Continuing a series of Advent reflections with a look at the readings for the Second Sunday of the season.

"come, slice through lying words, unfurl, / make dizzy, whirl for our perplexed, imperilled, proud, / proud world . . ."

Synodal conversation in the Spirit must allow for the prayerful critical thinking of the people of God, not as their baptismal right but as their very responsibility in Christ.