“Contents,” New Era, Dec. 1987
Departments
Feedback
The Message: Who Needs Christmas?Elder Hugh W. Pinnock
In Tune: When Love Came DownMabel Jones Gabbott and Michael F. Moody
My Family: Symbols of LoveJill Staker
First Person: Home for the HolidaysKaren Backman
Mormonisms
FYI: For Your Information
Photo of the MonthRandall Dodge
Feature Articles
What I Didn’t Get for ChristmasLisa A. Johnson
Green Stamp ChristmasTrish Kline
The Personality of the ProphetRichard Lloyd Anderson
Christmas in the Holy LandKathleen Lubeck
“Finnishing” the SeasonAnn Cannon
Almost HeavenMelvin Leavitt
Fiction and Poetry
The Christmas ProjectRon Woods
Reflections beneath the Limber PineHomer 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.)