649: The Christmas Story Facts & Fiction with Nijay Gupta

The Holy Post

Phil Vischer

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🗓️ 25 December 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Merry Christmas! In celebrity conversion news, Denzel Washington got baptized at his church in Harlem just days before his 70th birthday and became a licensed minister, and New York Times columnist, David Brooks, has written about his surprising journey from agnosticism to Christianity. What do these stories tell us about our culture’s ongoing hunger for God? On the other side, David French explains why some Christians now think cruelty is acceptable. New Testament scholar, Nijay Gupta, is back to talk about what the Gospels actually say about Jesus’ birth, and what our Christmas pageants get right and very wrong about the story. Also this week—an airport in New Zealand bans hugs longer than three minutes

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Links Mentioned in the News Segment

Is this airport’s 3-minute limit on goodbye hugs ‘inhumane’? https://www.euronews.com/travel/2024/10/22/max-hug-time-three-minutes-new-zealand-airport-goes-viral-for-limiting-goodbyes#:~:text=Three%20minutes%20was%20%22plenty%20of,and%20serotonin%2C%20De%20Bono%20said

Denzel Washington Gets Baptized and Becomes a Minister During Live Streamed Ceremony: 'It Took a While but I'm Here' https://people.com/denzel-washington-gets-baptized-and-becomes-minister-during-live-streamed-ceremony-8765639

Opinion | The Shock of Faith: It’s Nothing Like I Thought It Would Be https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/opinion/faith-god-christianity.html

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0:00.0	Merry Christmas, everyone, and welcome to the Holy Post. In Celebrity Conversion News, Denzel Washington got baptized at his church in Harlem just a few days before his 70th birthday, and he became a licensed minister.
0:13.4	And New York Times columnist David Brooks has written about his surprising journey from agnosticism to Christianity.
0:20.4	What do these stories tell us about our culture's ongoing hunger for God?
0:24.5	On the other side, David French explains why some Christians now think cruelty is acceptable.
0:30.4	Then New Testament scholar Nijey Gupta is back to talk about what the Gospels actually
0:35.1	say about Jesus' birth and what our Christmas pageants
0:38.3	get right and very wrong about the story.
0:41.8	Also this week, an airport in New Zealand bans hugs for longer than three minutes.
0:47.4	Here is episode 659.
0:50.0	Hey there, welcome back to the Holy Post podcast.
0:52.0	I'm Phil Vizger.
0:53.0	I'm here with, oh, you're probably
0:55.8	listening to this. This comes out on Christmas, right? Right, guys? Christmas. It's Christmas. Merry Christmas.
1:01.5	It's Christmas. Merry Christmas. I'm here with Sky. Jatani. What, Sky? Hi, Phil. I'm guessing everyone is
1:09.7	listening to this on Christmas morning before they
1:12.0	open their gifts. Right. This is the price. This is the whole family sit around. This is the first gift.
1:17.1	The first gift of Christmas is the Holy Post podcast. And then the second gift is your family and Jesus.
1:25.3	But the first gift is all he posed.
1:28.7	And Caitlin Chess is here from her secret military base somewhere in...
1:34.4	Secret Christmas military base.
1:36.5	Yes.
1:37.6	She's in the white Christmas room.
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