The rooster jolted me awake at 3:45am. I was on a tour group led by Marlin and Sally Vis, midway…
Jared AyersMarch 11, 2020
A few nights ago, I sat down into the worn blue chair crammed into the corner of my sons’ bedroom,…
Jared AyersJanuary 15, 2020
I love having talented friends. Several weeks ago, my friend Bruce, who leads an artists’ collective I appreciate, told me…
Jared AyersDecember 18, 2019
Simeon sang one of my favorite Christmas songs. You may not think of Simeon’s Song—the Nunc Dimittis—as a chart-topping Christmas…
Jared AyersDecember 30, 2018
Mark Richard once wrote a poignant piece of first-person fiction in The New Yorker entitled “The Birds for Christmas.” In…
Jared AyersDecember 23, 2018
Irish writer Colm Toibin once authored a controversial novella about the mother of Jesus called The Testament of Mary. Around…
Jared AyersDecember 16, 2018
The first Advent calendar appeared in 1851, and featured a biblical-character-a-day to count Christian worshippers down to Christmas. It featured,…
Jared AyersDecember 9, 2018
Around the corner from the church I serve in downtown Philadelphia sits City Hall. Its stately Second-Empire architecture looms over Penn…
Jared AyersDecember 2, 2018
by Jared Ayers Jim Bratt is away today. Jared Ayers, preaching pastor at Liberti Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is our…
Jared AyersFebruary 27, 2016
