This is the long version of the interview Pastor Doug had with Pixar movie Director Pete Docter about the recently released movie Soul. It is long but well worth the time!

Pete is the Chief Creative Officer of Pixar, and has directed several films there including the Oscar-winning Up and Inside Out. Doug and Pete talk about faith, grief, grace, emotional themes in his movies, and their friendship over the years. Learn how Soul was finished and released during the COVID-19 pandemic era. Pete discusses the imaginative benefits of boredom for kids, and lets Doug know about the best pizza in the Bay Area.

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This is an Up Close and Personal interview with Pastor Doug checking in with Brett Bauer and Ryan Niemeyer, FPC's first ever Pastor Husbands.

More familiarly known as Twas the Night Before Christmas... this was a favorite of my fathers and he could sing it as a song... which I will not subject you to...

The sad and joyful conclusion to one of the great Christmas stories. I hope it has brought as much joy to your life as it did to mine.

Part 4 of the birds Christmas Carol in which Mrs. Ruggles teaches her little ones how to behave in society. Special Guest Reader in this episode is Laurie Bunnell.

Part 3 of the birds Christmas Carol in which we hear Carol's Plan to celebrate Christmas by blessing someone else.

Part 2 of The Birds Christmas Carol- In which we learn that Carol is not well and Uncle Jack is coming from England...

Part 1 of my favorite of all Christmas Stories, The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin... If you listen to any of these stories, listen to all of this one...

A story from Vernon Lee offering another view on the Nativity...  it begins "Now I cannot affirm that things did really take place in this manner, but it greatly please me to think that they did." Fra Domincio Cavalca...

A story from Spain by Harrison S. Morris, some miracles are not always what we think...