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Violent hostilities persist in many nations
this Christmas, in Iraq and in the Middle East, most notably for many
in the U.S. Natural disasters—tsunamis, hurricanes and
earthquakes—brought calamity across the globe this year. Amid such
devastation, where do we find the message of the season for our
celebrations?
Consider one of these books that are either about Christmas in disastrous times or were written during such times.
Especially
poignant for Lutherans is a collection of poems by Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
the German pastor whose anti-Hitler activities resulted in his 1945
execution, Christmas with Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Victoria J. Barnet and Wayne Whitson Floyd Jr., eds.; Augsburg Books,
2005). He wrote some of the reflections amid the life-or-death stress
of teaching and preaching in secret, and defying the Nazis; others were
written from prison.
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