Below is an excerpt from my new Advent ebook, Four Weeks: Reflections for Advent. When I began seminary, I bought a pine forest-scented candle for my apartment. That summer I had discovered how watching a burning flame had the power to quiet my soul and help center my attention on my own thoughts. Candles haveContinue reading “Four Weeks Book Excerpt: Scent”
Monthly Archives: November 2022
No Perfect Time Book Excerpt: Darren
The following is an excerpt from No Perfect Time: Brief Essays on Life and Faith. Today marks 20 years since the events described in this essay, and I wanted to mark this important day by sharing it. While I was in college, I joined a fraternity. A lot of people who have never been inContinue reading “No Perfect Time Book Excerpt: Darren”
Four Weeks Book Excerpt: Lights
Below is an excerpt from my new Advent ebook, Four Weeks: Reflections for Advent. In my elementary school years, we lived in a parsonage out in the country, surrounded by corn and tarred gravel roads. Our nearest neighbors lived a half mile away, and other than the church there wasn’t a whole lot of reasonContinue reading “Four Weeks Book Excerpt: Lights”
Jeffrey A. Nelson 