Our Hope and Expectation: Devotions for Advent & Christmas 2020-2021

by Paul Hoffman (Contributor), Michael Coffey (Contributor), Annabelle Markey (Contributor)

Our Hope and Expectation explores the Advent season and celebrates the joy of the twelve days of Christmas and the day of Epiphany. It includes daily devotions based on year B scripture readings (in the Revised Common Lectionary) for Sundays and festival days between the first Sunday of Advent (November 29, 2020) and Epiphany (January 6, 2021). In addition to devotions, the book offers household blessings and prayers to enrich your preparations and celebrations.

96 pages, Paperback

Published July 1, 2020

About the author

Paul Hoffman (born 1956) is a prominent author and host of the PBS television series Great Minds of Science. He was president and editor in chief of Discover, in a ten-year tenure with that magazine, and served as president and publisher of Encyclopaedia Britannica before returning full-time to writing and consulting work.

He lives in Woodstock, New York. Author of at least ten books, he has appeared on CBS This Morning and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer as a correspondent. Hoffman is also a puzzlemaster using the pseudonym Dr. Crypton. He designed the puzzle in the 1984 book Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse. He also designed the treasure map in the 1984 film, Romancing the Stone, starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito.

Hoffman holds a B.A. degree summa cum laude from Harvard. He is the winner of the first National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

My husband and I usually pick up the devotionals from church, but rarely remember to keep up with them. This was the first time we actually read it all the way through! It was a great tradition to start with our son. He loves the routine of getting ready for bed and then reading our "amen book" before sleep. This advent, Christmas, and epiphany season have been so different from what we've ever experienced, but having this book to help ground us in what it's really about was a joy.

[Jim Auditor]

Hopes and expectations are always too exaggerated. It never comes true if nothing is done. It's like reading reviews, for example, like here, and just memorizing useful information.