The Rev. Mike Angell is rector of The Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion in St. Louis.
Advent is an invitation to hope. We learn quickly from Jesus that hope is not something light and fluffy. Hope takes grit. Hope means taking risks. Hope means leaning into conflict, and living with the complexity, not settling for easy answers.
In times like these, I invite you to observe this season of Advent. If this year, if recent days have been difficult, take up Advent’s practice of hope.
For those who are #woke there are two ways to encounter the world, despair or hope.
