moving. It is so easy to view that hodgepodge of shepherds, Magi, animals, new parents, angels, and the infant in the middle of it all and not bat an eye at the spectacle of all those wildly diverse people and creatures dwelling under one little roof. But then the season ends, and by the time Epiphany rolls around the manger scenes have been packed away for another year. Epiphany, however, returns us to the reality of the church as a place likewise filled with a motley hodgepodge of all kinds of