TABLE OF CONTENTS

Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt: Action in Waiting

Sylvia Plath: Black Rook in Rainy Weather

J. B. Phillips: The Dangers of Advent

Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster: Meditation

Henri Nouwen: Waiting for God

Bernard of Clairvaux: In Defense of Humility

Kathleen Norris: Annunciation

Meister Eckhart: Where God Enters

St. Thomas Aquinas / Karl Rahner: The Divine Dawning

Isaac Penington: Concerning the Light

Madeleine L'Engle: A Sky Full of Children

Alfred Delp: The Shaking Reality of Advent

Loretta Ross-Gotta: To be Virgin

William Stringfellow: The Penitential Season

J. Heinrich Arnold / Edith Stein: From the Stable to the Cross

Philip Britts: Yielding to God

Jane Kenyon: Mosaic of the Nativity

John Howard Yoder: The Original Revolution

Emmy Arnold: Christmas Joy

Karl Barth: To Believe

Óscar Romero / William Willimon: The God We Hardly Knew

Johann Christoph Arnold: Be Not Afraid

Gail Godwin: Genealogy and Grace

Leonardo Boff: The Man Who Is God

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Evelyn Underhill: The Light of the World

Dorothy Day: Room for Christ

Brennan Manning: Shipwrecked at the Stable

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Coming of Jesus in Our Midst

Romano Guardini: The Holy Mother

Annie Dillard: Bethlehem

Martin Luther: To You Christ is Born

St. John Chrysostom: The Mystery

Giovanni Papini: Ox and Ass

Dorothee Soelle: The Christmas Gospel

C. S. Lewis: The Grand Miracle

Gustavo Gutiérrez: Christ's History, and Ours

Philip Yancey: The Visited Planet

Jane Tyson Clement / Thomas Merton: The Time of No Room

Eberhard Arnold: When the Time Was Fulfilled

Søren Kierkegaard: Only a Rumor

Ernesto Cardinal: The Wise Men

T. S. Eliot: The Journey of the Magi

John Donne: The Showing Forth of Christ

Gian Carlo Menotti: Love Alone

Jürgen Moltmann: The Disarming Child