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| Birmingham -- 'Tis the season for gift-giving, mall-juggling, food-making and - whew! - family-seeing... It's a busy time, these holidays - or holy days as they were once known. But material goods aside, Christians got down to the basics of what's being observed: a birthday. Thousands walked through and witnessed scenes of humility, deliverance and peace... and a camel or donkey or two. At Hoover's Briarwood Presbyterian Church, the nativity stage was a parking lot, the actors - members, the scenes - of Jesus's birth, life and resurrection. Steve Chiotakis brings you this audio postcard of the people who put it together - and those who took the time, a few minutes from shopping or working, to step inside a world that's completely different yet enthusiastically performed.