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Believe it or not, this is Christmas week in just 48 hours from when we're releasing

this podcast, even in a year that felt like it was always winter and could never be at Christmas.

But 2020 is the kind of year where we need a little Christmas right this very

minute. Candles in the window and click to listen scripts in the spent. And so this week on the show,

we are talking to the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Christmas, a 656 page book, all about the world's

biggest holiday that I've been looking forward to for years,

ever since Tim told me he was working on it.

That's kind of a semi-secret project.

The book is divided into eight sections, history, theology, worshiping communities, the nativity,

a whole section of different aspects of the nativity scene and the characters that they're in.

For additions, art stuff them around the world, stuff on the relationship between church and state at Christmas time, society.

We're not going to talk about every single one of the 45 articles that are in this Oxford Handbook of Christmas.

But we are going to nerd out about the book, about this holiday.

We're going to have a special Christmas episode.

You are listening to Quick to Listen, where we go beyond hashtags and hot takes to discuss

a major cultural event.

I'm Morgan Lee, Global Media Manager at Christianity Today.

And I am Ted Olson. I'm editorial director at Christianity today.

Okay, Ted, I have been working with Anglicans for as long as I can remember, and they always chied me for saying Merry Christmas before Christmas.

So it's December 23rd too early to say Merry Christmas.

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