Zwischen Stern und Stall

Tina Willms invites the reader to take a look at what seems familiar: stories, figures, symbols, songs, and themes of the Advent season are encountered in new and unusual ways. In poetic language and powerful imagery, devotions, poems, and prayers encourage one to find stillness, to open up, to sense longing, to sharpen one’s perception, and to examine old patterns.

Texts that inspire and question, enchant and ground, affirm and sometimes provoke: Perhaps a God who is born as a human in a stable can be found today more in unusual places than in familiar ones, more in the question than in the answer, more in the irritation than in the confirmation.