Light and Darkness

December 2024 - February 2025

Like Advent, the season of winter is a season 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 can even be closed off in our own minds, as the dark and cold work their way inward.

But the story doesn’t end there. The limits aren’t just a challenge–they are an opportunity.

The constriction–of time, space, and everything we do with both–gives us a chance to work within it. To create concentrated warmth and cheer. To make rich food and hot drinks. To tell stories. To linger. To see each other more fully, in long conversations by the fire.

This is a poignant picture of the life of the church. We see darkness and cold all around us. But with our redeemed imaginations, we can not only acknowledge these things; we can live in intentional defiance of them, for the life of the world.

In this abbreviated quarter before we launch our first fully planned quarter in March, our content will focus on this theme–the reality of the darkness, but a calendar full of warmth, cheer, and hope that go out in defiance of it.

FOR THIS SEASON

Readings for Advent

Podcasts for Advent

Artist Feature

Creating from the Darkness: ISAAC hANS, Photographer

This is the little corner where we’ll be highlighting a visual artist that is making work that interacts with what Anselm is discussing at large.

Gatherings

A Candlelit Sung Compline

Saturday, December 7, 2024
7:00pm – 8:00pm

All Ages Advent Dinner & Short Story Read Aloud

Saturday, December 28, 2024
5:00pm – 8:00pm

Narnia Christmas Party

Saturday, December 28, 2024
5:00pm – 8:00pm

 COMING SOON

Imagination Redeemed Podcast -

New Season’s Episodes, Monthly (Starting January 5th, 2025)