It's beginning to look alot like Christmas, and my featured works from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection for December are three nativity sets by African folk artists just uploaded to the Before the Marvel of this Night gallery of the Themes of Faith section. "Dino" Camordino Mustafa Jetha of Mozambique makes traditional psikelekedana carvings from soft cashew nut tree wood resembling miniature models. He offers us a Nativity scene from every day life in his Southeast African homeland where a dog walker and a mother and daughter on the way to market with chickens pass the Holy Family in a manger in a hollowed out baobob tree. Kenyan Artist Esther Kariuki works with the women in her village near the city of Kitui to turn a profit from waste banana plant fibers by weaving them into folk art objects like the manger scene in the Collection, where the "Bethlehem stable" doubles as a storage box. A second "eco-friendly" Nativity set (left) was created out of shredded soda cans by Zimbabwean refugees living in South Africa. (John Kohan)