Impulses from pastor Stefan Buß: Jesus on the crumpled newspaper

A pastor once set up a nativity scene in his church. He didn’t lay the child on hay or straw, but on crumpled up newspaper. So the newborn child was not lying on the straw of the past, but in the middle of the headlines of the daily newspaper of the present. A strong sign: Anyone who puts the child in the crib in the crumpled newspaper articles of world politics is acknowledging that Jesus still has something to say to us today in the intrigue of power and politics, of war and fanaticism. He speaks to the zeitgeist and sets a standard that aims to change human coexistence