Resources for Advent and Beyond
Last Sunday after Pentecost, 2025
This Sunday is the last one in Year C; after this (and after Thanksgiving) comes the first Sunday in Advent for Year A. It’s been fun (if challenging) to blog weekly from texts and themes in HARP; starting next week we’ll return to blogging twice a month. We hope you continue to find HARP a key resource for doing the important work of reading scripture in our time of so many crises. We still need your partnership in getting word about this book into “seminaries, sanctuaries and streets”; please help us build capacity to heal Affluenza and resist Plutocracy!
Today, we’re highlighting multiple resources, including for Advent.
1. Ched’s CLBSJ conversation last week with Chuck Collins
Here’s the link to a recording of my CLBSJ conversation last week with Chuck Collins, an activist Catholic who is carrying on Jesus’ uncompromising critique of the rich while embracing God’s dream of equity and justice, most recently in his Burned by Billionaires. We highly recommend that you buy and read both books, together, in your study circle, classroom, or church adult ed group. In that spirit, we’re offering a “bundle” deal of both volumes for $50 (our cost) to the first five of you who email Chris (inquiries@bcm-net.org; U.S. only). A great holiday gift that meets this moment!
2. Advent Resources from colleague-friends:
Sarah Holst has created a beautiful Advent Workbook for kids and adults called “We Are Never Alone: A Watershed Discipleship Advent Workbook.” It offers daily coloring pages for Dec 1 to 25, with accompanying Scripture and reflection. Available here as either a physical copy or downloadable PDF. Check out this beautiful resource and share it with family and friends this Advent.
Two Online Advent Bible Studies (unfortunately at the same times!) from:
The Center & Library for the Bible and Social Justice: “What Are We Waiting For? Scriptural and Social Justice Approaches to Christology” from three angles:
- December 4: Christ and the Earth with James Perkinson and S. Lily Mendoza
- December 11: Christ and Palestine with Niveen Sarras and Jenny Veninga
- December 18: Christ and Peacemaking with Will O’Brien & Rabia Terri Harris
7:30 pm ET. Click on links above to register for each separately (optional sliding scale donation is encouraged; all are welcome regardless of ability to donate).
Kirkridge Retreat Center: “An Unexpected Birth: Advent in the Fascist Apocalypse.”
- December 4: A Thief in the Night (Apocalypse)
- December 11: Radical Hospitality (Mary and Elizabeth)
- December 18: Getting in Formation (Joseph)
7-8:30pm ET. Registration on a sliding scale; details here.
3. HHH online study class
Upcoming online class on Healing Haunted Histories, facilitated by our associates Steve Taylor and Dr. Lynne Caldwell. Register by Dec 15th here!
4. Sale on our Wipf & Stock titles
Special book sale thru November 30. Wipf and Stock is offering a 50% discount on all books, including our publications Healing Haunted Histories,
Watershed DiscipleshipandLiberating Biblical Studies: Scholarship, Art & Action! Use code CONFSHIP at checkout. If you select Media Mail, shipping is free. It’s a perfect time for you to get a copy or buy one for a friend. Share this sale on your social channels or email lists to help spread the word!
