The Holiday Season brings out kindness, patience, and generosity, but why should those values fade once the decorations come down? This week, we explore how hope builds resilience, how patience strengthens relationships, and how values (not supernatural promises) create lasting goodness. What if we carried the best parts of this season into the rest of our year?
Have you ever noticed how the warm, generous spirit of the Holiday Season often clashes with the loudest religious voices claiming the season for themselves? Every year, some folks insist there’s a “war on Christmas,” while completely missing the simple, human goodness the season invites: hope, patience, kindness, and genuine connection with the people in our lives.
Welcome to Mythologizing the Bible, where we’ll be taking a look at three readings from the Christian Bible through the lens of “sacred myth.”
As we reflect on the readings for the 3rd Sunday of Advent, we’ll explore how the season’s deepest values can outshine the manufactured outrage, and how ancient stories can help us practice the kind of goodness that actually makes life better, no supernatural guarantees required.
In this episode, we’re asking what our world would look like if we carried the best parts of the Holiday Season—our generosity, our patience, our resilience—into the rest of the year? And what gets in the way of doing that with the people we love most?
