116: Substantive Stories | Making Room in Advent feat. Bette Dickinson
Happy Holidays, Substance fam! We hope you are all enjoying the holiday season and carving out time for joy and contemplation along with all the festivities that go along with it. For our last show of 2022 we wanted to take an episode and devote it to the Advent & Christmas season and to do so, we invited a guest! Bette Dickinson is an artist and author from Traverse City, Michigan and she just released a beautiful new Advent devotional from InterVarsity Press, "Making Room in Advent: 25 Devotions For a Season of Wonder."
The book begins each day's reading with a painting to stop and reflect on and invite the reader to engage in visio divina (Latin: divine seeing). We talk with Bette about her art and how engaging with it can help us in ways that a merely textual devotional may not, how the incarnation spotlights the lowly & underrepresented, the joys of slowing down during the holiday season, and more!
We hope you have had a wonderful year and we look forward to being back in your feed on New Year's Day. Merry Christmas!
Links/Resources:
Text "Justice" to 33777
Shoutouts:
The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
Celtic Benediction by J. Philip Newell
Honest Advent by Scott Erickson
