Our Hope and Expectation Large Print: Devotions for Advent & Christmas 2020-2021

Our Hope and Expectation explores the Advent season and celebrates the joy of the twelve days of Christmas and the day of Epiphany. It includes daily devotions based on year B scripture readings (in the Revised Common Lectionary) for Sundays and festival days between the first Sunday of Advent (November 29, 2020) and Epiphany (January 6, 2021). In addition to devotions, the book offers household blessings and prayers to enrich your preparations and celebrations.

Paul Hoffmanis Professor of New Testament at the University of Bamberg, Germany.

Rozella Hayd‚e White is a life and leadership coach, creator, and consultant. She is the owner of RHW Consulting, which accompanies individuals, organizations, and communities as they figure out what is meaningful and then work to create and live into values that reflect their understanding of a meaningful life. As a writer, teacher, preacher, and public theologian, Rozella boldly engage issues of faith, justice, self awareness and love, mental illness, and the radical and transformative love of God as embodied in the person of Jesus. Rozella is a contributing author for Renew 52: 50+ Ideas to Revitalize Your Congregation by Leaders Under 50 and Anonymous: Naming the God of Esther and the Women Who Plant Churches and is coauthor of Free Indeed: Devotions for Lent 2017 and the LEAD Work Out Guide: Calling People of Faith into Meaningful, Wider Relationships. Along with publishing articles in Gather, she also writes for The Salt Collective and has also blogged for Living Lutheran, ShePreaches Magazine, Believe Out Loud, Biologos, Caf‚, The Mudroom, and Thirty Seconds or Less.