422: Post-Christmas and Post-New Year Debrief

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) Still Asking Berry's Question Stephen R. Lawhead More from 1517: Support 1517 Podcast Network: 1517 Podcasts : 1517 on YouTube : 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts : 1517 Events Schedule : 1517 Academy - Free Theological Education : What's New from 1517: Coming Home for Christmas: 1517 Advent Devotional Face to Face: A Novel of the Reformation by Amy Mantravadi Untamed Prayers: 365 Daily Devotions on Christ in the Book of Psalms by Chad Bird Remembering Your Baptism: A 40-Day Devotional by Kathryn Morales Sinner Saint by Luke Kjolhaug More from the hosts: Donovan Riley Christopher Gillespie CONTACT and FOLLOW: Email mailto:BannedBooks@1517.org Facebook Twitter

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This episode is 03:04:20 long.

This episode was published on Jan 3, 2026.

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