nativity
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The question, as usual, is whether people are too busy celebrating the story of the nativity to make room at the inn.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 24, 2025
Geyer, who identifies as a practising Catholic, insisted that the idea of breaking with tradition was "far from our minds" when fashioning the nativity.
From Barron's • Dec. 2, 2025
"I was seeing nativity and Christmas scenes everywhere in this town. And all the trees had turned into plastic. The hallucinations were phenomenal, crazy," she said.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2025
Instead of having a candy-filled calendar, some Latino families will create an extended nativity scene at the beginning of Advent with the wise men placed far away in the room, González-Andrieu said.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2024
The surge in carol composition around this time, notably in northern Europe, was partly inspired by an earlier Italian tradition of tuneful sacred songs welcoming the Christ-child’s nativity.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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