Cape Cod artist creates “Lobster nativity scene”
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🗓️ 1 December 2025
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A Cape Cod artist has created what Axios calls “New England’s newest unlikely holiday sensation: the Lobster nativity scene.” Jesus is depicted as a baby lobster in a bed of seaweed inside a crab shell cradle. The stable is a lobster trap. The other figures are various versions of lobsters as well. Today’s Daily Article looks at the commercialized humor of nativity scenes in light of C. S. Lewis’s famous quote and Walter Isaacson’s new book, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written. Our Savior chose to sacrifice his “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” for us in a form far inferior to his infinite, holy self.
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| 0:59.5 | We're glad you've joined us. I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by our co-founder, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 1:08.5 | As soon as Thanksgiving is over, Christmas decorating begins at my house. |
| 1:13.6 | My wife is the expert. I'm the hired help. |
| 1:17.0 | You can know this by examining our nativity scenes. |
| 1:20.4 | One is simpler featuring the baby Jesus surrounded by adoring parents and a worshipping angel. |
| 1:26.9 | The other is more complex, with animals, |
| 1:30.0 | shepherds, and three magi. I have pointed out over the years that the wise men were not |
| 1:35.5 | present at the first Christmas, but since my theological observations have fallen annually on deaf ears, |
| 1:42.4 | I have learned to keep my objections to myself. |
| 1:45.8 | However, here's a nativity set I must protest. A Cape Cod artist has created what Axios calls, |
| 1:53.4 | quote, New England's newest unlikely holiday sensation, the lobster nativity scene, end quote. Jesus is depicted as a baby lobster in a bed of seaweed inside a crab shell cradle. |
| 2:06.6 | The stable is a lobster trap. |
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