First Sunday of Christmas Year A

Join Rev. Emily E. Ewing (they) and Rev. Kay Rohloff (she) and special guest Rev. Collette Broady Grund (she), creator of The Grief Lectionary,to explore new and nerdy connections to the scripture for Christmas 1, also known as the First Sunday of Christmas, which falls on January 1st this year, including our deep dive into grief!

The scripture we refer to for this episode can be found here. For more on the Church calendar, or Revised Common Lectionary (which N@C uses for our episodes), check out our intro minisode. We talked about It’s OK that You’re Not OK by Megan Devine, the podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking and book The Hot Young Widows Club (both by Nora McInerny), and Learning to Walk in the Dark by Barbara Brown Taylor as great resources during grief.

Emily also mentioned this scene from Doctor Who “The Time of Angels.”

CN: we talk about ableism when discussing the deep dive, child murder in the Gospel reading.

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