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Dec 10, 2020Liked by Diana Butler Bass

I love the children's book, The Christmas Menorahs, based on a similar action in Billings, Montana but with a Jewish family and their menorah. Also, when my daughter was 3 we went to an exhibit of creches and she said, "People want Jesus to look like them," and after that I, too, started collecting creches where baby Jesus looked like them.

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It is so wonderful that the radiant white light that carries the Spirit of Love contains all the colors of the rainbow!

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Dec 10, 2020Liked by Diana Butler Bass

One of my favorite Christmas songs is Some Children See Him, by Alfred Burt. Tennessee Ernie Ford's recording pf it is my favorite.

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Dec 10, 2020Liked by Diana Butler Bass

A wonderful article. I’ve been disturbed by “white” Jesus for so long. I’m white but seeing icons of Middle Eastern Jesus fills me with joy and truth. Hurrah for Black Santa’s and Brown Jesus

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Thanks for sharing this story with us, Diana.

I suspect you know the story from Billings, MT, December, 1993. If you don't, it's told beautifully in music (see https://youtu.be/gFgf-zW3Ufc), in film (see https://youtu.be/rDH4gKDw_fo), and in great detail in the New York Times (see https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/03/magazine/their-finest-minute.html)

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Dec 10, 2020Liked by Diana Butler Bass

I have been to the Dominican Republic several times visiting a ministry partner. The crèche figures they make have no facial features. To make the point that the people who lived on that island pre-1492 were completely wiped out. So you can envision any kind of face you want. It’s a wonderful custom

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: ( You did not include a link to where I could order my own Black Santa! Shopping for inflatable Santas here in Canada, the results are all white Santa.

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