Readings for Advent and Christmas

Home for Christmas

Elizabeth Goudge, Ger Koopman and Ernst Wiechert

Home for Christmas includes tales by some of the world’s most beloved children’s authors – Selma Lagerlöf, Ruth Sawyer, Elizabeth Goudge, and Pearl Buck – as well as little-known European stories not available in English anywhere else. Read More

Watch for the Light

Dorothy Day, C. S. Lewis, Oscar Romero, Philip Yancey, Eberhard Arnold, Johann Christoph Arnold, J. Heinrich Arnold, Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Alfred Delp, Søren Kierkegaard, Annie Dillard, Kathleen Norris and others

Selections from the world’s greatest spiritual writers provide inspiration for Advent and Christmas. Read More

When the Time Was Fulfilled

Alfred Delp, Eberhard Arnold and Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

The meditations in this collection witness to the fact that the birth of Jesus is more than history – it is a reality – but only for those who feel their need and are personally ready to come to the manger. Read More

The Shepherd's Pipe

Georg Johannes Gick, Trans. Jere Brunner

This unpretentious yet hauntingly mystical cycle of poems, now set to music, revolves around the stable on Christmas Night. The commonplace things participate in the miraculous birth, as do the everyday people who come to worship. Read the poems... Read More

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