Christmas Eve: Journey of the Magi

Politics By Faith w/Mike Slater

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Christianity, News, Religion & Spirituality, Politics

4.9 • 593 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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A poetry reading on this Christmas Eve, from the great T.S. Eliot. He starts by quoting a Christmas sermon from 1622 and then ends with a line I hope to think of every day this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.5	Welcome to Politics by Faith, a very special Christmas Eve edition, taking a time out from preparing Christmas
0:39.6	Eve and a little bit of prep on Christmas Day's feast for a quick poetry reading. T.S.
0:47.8	Eliot became a Christian when he was 38 years old. There's a lot to share there in his journey as well, but this poem of his
0:56.1	was his proclamation of becoming a Christian. It's called The Journey of the Magi. He wrote it in
1:05.6	1927. It starts off with a quote. A cold cut three stanzas.
1:12.6	A cold coming we had of it.
1:14.9	Just the worst time of the year for a journey.
1:17.5	Such a long journey.
1:19.1	The ways deep and the weather sharp.
1:21.3	The very dead of winter.
1:24.0	That quote is a paraphrase of a Christmas sermon that was given in 1622 by Lancelot Andrews.
1:32.1	How about that for a name?
1:33.0	Lancelot Andrews.
1:34.8	The original line is, so this is the preacher speaking of the Magi.
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