New Era

December 1987

Volume 17, Number 12

Contents

• Departments

• Feedback

• The Message: Who Needs Christmas?
  Elder Hugh W. Pinnock

• In Tune: When Love Came Down
  Mabel Jones Gabbott and Michael F. Moody

• My Family: Symbols of Love
  Jill Staker

• First Person: Home for the Holidays
  Karen Backman

• Mormonisms

• FYI: For Your Information

• Photo of the Month
  Randall Dodge

• Feature Articles

• What I Didn’t Get for Christmas
  Lisa A. Johnson

• Green Stamp Christmas
  Trish Kline

• The Personality of the Prophet
  Richard Lloyd Anderson

• Christmas in the Holy Land
  Kathleen Lubeck

• “Finnishing” the Season
  Ann Cannon

• Almost Heaven
  Melvin Leavitt

• Fiction and Poetry

• The Christmas Project
  Ron Woods

• Reflections beneath the Limber Pine
  Homer S. Ellsworth

Cover: Front: Shepherds stand in awe at the angelic announcement of the birth of the Savior. Back: Bloch’s classic painting of the adoration of the baby Jesus. (Illustrated by Del Parson/Carl Heinrich Bloch.)