Christmas Traditions with Liggin Duncan on this edition of Truth and Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth and Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

It is Christmastime, and as has become our custom on Truth and Love, we want to invite a Christian minister onto the podcast and just find out some more about him.

This week, we are just thrilled to welcome Dr. Liggin Duncan to the podcast.

He is the Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer of the Reform Theological Seminary.

And by the time you're listening to Truth and Love, most of you will probably be familiar with that.

But we're glad you're here, Dr. Duncan, because we want to find out some more about you and your family and how you celebrate Christmas.

Well, I'm thrilled to be here with you, Heath. Merry Christmas to you.

So most people listening to this are going to be familiar with you, be familiar with your ministry,

but for those who maybe haven't been introduced to you as fully or may not be aware of all that

you're doing,

give us a taste of your ministry and how you came to be in service in that way.

I grew up in Greenville, South Carolina.

My mother was a godly Southern Baptist who strayed into Presbyterianism.

And she's a graduate of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, actually cataloged the church music library at Southern when she was a student in the 1950s.

When was that?

1950s.

And then she taught, she was a choir director in Baptist churches in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia before joining the music faculty at

Furman University in the late 1950s. And that's where she and my dad met. And so I grew up in a home

where my mom was the music director at my local church. My dad was an elder in my congregation. So

the church was very much at the center of life. And I, you know, for my earliest

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