Well, welcome everyone to the Breakpoint podcast in our Q&A segment, Ask the Colson Center.

I'm Shane Morris, host of the upstream podcast and one of the writers for Breakpoint.

And I'm joined today by Glenn Sunshine, Senior Fellow at the Colson Center and a writer for Breakpoint, sitting in for John Stone Street.

Today, we're answering your questions.

These were sparked by

breakpoint commentaries, short courses, and the Colson Fellows program. If you'd like to send us a

question of your own, please email us at Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. Well,

Glenn, I'm so excited to have you on the program and to finally have some Christmas-related

questions here. I've been complaining for the last couple of weeks with John, but the questions

that our listeners have sent us have had nothing to do with Christmas. And so we finally

got a few of those on this episode. And I'm particularly excited to have you join me to talk through

these because we've talked about Christmas several times on upstream, Christmas and Advent,

I should say. We did a recent episode a couple of weeks ago about the evolution and progression

of liturgy through Christian history,

the way that it's developed, the concepts that in theology that became practice in the church.

And then before that, a year prior, we did an episode that actually was one of the more popular

upstream episodes, and that was on the Christmas

traditions that we think of as, you know, very typical Christmas trees, things like that,

that often get tarred and maligned as holdovers from paganism or even the timing of Christmas

itself. So I'm excited to have you on,

Glenn. I've appreciated your wisdom and your insight and especially on these topics related to

this time of year. Well, I'm glad to be here.

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