Advent for Every Body: An Advent Calendar Podcast

This Advent, join us as we consider all the ways in which human bodies have and continue to bear God in our world with Advent for Every Body, a daily Advent Calendar podcast. How is our understanding of God deepened and nourished in one another – in bodies that have been held up for generations as inappropriate, shameful, or incomplete? Listen below or on the podcast feed, or click a link below to listen wherever you go by subscribing to on your favorite podcast app.

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Introduction: Shana McCauley & Nathan LeRud

Trinity Dean Nathan LeRud and Canon for Cathedral Life Shana McCauley introduce this year's Advent podcast: Advent for Every Body.

Day 1: Joanna Harader | November 27

"The Word becomes flesh only through the flesh and blood of women."

Day 2: Allison Sandlin Liles | November 28

"Anxiety is dreadful expectation – but hope is expectant desire."

Day 3: Heidi Haverkamp | November 29

"Our bodies are portals to the holy."

Day 4: Matthew Lawrence & Beverly Ffolkes-Bryant | November 30

"You're too busy to listen to this podcast."

Day 5: Mary Curlew | December 1

"Through Mary, the trauma of hunger, brutality, and inequity are met with mercy."

Day 6: Hope Benko | December 2

"I can't claim to have really understood my own body until my child was born."

Day 7: Michael Ellick | December 3

"Was Mary a mother nature goddess, or was she just a girl from Nazareth?"

Day 8: Elizabeth Schroeder | December 4

"Birth is purely physical and all miraculous."

Day 9: Karen Tiegs | December 5

"Anyone with cancer knows the challenge of loving our bodies when it seems like our bodies have turned against us."

Day 10: Alicia Johnson | December 6

"Did Mary's heartbreak feel like mine?"

Day 11: Joanne Gallardo | December 7

"I have been at war with my body since I was young."

Day 12: Kerlin Richter | December 8

""Your body is a miracle so deep that God herself longed to be in a body like yours."

Day 13: Faith Curammeng | December 9

"We who are on the trails partake in our own church."

Day 14: Christopher Bell | December 10

"We're all on the verge of death. The question is: how do you want to live?"

Day 15: Chris Arnold | December 11

"Even at rest, your heart goes on beating."

Day 16: Chanta Bhan | December 12

"Jesus' unpartnered body empowers those who are single.&