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1 day agoThe Egalitarian Vision of Nativity Scenes
The nativity persistently depicts God entering among the marginalized, asserting equality, sacred human dignity, and moral obligations toward one another.
If you need any further proof that the world has gone topsy-turvy, look no further than the theft of an icon of the baby Jesus from a nativity scene in Grand Place in the Brussels city center in late November. The nativity scene is the work of German-born artist and designer Victoria-Maria Geyer, who constructed the figures in the scene of Christ's birth not out of wood, as is traditionally done, but out of recycled textiles with faces consisting only of black and brown patchwork with no identifiable features.