Dec. 2—Advent — the four weeks before Christmas — evokes a lot of feelings from different people: anticipation, expectation, preparation or peace, joy, hope and love. But essentially, it's ...

For many, Christmas celebrations follow the four main themes of Advent: hope, peace, joy, and love. Subscribe to have The Washington Times’ Higher Ground delivered to your inbox every Sunday.

The birth of Jesus at Christmas is all about hope, peace, joy and love, writes Lauren Green of Fox News this holiday season — here's why this matters and the origin stories of each.

Advent This Advent, Jesus Christ 'is the only hope we have for peace,' says expert on religious freedom Faith leaders reveal why 'the hope of God is what we need in America in 2023' ...

But some traditions give the candles an extra layer symbolism, each representing a theme: Hope, peace, joy and love. Our world is beset by brutal wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

Advent hope and love, then, are intimately interwoven. Advent love gratefully affirms the possibility of full being that God offers us, a gift signaled by the birth of the Christ-child.

The church calendar is not amiss on this important occasion. "Each week of Advent focuses on a different theme — hope, peace, joy, and love.

December is the month of amazing celebration. Usually the four Sundays in December are Advent Sundays, with a focus each Sunday on an attribute of the season: Hope/Faith, Peace, Love, Joy.

At Advent, a welcome silence Inspired by the courage and faith of the Syrian people, Tarabeh said hope is "a choice to believe in God's faithfulness. … Their lives reflect the peace and joy that ...

The Christian season of Advent promises light at the end of a period of darkness. In a time of war and devastating, draining natural disasters, it's high time for a bit of hope.

Our Advent faith is not an escape from the world to a misty realm of slogans and comforts which declare our problems to be unreal, our tragedies nonexistent," - Thomas Merton, Seasons of Celebration.