Sierra White shares a personal story and discusses what it taught her about hope.

Laura Jean Truman asks us to think about what steps of hope we can make this Advent season.

Lexie Coyle shares a personal story that changed Advent for her, and how she was able to find hope in the midst of it.

Jessica Kantrowitz discusses darkness and allowing ourselves to feel what we feel about it.

I’ve heard faith described as a muscle—something that gets stronger with use and atrophies with disuse. Difficult times, I’ve been told, will “strengthen my faith.”

Every night, I sneak into my daughter's room to kiss and pray for her. I find her twisted into an unnatural position, with her stuffed animals neatly lined up at the bottom of her bed. This scene perfectly sums up her personality.