Tracks in the Straw: Tales Spun from the Manger

In a memorable Christmas book full of surprises and wonder, Loder offers 15 nativity stories and fables that bring forth an amazing set of characters, animals, and unexpected visitors who witness, in one way or another, the life-changing mystery of the nativity. Arranged into 24 readings for optional Advent use.

Ted Loder served for almost thirty-eight years as senior minister of First United Methodist Church of Germantown, Pennsylvania. He marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s, opened his church as a Public Sanctuary Church, and cofounded a job-training program for high school dropouts, a nonprofit housing renovation corporation, and an ecumenical consortium to rehabilitate abandoned houses. A graduate of Yale Divinity School with an honorary doctorate from Willamette University, Dr. Loder also served on the National Advisory Board of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA.