Fearless Faith

This Advent season finds our social fabric a bit tested and threadbare. That reflects neither complaint nor critique, but rather a shared consensus view that things are not all they could be. Is that so different than previous seasons or is there something novel, a new wilderness in the mix?

John the Baptist would likely suggest that wilderness is wilderness and lostness is lostness and to acknowledge either one is to know truth. To broach the wilds is about bringing a knowing attitude that is more than mere characterization, a way of living where we are called to work past the rough edges in...