From NPR.

A Dallas church is asking people to consider what it might look like if Jesus were born today with an unusual nativity — silhouettes of Mary and Joseph are surrounded by chain-link fencing topped with razor wire in front of Oak Lawn United Methodist Church. The manger is an old tire. Two burn bins and a shopping cart flank the scene.

Rev. Rachel Griffin-Allison says the arrangement reflects the lives of multiple people on the margins like immigrants, refugees and the unhoused. For her, the Christmas story is one of God choosing vulnerability over power, and she hopes the nativity expands viewers’ ideas of who is holy.