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Under the expert direction of Voncille Ross, “Black Nativity” proves to be as joyous and stirring as ever in the current production by the Roxbury-based National Center of Afro-American Artists at the Emerson Paramount Center.

This year, it is 800 years since St Francis of Assisi set up a live Nativity scene in a cave in the Italian village of Greccio. There were live animals and a hay-filled manger to help people bring to mind the events described in the Gospels.

"Journey to Bethlehem" prioritizes entertainment value over theological accuracy and struggles to balance its contemporary take with the essence of the greatest biblical story ever told. 

Chapter 7 of my book (available for free online), Inspired!: 191 Supposed Biblical Contradictions Resolved. See the Introduction and ch. 1: How Do Ch. 7 of Dave Armstrong’s book, “Inspired!”: in which he examines 191 examples of alleged biblical contradictions & disproves all of these patently false claims.

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Historic Kirtland’s ‘Behold, the Savior of the World’ boasts about 400 Nativities from round the globe

I was sitting on a hillside in Israel when I first believed God loved me.  I spent a good portion of my early life in church. My mother tells me I

Befana is usually depicted as a witch flying on a broomstick, wearing a black shawl and covered in soot because she enters children's homes through the chimney.

When he was Cardinal Albino Luciani, the future Pope John Paul I wrote letters to figures from history and literature, including one to Charles Dickens.

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