Rethinking Christmas
Poems for Advent and Christmas
- Arts & Literature
- Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2020
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Publisher's Description
In the poems that appear here imagination plays a significant role. We do not know exactly what people expect or anticipate at Advent, but we know it can be radically different, depending on one's situation in life: the poor, the homeless, those enveloped in war, the wealthy, the desperately ill or injured. What one awaits does not change the nature of Christ's coming, but it greatly influences how Christ is received. One thing is quite clear: it is the love of God that descends to earth in this child, a child of peace and goodwill. If one is not awaiting these things, one's celebration may be well-meaning but very wrong-headed. These poems imagine what Advent and Christmas are not and what they might be. How might they be seen through the eyes of the poor and marginalized? How might they be viewed by a business concern? How are they misunderstood? What does Christmas mean, when a bell rings on Christmas Day, and a church building has been destroyed and all that remains is the bell tower?
Endorsements (3)
“This poetry has an incarnational quality: great Truth living among us in everyday vocabulary. Like any strong medicine, these verses are perhaps best read in small doses, but be sure to take the whole prescription. Be prepared; there is no place to hide. Christmas will never be the same.”
“S T Kimbrough’s Rethinking Christmas considers afresh the annual celebration of God’s coming into the world as a poor child who brings peace and reconciliation to a suffering humanity. Kimbrough uses poetry to represent different voices in various contexts to indicate why and to which purpose Jesus was born into a wounded world. Every poem relates to a revealing biblical sentence and is capable to imagine the mystery of God’s surprising coming to us.”
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