Put your pagan feet on the ole Yule log and let the Ringside Preachers tell you a better tale about how the world began, and what heroes once did to save it.
 Topics: - Christmas gift guide for guys, from the Preacher men - The Tim Burton of Advent stories: theological differences between the 1-year and 3-year lectionaries - If some sort of dystopian event happens, what’s in your “bug out bag”? -“He knew how to keep Christmas well,” from Charles Dickens. Do we have that knowledge? Guest: Rev. James Hopkins First Lutheran Church of Boston Thank you:  1517.org proud member of the 1517 Podcast Network and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
 and thejaggedword.com Music: Willing Virginia - Christmas Time Willing Virginia - Emmanuel Dead Horse One - I love my man Other stuff: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens