At The Manger
Drama And Worship For Christmas Eve
Dennis M. Maurer

Six characters share their innermost thoughts about the nativity in a series of brief soliloquies that comes complete with an order of service for your worship planning. Characters are Caesar, Mary, Joseph, an angel, a shepherd, and God. This adaptable piece can be performed as elaborately or as sparsely as you wish -- no costumes or setting are required other than a simple manger.

Dennis M. Maurer is a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He has served parishes in Ohio, and with his family served as a missionary in Papua New Guinea, where he taught Homiletics and Bible at Sr. Flierl Seminary. Pastor Maurer earned degrees from Capital University and Lutheran Theological Seminary (Columbus, Ohio), and received his Ph.D. from the University of St. Andrews (Scotland) in Gnostic and Apocalyptic studies. He is currently an Assistant to the Bishop of the ELCA's Northwestern Ohio Synod.