Bonus: Thoughts on Meaning

12/15/19 • 28 min

This is a bonus episode in which I think aloud about stories, humanity, the meaning of life, what parents get out of the Santa myth, Christmas and the solstice.

For more about the Solstice, come back Thursday (or visit Patreon on Tuesday if you're a patron), because I talk about that a little in the upcoming episode, "The Christmas Story"

I also read a favorite passage from Terry Pratchett's Hogfather about humans and fantasy in this episode.

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This is a bonus episode in which I think aloud about stories, humanity, the meaning of life, what parents get out of the Santa myth, Christmas and the solstice.

For more about the Solstice, come back Thursday (or visit Patreon on Tuesday if you're a patron), because I talk about that a little in the upcoming episode, "The Christmas Story"

I also read a favorite passage from Terry Pratchett's Hogfather about humans and fantasy in this episode.

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12 - The Birth of John the Baptist

Three of 4 gospels start with not Jesus, but John the Baptist, a historical figure with a significant following and large reputation in his era - he shows up in the Jesus legends to lend credibility to them.

Luke's gospel begins with the myth of John's birth, told simultaneously with the story of Jesus' birth - two babies whose births were promised to change the world.

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13 - The Christmas Story

This episode pulls from two gospels to tell the story of the birth of Jesus.
In John’s Gospel, Jesus had to out-miracle even the greatest prophets, and the gospel writer Luke was not to be outdone. Jesus’s birth could be nothing less than the most impressive and surprising of all the miracle babies in the canon. Join us this week for the most miraculous baby covered in this miracle-baby mini-series.

Also included, a few thoughts about the winter solstice and how my family celebrates it and what it means to me

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