There is a piece of Christmas trivia that gets passed around every December like

fruitcake nobody actually ordered.

It sounds profound, it feels meaningful, and it's almost certainly not true.

We're going to dig into a beloved holiday song, a persistent myth about hidden Christian meaning,

and what it all reveals about the human brain's desperate hunger-defined patterns,

even when those patterns don't exist.

Along the way, we'll discover something uncomfortable about ourselves and our faith, and

maybe learn how to tell the difference between genuine divine revolution and the stories

we tell ourselves.

We'll also talk about grill cheese sandwiches, ghost voices, and why someone paid $28,000

for a decade-old sandwich.

Trust me, it all connects.

Hello, Weirdos, I'm Pastor Darren.

Welcome to the Church of the Undead. Here in the Church

of the Undead, I step away from being the host of weird darkness and step into the clothes

of a reverend. I still share things that are dark, strange, or macab, diving into the paranormal,

true crime, monsters, and more, but I try to find a biblical take on the subject matter.

I have to say, it is a fun challenge.

If you're a weirdo family member from my Weird Darkness podcast, or a weirdo in Christ from

this one, welcome to the Church of the Undead.

And I use the word Undead, because, as Romans 6, verse 11 says, in the same way, count yourselves dead to sin,

but alive to God in Christ Jesus. And as Ephesians 2 states, even when we were dead in our

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