S T Kimbrough, Jr., holds a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary
and is currently a Research Fellow of the Center for Studies in the
Wesleyan Tradition of Duke Divinity School. He is author of the
following books by Wipf and Stock: The Lyrical Theology of Charles
Wesley; Radical Grace: Justice for the Poor and Marginalized;
Participation in the Divine Nature in the Writings of Charles
Wesley; May She Have a Word with You? Women as Models of How to
Live in the Poems of Charles Wesley; and four books of poetry: Why
Should a Child Be Born? Poems for Peace and Justice in the Middle
East; Of Death and Grief: Poems for Healing and Renewal; A Seagull
Lunch and Other Nature Poems (Save Our Planet); and Snowbound:
Poems for Winter Days.
"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."
--Belton Joyner, Instructor in Wesleyan Heritage, Duke Course of
Study School
"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."
--Gerhard Sauter, Professor Emeritus of Systematic and Ecumenical
Theology, University of Bonn, Germany
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