Christmas Traditions with Steve Cuss and Clarissa Moll

The Russell Moore Show

Russell Moore

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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What does the phrase “6 white boomers” have to do with Christmas? Watch the video of this episode on YouTube here. Join us for a special Christmas episode as Russell joins the Being Human Podcast’s Steve Cuss and The Bulletin podcast’s Clarissa Moll to talk about what Christmas looks like in their own worlds. They discuss when they officially start listening to Christmas music, their favorite Christmas memories, nativity story characters that are meaningful to them, and what “Wombat Divine” means for Australians at Christmas (it may not be what you think). Keep up with Russell: Sign up for the weekly newsletter where Russell shares thoughtful takes on big questions, offers a Christian perspective on life, and recommends books and music he's enjoying. Submit a question for the show at questions@russellmoore.com Subscribe to the Christianity Today Magazine: Special offer for listeners of The Russell Moore Show: Click here for 25% off a subscription. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.6	You're listening to The Russell Moore Show, where we look for signposts in a strange time
0:36.4	by standing fast to what really matters.
0:39.9	Kingdom over culture wars, truth over tribalism, pilgrimage over partisanship, sanity over cynicism,
0:46.9	witness over winning, and Christ over everything.
0:49.3	Today we have a conversation to do just that.
1:00.6	Hey, listener, this Russell Moore.
1:07.0	I don't know if you have as difficult a time as I do thinking of Christmas presents.
1:11.7	And it's even more difficult when I'm trying to find a Christmas present for you out there on the other end of this microphone. So here's what we came up with. We joined together three of the
1:18.4	voices across the Christianity Today podcasts to get in on the same conversation to talk about
1:25.4	the Christmas season. I joined Steve Cuss, who hosts the podcast
1:30.2	Being Human, along with Clarissa Mall, our show's executive producer and the moderator of the
1:36.1	bulletin, to talk about our favorite things and some of our least favorite things about this
1:42.7	time of year. Movies, memories, traditions.
1:47.4	I learned a lot about Australian Christmases.
1:52.5	You will want to hear about the six white boomers, which wasn't what I thought it was.
1:57.8	And also, Wombat Divine.
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