For the Time Being: Telling the Christmas Story in Our Own Day

Together with the Reverend Allen Pruitt, explore W.H. Auden’s For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio, a modern poetic re-telling of the Nativity, shaped by the questions and longings of his own era. We’ll listen for how the poem invites us to encounter the Incarnation not as a distant event, but as a living truth that continues to unfold in the present.

Together, we’ll ask: What does it mean to receive the Christ child in our time? How might we tell the story of Christmas in ways that are honest, faithful, and alive to the hopes and fears of the present?