12 Days of Christmas: Robin Parry – A Universalist Christmas (NS03)

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🗓️ 14 December 2014

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Robin Parry is an evangelical, but unlike most evangelicals he doesn't believe that Hell and death is the end of the story for most of humanity. Instead, he believes the Bible teaches that we will all ultimately be reconciled to God and enjoy eternity...

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0:00.0	Nomad Spirituality
0:15.2	On the third day of Christmas
0:18.3	Nomad gave to me
0:20.7	A Christmas reflection by Robin Perry.
0:24.9	Very good, Tim. See how I'd... You did that this time, yeah, that's good. That's spontaneous.
0:29.5	No rehearsals, just... Yeah. Yeah, you could be joining the choir.
0:34.2	Yeah, I'm not just good at editing audio and stuff. I can... You can sing.
0:38.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:39.2	What's your favourite part of Christmas,
0:41.5	Ordo, would you say?
0:43.7	Ah, you've taken me by surprise
0:46.4	of asking you that question.
0:47.6	You just threw that out of it, is you?
0:50.9	There's just something very special about Christmas Day, I think.
0:54.2	There is a special feeling about it, actually.
0:56.8	But don't you find that special feeling, a big, leads to a big letdown?
1:00.5	Because I think that special feeling that I get around Christmas is a sentimental feeling for my childhood.
1:05.6	And then when Christmas actually arrives, I remember that it's just eating watching TV.
1:09.6	No, I always feel that there's something
1:11.1	about Christmas Day that I feel very different to any other day of the year. And it's not just
1:17.0	because we've just opened presents and stuff. I like the whole sitting around and having a meal
1:21.8	together and family and then just completely relaxing in the afternoon, vegging completely.
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