Christmas MythBusters

Lisa Harper's Back Porch Theology

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Talk Radio, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this merry-and-brightly honest episode of Back Porch Theology, Allison Allen, Lisa Harper, and Doc H swap stories from their Christmas tour aka their very first bus tour, complete with equal parts joy, Jesus, and questionable sleep schedules. They unpack a few favorite Christmas myths ~ including the real story behind Santa ~ and trace them back to the faith-filled roots of Saint Nicholas, the wise men, and other traditions woven through the season. Grab something warm to sip, ignore the Christmas to-do list for a minute, and pull up a chair, there’s room for you on the porch.

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0:00.0	The whole tradition of gift giving and gift receiving actually goes back to those kings,
0:07.2	wise men, kinging Jesus, acknowledging his kingship, bringing him gifts.
0:13.2	And so yeah, we've reversed the order, but as Dr. Howard already said, St. Nicholas gave
0:18.6	the children gifts, but it was under the umbrella of celebrating
0:23.5	Jesus as king, and it was to promote generosity. And so it's not about spending a ton of money,
0:28.9	but the gifts actually go all the way back to Christian theology. That is not a modern,
0:35.5	materialistic tradition.
0:38.3	And I said she's asking if you know Jeebus.
0:41.3	That's who she calls Jeebis.
0:43.3	And it was the sweetest interaction because this Santa,
0:47.3	he just, he did like a genuine ho-ho-ho.
0:50.3	He started to laugh.
0:52.3	And he said, oh, honey, I do know Jebus. He is my best friend. He said, Jesus, and he goes on to share with Missy now, he has a relationship with Jesus. And after he takes his picture, Santa's teary, Missy now is like, okay, she doesn't love him. Right, right. But she's like, you'll pass, you'll do, you'll do, pig.
1:13.0	And she walks away, and he said, that is the first time in all my years posing a Santa
1:17.9	that a child has evangelized to me.
1:28.9	Access More Hey, hey, backportchers.
1:32.7	It's Allison Allen, the 5'15 spiritual wing woman to Lisa Harper for Bagporge Theology.
1:37.2	And today, Lisa, I'm so excited because we have Doc H sitting in the entire episode.
1:42.1	And if y'all could see us, we are not YouTubeing this episode, really, because we love you. And why? We love back porks you so much because we are in the middle of our Christmas tour, our back porch theology Christmas tour. Thinking about Christmas. Thinking about Christmas. We have all just rolled off a bus. And we look like it, baby. We look like we've been hit by bus. Now, let's rewind the clock for a second. I just want to take our wonderful friends on a bit of a journey that we took last night at about 1.30 a.m. And we were aware, tell us. Oh, gosh. Buckees, baby. We live buckies. Yeah, it was so much fun, you know.
2:17.5	They were afraid to see us coming.
2:18.1	We had our first night.
2:20.0	We were rolling through four cities on this Backport's Theology Christmas tour,
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