Yo, what's up? Welcome to this bonus episode of Pints with Aquinas.

It's Black Friday,

which I didn't know what that was in Australia until we started watching segments on the news of Americans trampling over other Americans

to buy some piece of plastic crap that they'd no longer care about five months later.

And I thought, wow, that's America. One day I want to live there.

But then I met my wife and I'm like, wow, you made up for days of our lives.

Kmart and Black Friday. Anyway, so look, we can love bad things.

We can love ugly things. We can pursue things that don't matter.

But really as Christians, we want to love what is beautiful and pursue it as beautiful.

And that's exactly what Jimmy and I speak about today.

Before we jump into today's episode, I want to say two things that are really cool.

Number one, I've edited a book called Advent with Aquinas.

Now, this is a book where I've basically mined into the works of Thomas Aquinas

and have taken out little reflections on the incarnation and birth of Jesus Christ.

How do you get this book? Well, you can't buy it, but you can both read it, download the e-book.

It's a really cool e-book, not just a PDF and e-book with a clickable table of contents.

And also an audiobook, which I've recorded for you.

If you're a Patreon member,

so if you want a bite-sized morsel of Aquinas every day, this Advent, Advent's coming up.

If you're a patron, there you go. It's free. You're welcome.

If you're not, feel free to go to Patreon.com slash madfraad.

Patreon.com slash madfraad.

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