Where have all the Nativities gone?

Where have all the Nativities gone?

That’s the question I asked Tim after our annual Christmas outing.

There was a time in this country when creches, life-size and minatures, were prominently on display.

Not any more.

I couldn’t even find a Nativity for sale in the dozens of stores I visited today.

“My mother is having the same problem in North Carolina,” said one department store manager when I inquired about whether they sold any. “Have you tried the Christian bookstore yet?”

That was the one place I hadn’t tried.

But that got me to thinking about how there was a time in this nation when Nativities were a common site during the CHRISTmas season.

At schools.

At libraries.

At City Hall.

Certainly in the windows of the largest department stores.

And in the biggest malls.

Churches had them,too.

There was a time when even Hollywood found them to be sacred.