That’s why we’re showing Santa bowing the knee to baby Jesus. We all need to bow the knee.” The nativity scene also featured standards like the snow-covered manger, Mary, Joseph, a shepherd ...

Visit Santa at the store or wherever, ask for a boatload of gifts that he’ll have to suck in his amply belly to descend the chimney with, and say a prayer to Baby Jesus on every night of Advent.

McCausland kept the Jesus-and-Santa story tradition for 14 years at Holy Cross Episcopal Church. Children would carry the figures to the creche display and sit for McCausland’s story, ...