Winter
Winter
GOD IN THE FLESH
december 2025 —February 2026
The season of winter can be full of darkness, cold, and waiting. Winter creates limits: the days are shorter, we’re stuck inside, and the sun itself (or at least its warmth) is elusive. Often we even can be closed off in our own minds, as the dark and cold work their way inward. We are made keenly aware of our longing for restoration.
But the story doesn’t end there. The limits aren’t just a challenge—they are an opportunity.
It is into the midst of our world's limitations that the God of the universe slips after months of darkness in a womb. God is not afraid of constriction. Beginning on that one unique dark night, He instead works within time and space, and offers us an invitation to participate with him.
We embody godly generosity and joviality as a community full of hope precisely in the space and time allotted to us—not in one grand gesture but in the habitual creation of concentrated warmth and cheer. In making rich food and hot drinks. In telling stories. In lingering, as we see each other more fully, in long conversations by the fire.
This is a poignant picture of the life of the Church. While we see darkness and cold all around us, with our redeemed imaginations, we can live in intentional defiance of them, as God in the flesh did.
Our winter content will focus on this theme—the reality of God in the flesh (and what that means!), with a calendar full of warmth, cheer, and hope because our Lord is found with us in our limitations.
For the Season:
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Featured Articles
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Imagination Redeemed
Coming Soon!
Believe to See
Coming Soon!
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Common Room
Saturday, December 13, 2025
12:00pm – 5:00pm
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Artist Feature
Music Feature
December
ADVENT
December
ADVENT
Laughter, fit for a king
In a world that oscillates between forced positivity and cynical despair, we've lost something essential: the ancient art of joviality. The ripening of age can bring a heartier laugh, but only paradoxically through the birth of a child, unnoticed by many and tucked away in a manger. Read more about this winter season’s theme →
Imagination Redeemed Podcast Episodes
In every episode, we retell one of the great stories, then follow its illumination to delve deeper into conversation about how to enter into the life of the Christian imagination.
Postcard, Austria
St Nicholas Center Collection
St. Nicholas and the Art of Joy
Through the legendary story of St. Nicholas secretly flinging gold through windows at midnight, we discover how joviality transforms not just moments but entire lives—and why its near-extinction in modern culture may be one of our greatest spiritual crises
Featured Article
Invite P.G. Wodehouse to Your Holidays and be Prepared to Laugh
Annie Nardone pairs the late British humorist's books with two fun drinks in her latest Pages, Pints, and Pours. Read Now →
Anselm Voices
Malcolm Guite’s “Waiting on the Word”
“Advent is the season when we prepare ourselves for the coming of Christ at Christmas – a season for slowing down and reflecting on the great spiritual themes of light and dark, life and death. But while all around us the world speeds up in pre-Christmas rush, it can be difficult to find a place for stillness and contemplation. Malcolm Guite suggests one way is to read a poem each day, and in his new book Waiting on the Word (Canterbury 2015), he chooses a favourite poem from across the Christian spiritual and English literary traditions for every day in Advent and Christmas, and offers a seasonal reflection on it.”
Additional Readings for Advent
Additional Podcasts for Advent
Artist Feature
RETHINKING
OFFENSIVE ART:
Isaac Hans reacts to Andres Serrano's disturbing art and its message.
mUSIC Feature
MOURNING INTO DANCING: A Mixtape Journey
Jacoby Elliott shares how
God, and dance music, brought
healing after a terrible grief.