Welcome to the conversation that matters podcast. My name is John Harris. We have a special

Christmas edition for you today making space for a multicultural Christmas. That's right. It is a gospel coalition article

if several people have sent it to me and I have not read the whole thing yet.

I confess I did read like the first two sentences and I thought I should probably do a show on this, but it would be more fun if I did not read it. So I am going to go through it and we're going to go through it together like maybe there's

you know the title alone the title alone sort of assumes it seems like

maybe there's like an issue like maybe it's morally virtuous to make space for multicultural

for a multicultural Christmas whatever that means as if we haven't been doing it or

someone hasn't been doing it who needs to hear this article I always always thought, you know, in my family, we never had

any problem with anyone celebrating Christmas the way they wanted to celebrate it. At their

home, with their family, in their way. I mean we had our family. Sometimes Christmas

would fall on a Sunday and we go to church and we do what we do at church every

week sing songs and have a message usually themed on Christmas.

I suppose many of those songs would be European and in English because you have most of the church spoke English but you know we did sing

Felice Navi dot not in church but I do happen to really like that song so

maybe maybe I've already made space for a multicultural Christmas.

You know, actually if I think about it now, I mean I haven't even started this article.

I'm just thinking though, um, know Christmas itself though a lot of the

traditions that we have like like for instance the Christmas tree that they didn't come

from England or you know Scotland that, you know, if you look at my family tree according to ancestry.com,

of my genetics I should say, you know, that's a German thing. thing I don't have I'm not majority German so

maybe I've already done this maybe this is maybe I don't even need this article

but just in case there's someone else you might need this article. We are going to read it.

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