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No Creche in Our Lives

Many of us have found our sensitivities insulted and our convictions offended as court rulings removed the creches from the lawns of our city halls. It's far easier to object to that swipe of secularism than to realize that for years many of us have been living through the Christmas season with, figuratively, no creche on the front lawn of our lives. Caught up in the swirl and storm of the holiday, who of us has taken the time to proclaim Jesus as the reason for the season?

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