Theology in the Raw - S2: Merry Christmas!

Episode Date: December 25, 2023

Merry Christmas from Theology in the Raw! We’re going to take a week off of podcasting and will pick it up again on January 1st. Thank you all for your love, support, encouragement, and criticism! We’ll see you in a week! Support Theology in the Raw through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theologyintheraw

Hello, friends. I just want to take a couple minutes to wish you a Merry Christmas. Theology and the Raw is going to take a week off between Christmas and New Year. We will return on January 1st, where I'm going to give a end of the year review and kind of look forward to 2024. So be on the lookout for that New Year's Day episode. But between Christmas and New Year, we're not going to have any episodes. So yeah, I don't know. Maybe stay off podcasts for a week

or you can go back and review some older episodes or go listen to another podcast. But we're going to take a week off because we very much need it. We have really enjoyed podcasting this year. I've just had, yeah. Well, I'll talk more about the last year in the year in review on January 1st, but it's been a fantastic year for Theology in Raw.

I've enjoyed getting to know quite a bit of you through Patreon and through other avenues and meeting you around the country as I go and speak different places. And I always bump into people who either follow Theology in Raw or support Theology in Raw. So that's been super exciting. During this Christmas season would encourage you and encourage myself to be on the lookout for people whose holiday season might not be all peaches and cream. I know we often talk about the holiday season, Christmas, New Year, even Thanksgiving, you know, is the time of joy and happiness and gladness and family and all this stuff. And that's true for many of us. But for

some of us, the holiday seasons are incredibly difficult. Or people maybe that don't have families, single people, or people that come from maybe broken families, or people that are just not excited to go be around their family, please do keep your eye out for those who sometimes get left between the cracks during the season. It is not an enjoyable time for some people. So if it is an enjoyable time for you and your family, please be on the lookout for those who it is not the same kind of season. So, and as always, goodness, the commercialization of Christmas is a huge challenge to Christianity. That's something that goes without saying, right? We all know that we all know that this, this time is a blend of happiness for, for many people and also stress. We're running around, we're buying stuff. We've already spent too much money on stuff and it just becomes, um, sometimes more,

uh, American than it is or Christian or Western than it is Christian. And so we'll just, uh, encourage all of us again to, to do something we all know we need to do, right? To keep our focus on the incarnation of the Son of God, a peasant born in a feeding trough in a land that was occupied by a foreign power in the midst of the slaughtering of a bunch of children in Bethlehem. I mean, if you think about the historic Christmas events, it's very sobering and it is very different than how we sometimes celebrate that event. And so, yeah, just keep your eyes and heart focused on the real meaning of this time. And yeah, it's been a joy podcasting with you all.

Thank you for listening to the podcast. I know it's been a joy podcasting with you all. Thank you for listening to the podcast. I know it's been quite a journey. There's been some interesting episodes we'll talk about on January 1st, but truly, truly from the bottom of my heart and the heart of all of us here at Theology and Raw, we wish you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and we will see you next week. This show is part of the Converge Podcast Network.