Blog • Dec 31, 2025

Feasting in Faith

How our family rings in the new year with an eye toward heaven, by Timothy S. Radcliff

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Unfashionably Late

How senior editor Jennifer Woodruff Tait celebrates Christmas

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Awaiting the Bridegroom's Return

What does historical betrothal tell us about Advent?

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The Sacred Rhythm of Orthodox Fasting: A Historical Perspective

A guest post by Zeeva Usman

Magazine articles • Issue 157 • Nov 12, 2025

Text turmoil

How heated debate shaped Vatican II documents and their interpretation

Magazine articles • Issue 157 • Nov 12, 2025

“That they may be one”

Vatican II and a new spirit of ecumenism

Magazine articles • Issue 157 • Nov 12, 2025

Gifts of the Spirit

Vatican II and charismatic renewal 

Magazine articles • Issue 157 • Nov 12, 2025

Reformers of Rome

Some Catholic leaders who influenced Vatican II

Magazine articles • Issue 157 • Nov 12, 2025

Legacy and longevity

impressions of Vatican II

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Quote of the day

“Begin to praise Him in the tone of your spirit. May God the blessed Comforter help you to do it by a calm, equable frame of mind, by a Divine placidit...”

Spurgeon, Charles. “The Right Keynote for the New Year.” Intended to be read on January 1, 1893.

Devotional

A Paradox for New Year’s Day

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold all things have become new....