A fresh, surprising look at the most familiar Christmas stories (Mary and Joseph, the shepherds and the angels, and the visiting Magi), uncovering how Christmas is an epic, multigenerational love story - and how sometimes interpreting the Bible means citing "scripture against scripture." This is the concluding episode of our four-part series, "Understanding Christmas."

A fresh, surprising look at the most familiar Christmas stories (Mary and Joseph, the shepherds and the angels, and the visiting Magi), uncovering how Christmas is an epic, multigenerational love story - and how sometimes interpreting the Bible means citing "scripture against scripture." This is the concluding episode of our four-part series, "Understanding Christmas."

A fresh, surprising look at the most familiar Christmas stories (Mary and Joseph, the shepherds and the angels, and the visiting Magi), uncovering how Christmas is an epic, multigenerational love story - and how sometimes interpreting the Bible means citing "scripture against scripture." This is the concluding episode of our four-part series, "Understanding Christmas."

Understanding Christmas - Part Four

Welcome to “Strange New World,” a show about understanding the Bible, the world’s most influential, misunderstood book - a podcast tailor-made for skeptics, believers, and everybody in between.
Hosted by SALT’s own Matthew Myer Boulton, who’s spent twenty years teaching the Bible and theology to students at Harvard Divinity School and seminaries in New England and the Midwest, “Strange New World” will take a fresh look at the world’s bestselling book of all time, the ancient community library we call “the Bible.”
The show’s title, “Strange New World,” is borrowed from an essay written by a Swiss theologian a hundred years ago, in which he wrote of “the strange new world within the Bible,” a world so ancient, so different, so familiar, so strange that it presses us to think new thoughts from new points of view, “to dare and to reach,” and ultimately “to grow out beyond ourselves.”

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Welcome to “Strange New World,” a show about understanding the Bible, the world’s most influential, misunderstood book - a podcast tailor-made for skeptics, believers, and everybody in between. Hosted by SALT’s own Matthew Myer Boulton, who’s spent twenty years teaching the Bible and theology to students at Harvard Divinity School and seminaries in New England and the Midwest, “Strange New World” will take a fresh look at the world’s bestselling book of all time, the ancient community library we call “the Bible.” The show’s title, “Strange New World,” is borrowed from an essay written by a Swiss theologian a hundred years ago, in which he wrote of “the strange new world within the Bible,” a world so ancient, so different, so familiar, so strange that it presses us to think new thoughts from new points of view, “to dare and to reach,” and ultimately “to grow out beyond ourselves.”

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Understanding Christmas - Part Four

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