How the Adult Angels Wanted to Cancel Christmas

A collection of short stories about the meaning of Christmas today. Every year we approach the miracle and the mystery of Christmas: God became human for us. This is what we celebrate, even if we sometimes forget it in the stress and hectic of the advent season. But how do we really prepare for Christmas? These stories for children and adults talk about stars and angels and miracles, and about us. Perhaps they are just a stories. But perhaps the one or the other thing happened just that way.

Rev. Dr. Axel Schwaigert, born 1968, is the founding pastor of Salz der Erde Metropolitan Community Church in Stuttgart, Germany. He Doctor of Ministry degree at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA. He has been a member of the MCC Theologies Team from its beginning in 2006 and served as a member of the Commission on the MCC Statement of Faith. He received his Diplom in Evangelisch Theologie (Diploma in Protestant Theology) from the School of Theological Studies at Tubingen (Germany) and studied interreligious dialogue at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. He began his pastoral training in 1998 at MCC Bournemouth. After his ordination in 2000 he launched the new Salz der Erde MCC Stuttgart during Gay Pride. In his secular life, Rev. Schwaigert works as a funeral director. He loves singing, dancing, and acting on stage in musicals, which he sometimes dares at a community theater of the US Forces in Stuttgart.