The book of James is a book all about wisdom. James is chalked full of the deeply practical wisdom that moves the community of the faithful along the path of Jesus through exhortation, inspiration, and warning. To read James as a community of faith in the season of Advent has the opportunity to inspire life practices that demonstrate the active waiting that comes as we watch and wait for the coming of the Lord. Undoubtedly, this text from James is the Epistle lesson for this third Sunday in...

What is the community of faith to do when the world around them has crashed and burned, when all they held dear, everything that assured...

I regularly think to myself, “I wonder if I’ll remember this?” I’m not exactly sure why this thought comes to mind so often for me. Most...