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The Esau McCaulley Podcast

Why We Celebrate: The History and Meaning of Christmas Traditions

The Esau McCaulley Podcast

Esau McCaulley

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

5.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Esau is joined by fellow Wheaton professors, Emily McGowin and Timothy Larson to talk about the origins of some of our favorite Christmas traditions and why Christians should fully embrace celebrating all 12 days of Christmas.

Transcript

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Passion in my pocket so my pennies should be.

0:10.0

What they selling is cheap so I'm buying that this freedom is free.

0:13.0

I've been becoming me.

0:15.0

See when Jesus taking the lead with purpose I bleed and riles like going under the heat.

0:19.0

Defeaters are never.

0:20.0

You can't reattach with it sever. What's bringing you pleasure can tell you where you stacking your

0:24.3

treasure when storm is your weather know that it gets worse for it's better

0:31.4

Hello everybody welcome to the Eastside McCarley podcast I'm your host Issaa McCauleyauley. On this podcast, you're trying to take culture serious, his way of thinking about God.

0:40.6

Today on a podcast, we have two good friends of mine, Emily McGowan, who's associate professor

0:44.7

of theology at Wheaton College and co-pastor of Christi Advocate in Wheaton. We also have Timothy

0:52.3

Larson, who is the McManus chair of Christian thought.

0:56.1

He helps people think about Christianity. What can be better than that? Also at Wheaton College,

1:00.5

this is the Wheaton Heavy Podcast. But today we're going to talk, we're going to be talking about

1:05.0

Christmas. And because I'm addicted to draft, maybe because I always want to be a general

1:09.6

manager in sports.

1:15.2

And I take pride in hosting drafts and winning them all.

1:18.5

So we've had two drafts on the podcast, and I won both of them.

1:23.1

And this time, wait, I'm sorry, there's already, there's already a referee.

1:24.8

Mike, do you have something to say about this?

1:28.5

You did not actually win the Thanksgiving draft.

1:29.5

I did.

1:31.4

On Twitter, I won.

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