(Subscriber-exclusive edition on Fridays) The manger scene is set up with an empty manger. All the other figures are arranged. The figurine of the baby Jesus is only placed in the manger on ...

I like the reminder of an empty manger: Advent is a time for waiting ... It’s the old nativity set, mended but still itself, now merged with memories of my own babies in Christmases past ...

Every year we set up a traditional manger scene near our ... A sheep looks at an empty manger. On the contrary, we tend to look for the Christ child in beautiful and safe places.