The Welcome to the American Churchman podcast. Once again, I'm your host, John Harris, and my co-host, Matthew Pearson. Hey, Matthew, how you doing? I'm doing good, John. Hope you're doing well as well.

Yeah, well, enjoying the Christmas season and all the

busyness it entails, but also just, uh, it's a special time of year. I can't put my finger on it.

And I think having a child for the first time and seeing it through her eyes is also pretty cool.

Yeah. It's always fun. I'm definitely relaxing because I just finished my last class yesterday.

Uh, so now all my, my fall classes are, are cleared. So now all my my fall classes are cleared.

So now I'm free. So winter semester starts when? I'm not going to be doing any winter

semester classes this time around. I'm going to be, we're going to be job hunting the whole

time. So that's what we're going to be doing. We're going to be locking in. Great for Matthew. He's on the job hunt. He's got a girlfriend. He needs your prayers.

So we have a big show today. We're going to talk about Christmas, actually, and the debate that's

been around for a long time on whether or not Christmas should be celebrated by Christians.

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So we have people already correcting the grammar of the podcast because I guess I use

apostrophe in the wrong

place. I said Christians, should Christians celebrate Christmas and I put an apostrophe there? I will correct

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