Advent 2025

All of us live in exile in a real way. As St. Paul puts it, we see as “through a glass, darkly”, separated always partially from God and each other. We experience some love, some community, some restfulness, but never these in their fullness. Karl Rahner once said, “in the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable, we learn that here, in this life, there is no finished symphony.”

Advent will begin on Sunday November 30. We exiles await the full realization of the Kingdom of God, when the arc of the moral universe will bend toward full justice and equality for all people. And the love of God will inevitably prevail over all. Thanks be to God.
Let us wait together this Advent season-

Grace and peace,

Anita Sorenson
Pastor for Spiritual Formation