Promise of Dawn

Published: Dec. 29, 2016, 8:22 p.m.

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Barack and Michelle Obama\\u2019s White House Christmas message acknowledges \\u201cnonbelievers\\u201d as well as Christians, Jews, and Muslims. We talk with Florida activist Preston Smith, a middle-school teacher who bravely erected FFRF\\u2019s secular displays in a Boca Raton park to counter the Christian nativity scene. His displays were repeatedly vandalized and destroyed. Then we welcome the New Year with some hopeful music, including Shirley Horn\\u2019s \\u201cEverything Must Change,\\u201d Yip Harburg\\u2019s \\u201cOver the Rainbow,\\u201d Dan Barker\\u2019s \\u201cPromise of Dawn,\\u201d and freethinker Robert Burns\\u2019s \\u201cAuld Lang Syne\\u201d performed by Scottish singer Mairi Campbell.

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