Christmas Day Year A

Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for Christmas Day, also known as the Nativity of Our Lord III, which falls on December 25th this and every year, including our deep dive into the Gospel of John!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here. We mentioned this year’s episode diving into the book of Revelation, last year’s Jesus Loafs You series of episodes on the Bread of Life Discourse, this year’s Good Shepherd Sunday episode with special guest Polly Festa, this year’s Holy Trinity episode diving into Woman Wisdom, this year’s Advent 3 episode diving into the Babylonian Exile, and this year’s 7th Sunday after Pentecost episode with Rev. Nic Peñaranda where we talk about God’s Holy Darkness. Kay talked about a Diana Butler Bass piece on John 14:6, which on reflection is probably in her excellent book, “Freeing Jesus.”

Also, if you want to learn more about the 7 signs & 7 discourses in John, try this site. And if you want to read about the 7 “I am” statements, this article will be helpful. And a basic outline of the Gospel of John itself is here.

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