement, a ministry of the Episcopal Church. Subscribe to the print edition (English and Spanish) of Forward Day by Day at forwardmovement.org

A Brave Space with Dr. Meeks will support the work of the Absalom Jones Center for Racial Healing in its mission of creating brave space where the truth can be told. The sessions will explore various topics that address the intersections between slavery, lynching, the prison industrial complex, the death penalty and 21st-century police killings and the ways in which these issues prohibit racial healing in America.

Jenn Giles Kemper of www.sacredordinarydays.com & Lacy Clark Ellman of www.asacredjourney.net talk about Advent—the first season in the liturgical year—and share favorite themes and practices as they embrace the invitations of the season and prepare for Christmas.

The Living Church Foundation publishes The Living Church magazine (in continuous publication since 1878), the Covenant blog, and other Christian teaching resources. Our historic mission in the Episcopal Church and Anglican Communion is to seek and serve the Catholic and evangelical faith of the one Church, to the end of visible Christian unity throughout the world.

An hour to sit with, and be filled. Two voices - one from the last century, one from ours - who inspire inward contemplation as an essential part of meeting the challenges in the world. Howard Thurman's book Jesus and the Disinherited, it was said, was carried by Martin Luther King Jr.

Life isn't always bright and shiny, as Kate Bowler knows. Kate is a young mother, writer and professor who, at age 35, was suddenly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer. In, warm, insightful, often funny conversations, Kate talks with people about what they've learned in dark times.

Yale Divinity School Professor Teresa Berger discusses how digital media is fostering online faith communities and religious practice. She weighs in on the possibility of God working through Wi-Fi and whether social media should be required for church leaders in the twenty-first century.

CAITLYN’S FOUR FAVORITE ADVENT BOOKS

Honest Advent
*Awakening to the Wonder of God-With-Us Then, Here, and Now*

For those who are looking for something honest, something real, something with a little more human grit to it and a little less conventional red and green: *Honest Advent* offers a new kind of devotional.

Purchase

Advent

*The Once & Future Coming of Jesus Christ*

"Advent," says Fleming Rutledge, "is definitely not for sissies." As the midnight of the Christian year, Advent is rife with dark, gritty realities. In this book Rutledge spotlights the rich significance of the Advent season not just as transitional but as vibrant and profound in its own right.

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Watch for the Light

Fifty devotions that invite you to contemplate the great themes of Christmas and the significance that the coming of Jesus has for each of us - not only during Advent, but every day. Whether dipped into at leisure or used on a daily basis, *Watch for the Light* gives the phrase "holiday preparations" new depth and meaning.

Purchase

Haphazard by Starlight
*A Poem A Day From Advent To Epiphany*

Like the Magi who travelled a long distance to search out and adore the infant Jesus, and who took some wrong turns on the way, we too have a journey to undertake before we find that we have “Walked haphazard by starlight straight/Into the kingdom of heaven.”

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APPS

Pilgrimage - St. Martin’s, a virtual Holy Land pilgrimage on Google Play and the App Store
Venite: Daily Prayer and Meditation app on Google Play and the App Store
d365 Daily Devotionals by PASSPORT Camps on Google Play and the App Store
Day by Day by Forward Movement on Google Play and the App Store

EMAIL

#AdventWord -- adventword.org
Brother Give Us a Word by the Society of St. John the Evangelist -- ssje.org/word
Daily Advent Reflections by SPCK -- spckpublishing.co.uk/advent
d365 Daily Devotionals -- d365.org
Busted Halo -- advent.bustedhalo.com