In this challenging series of Advent meditations, David Rhodes uses stories and experiences from the streets of the inner city to help us rediscover the startling message of the Gospel. In company with a strange assortment of fellow travellers, including three not very wise men, a small frog, homeless people from our own streets and an ugly duckling, we make a journey with a difference to discover the meaning of Christ’s birth for today.

Sometimes humorous, often moving, the book makes adventurous reading. If we run the risk of loving, we soon learn the meaning of vulnerability. Mary knew from the beginning that life with the Christ-child was not going to be easy. Perhaps we should expect it to be no less challenging to live as Christ’s disciples today.
 

Lisa Friend, who worked as a prostitute before coming to faith, writes:

‘How can you believe you are worth anything if you have been told all your life that you are less than nothing?

‘David Rhodes writes about us, the outcasts. He communicates the radical challenge of God’s love to the Church and Christians everywhere.’