Films for Waiting, Birth, & Embodiment
Featured Advent Films
Featured Advent Film SeriesAdvent: The Light That Guides Us
A five-film series with Peter Treben Haas on the Advent journey from the quiet mystery of waiting into the hope and renewal that the light of Christ brings.
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Adventus: Joining a Hope that is Come is one 35 minute film with a handful of theologians and practitioners offering their thoughts on Advent, a season of being remade in the dark.
See moreHoward Thurman Advent Liturgies
Featured Advent Film SeriesA Weary World
Kathy Escobar on honoring reality, being honest, holding paradox, and borrowing hope when the pain we may be crawling through collides with the hustle-and-bustle holiday season.
Preview SeriesJohn Phillip Newell Liturgy and Film On Incarnation
The Unraveling
4:30An Advent visual benediction for unraveling and salvation.
Hope Has Answered
2:34An Advent Poem.
Make Room
4:08An Advent invitation to make room.
Angels and a Holy Night
3:02A nativity reflection.
We are Bethlehem
3:59A visual benediction by Alana Levandoski.
I AM, You Are, We Are
5:18A responsive reading to be.
Walter Brueggemann Advent Prayer and Film
Featured Advent FIlms
Advent thoughts form Ilia Delio, Rachel Held Evans, Fleming Rutledge, Alexander J. Shaia, Nadia Bolz-Weber, and James Alison.
Celebrate the Waiting
2:21Rachel Held Evans on Advent.
Moving Onwards Towards
7:06Ilia Delio thoughts on Advent.
God's Grace Comes to Us
3:36In the deepest dark, God's greatest grace comes to our lives.
Acknowledge the Dark
6:06Fleming Rutledge on Advent.
Holy Thief
2:18Nadia Bolz-Weber on Advent.
Undoing Wrath
2:21Advent thoughts from James Alison.
Recapturing Advent
"God has made us a people of promise in a world of impatience."
- Stanley Hauerwas on Advent from the film Recapturing Advent
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Author & Theologian
Featured Advent FIlms
Advent thoughts from Alexander J. Shaia, Diana Butler Bass, Kelly Brown Douglas, Jurgen Moltmann, Emile Townes, and Brian Zahnd.
The Fresh Radiance of Christ
11:10Alexander John Shaia on Advent.
Upsetting the Pyramid
6:49Diana Butler Bass on seeing the Advent story a new.
The God That is Coming
2:54Kelly Brown Douglas on Advent.
Step Back and Step In
6:54Emilie Townes on Advent.
Learning How To Hope
2:48Brian Zahnd on Advent.
Pray and Watch
2:23Jürgen Moltmann on Advent.
Advent Visual Liturgy SeriesThe Waiting
A four-four film Advent contemplative series with music by The Brilliance.
Learn moreAdvent and Incarnation Thoughts and Poems
Advent thoughts from Barbara Brown Taylor, Malcolm Guite, Parker Palmer, Rudy Rasmus, Paul Young, and Marlon Hall
A Womb for a Wounded World
4:57Poet and priest Malcolm Guite recites two Advent poems.
Matter Matters
3:11Barbara Brown Taylor on why our flesh matters.
Fully Human
5:31Marlon Hall on being fully human.
Coming To Find Us
3:36The Shack author, Wm Paul Young, and his thoughts on the crisis of Advent.
The Risk Of Incarnation
5:26Parker Palmer on Advent and the Word made flesh.
A Resurrected Christmas
3:03Rudy Rasmus on Advent and the coming King.
A Walter Brueggemann Advent prayer ((from Awed from Heaven, Rooted In Earth: the Prayers of Walter Brueggemann)
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Featured Film SeriesMagnifying the Light
A five-session Advent film series on birthing God’s movement of grace.
See MoreAdvent "Classics"
Advent films from the vault. Like way back. Like the ones for the square tvs.
From Now On
5:00Pastor Ron Lewis questions the pithiness of the Season's gift cards.
Don't Be Afraid
3:22Do not be afraid...Here is your God!
Mary's Song
2:14"My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior."
Nothing Is Impossible
3:03Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God
Oh Come, Emmanuel
3:54Trapped in a death-dealing rhythm?
Little Drummer Boy
4:36A modern visual retelling of the traditional chorus.