422: Post-Christmas and Post-New Year Debrief

Jan 3, 2026

03:04:20

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What's the Frequency, Kenneth? In this episode, we gather for a post-Christmas, post-New Year pastoral debrief. We talk about symbols and meaning, Christmas and holidays, signs and seasons, and how modern churches quietly cleared the path for culture to push Christ out of Christmas without much resistance. We explore the strange and largely arbitrary ways the world measures time, along with the old Adam's never-ending pyramid project. That is, his need to build meaning upward by effort, progress, and control rather than receive it as a gift. From there, we return to symbol and meaning. We ask why ancient liturgy's nostalgia or ornamentation, but the distilled shape of reality itself, why the Lord's Supper isn't a side practice, but the beating heart of the Church, of worship, and of the Christian life. And why stories' decorations for faith, but the way truth takes on flesh and finds us where we actually live. This is a conversation about time, worship, memory, and why the Church invents meaning but receives it again and again at the table.

SHOW NOTES:

Disney's Robin Hood (1973) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Hood_(1973_film)

Still Asking Berry's Question https://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/12/still-asking-berrys-question/

Stephen R. Lawhead https://www.stephenlawhead.com