Waiting in the Dark

Here are some resources mentioned in the Waiting in the Dark Why We Need Advent This Year webcast conversation between Lacy Finn Borgo, Kai Nilsen, and Carolyn Arends.

Books and Resources Recommended by Lacy Finn Borgo

• Spiritual Conversations with Children: Listening to God Together
• Good Dirt: Advent, Christmastide & Epiphany (Volume 1)
• Good Dirt: Lent, Holy Week & Eastertide (Volume 2) 
• Good Dirt: Kingdomtide (Volume 3)
• Worship Wood Works
• Pauses for Advent by Trevor Hudson

Resources recommended by Kai Nilsen

• Renew Your Life: Discovering the Wellspring of God’s Energy
• For Everything a Season: 75 Blessings for Life’s Milestones
• The 2020 Advent resource booklet for Incarnation Lutheran (Kai’s church)

Carolyn Arends’ Advent and Christmas Music

• Enjoy Carolyn’s Musical Advent Calendar
• Vacancy (recorded version)
• Vacancy (video of live performance for webinar — feel free to use/share)
• Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus (song used for countdown)
• Christmas: The Story of Stories (full album)
• Christmas: An Irrational Season (full album)

Other Resources Mentioned in the Webinar and Chat:

• Some of Renovaré’s Favorite Advent Resources
• Richella Parham: An Advent Prayer Companion (Free Download)
• Tsh Oxenreider: Shadow and Light: A Journey into Advent
• Illustrated Ministry: Do Not Be Afraid
• Joyce Huggett: Waiting and Watching: A Reflective Group Study Course for Advent to Epiphany
• Audrey Assad: I Shall Not Want
• Laura Funk is offering: Guided Advent Meditations
• Sacred Ordinary Days (Planners and Resources)
• Litanies for Holiday Remembrance or Blue Christmas Services (from Phil Assink)
• Advent/Christma Devotional (based on Howard Thurman’s ​“I Will Light Candles at Christmas”) from PCUSA

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