Welcoming Christmas with Russell Moore, Clarissa Moll, and Steve Cuss

The Bulletin

Christianity Today

News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.4 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Join us for the kickoff of Advent as Russell Moore, Clarissa Moll, and Being Human’s Steve Cuss discuss when they officially start listening to Christmas music, their favorite Christmas memories, nativity story characters that are meaningful to them, and what “Six White Boomers” means for Australians at Christmas. GO DEEPER WITH THE BULLETIN: -Join the conversation at our Substack. -Find us on YouTube. -Rate and review the show in your podcast app of choice. ABOUT THE GUESTS: Steve Cuss is a pastor, former chaplain, and founder of Capable Life which helps people lower internal and relational anxiety in the workplace and at home. He is the author of Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs and The Expectation Gap: The Tiny, Vast Space between Our Beliefs and Experience of God. Steve hosts the CT Media podcast, Being Human. ABOUT THE BULLETIN: The Bulletin is a twice-weekly politics and current events show from Christianity Today moderated by Clarissa Moll, with senior commentary from Russell Moore (Christianity Today’s editor-at-large and columnist) and Mike Cosper (senior contributor). Each week, the show explores current events and breaking news and shares a Christian perspective on issues that are shaping our world. We also offer special one-on-one conversations with writers, artists, and thought leaders whose impact on the world brings important significance to a Christian worldview, like Bono, Sharon McMahon, Harrison Scott Key, Frank Bruni, and more. The Bulletin listeners get 25% off CT. Go to https://orderct.com/THEBULLETIN to learn more. “The Bulletin” is a production of Christianity Today Producer: Clarissa Moll Associate Producer: Alexa Burke Editing and Mix: TJ Hester Graphic Design: Rick Szuecs Music: Dan Phelps Executive Producers: Erik Petrik and Mike Cosper Senior Producer: Matt Stevens Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Christianity today, you're listening to The Bulletin, a podcast about the people, events, and issues that are shaping our world.
0:13.0	I'm Clarissa Mall, producer and moderator of the Bulletin.
0:16.6	This week, the church begins the season of Advent, where Christians turn their hearts toward
0:21.5	Bethlehem as they journey with the prophets of old to the manger of the Christ Child.
0:27.1	Today, Russell and I sit down with Steve Cuss, host of CT Media's Being Human podcast, for a
0:32.7	conversation about what this season means to us.
0:36.3	Welcome to the show.
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1:21.6	This kind of reminds me of the 1980s when supergroups would form.
1:30.5	There'd be a band and then some members of the band would form their own supergroup.
1:34.1	And here are three of Christianity today's podcast host slash moderators.
1:40.0	Let's just briefly introduce ourselves.
1:41.5	I'll just begin since I've got the mic.
1:43.1	My name's Steve Cuss. I host
1:44.7	Being Human on C.T. I'm also a big fan of these other two people. Clarissa, let's go to you.
1:50.8	Hi, I'm Clarissa Mall. I am the producer and moderator of CT's flagship news podcast, The Bulletin.
1:56.6	And I'm Russell Moore, host of the Russell Moore Show here at CT.
2:00.5	We thought it would be fun just to chat Christmas, some fun things, also just some deeper things.
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