The joy and creativity with which Manfred Moll succeeded in conveying the Christmas message to up to 3,000 people in the church Zum Guten Hirten in Berlin Friedenau on Christmas Eve in a way that never ceases to surprise, is demonstrated by this selection of sermons from the past three decades. The themes of faith, hope and love are always at issue, but love is undoubtedly the theme of life and thus the real credo of the Christian minor. It is not a love addicted to harmony, not one that is based on looking away or naivety. No, Moll is a precise and analytical observer who, even at Christmas, gives free rein to his anger over laziness of thought and indifference towards those in need and the excluded. Most touching, however, is his warm, empathetic view of everything human, underpinned by the Christmas spirit on Christmas Eve. Dressed in a clear, lively language, in which it can be felt that every word has been carefully chosen. This book has been translated with Artificial Intelligence.

Manfred Moll, born in 1951, studied theology, history of religion, Jewish studies and philosophy; worked as a teacher of religion in Berlin and was ordained a pastor in 1985. After a first volume of poetry in 1984, he is represented with poems in anthologies and regularly in PoeseialbumNeu. His sermons are also not least lyrical texts.