Marlita Hill

Honest Advent

Bible Studies & Devotionals

“As a follower of Jesus who has spent the majority of my professional life (thirty years) working alongside my Jesus-following, Jewish wife within very dark, hostile Islamic regimes, we have celebrated many Christmas/Hanukkah seasons hidden away with curtains drawn and doors locked, lighting candles and reading the Scriptures. If Honest Advent had been available then, I would have handed out the book to the Muslim community community and walked through the season with them. What a beautiful, timely work of art! JAMIE AND DONNA WINSHIP, cofounders, Identity Exchange With the specific audacity and humility of an artist, Scott Erickson’s captivating words and images flip, spin, and reconsider the reality of God-with-Us and the transformative notion of that presence in, with, and through our humanity. He invites us to look afresh and find newness and wonder in the Advent story through the female body—not through its typical maligning but as a way God chose to be with us.”