Pop Culture Pastors Hour: “Will It Preach?”—Holiday Grab Bag Edition

MaryAnn McKibben Dana

and I had a great conversation today - super fun as we let the fates decide what Christmas songs/shows/movies would be subjected to the question, “Will it preach?” We didn’t get through our entire list but we got to some of the ones that I personally was most excited to discuss. I could have done an entire conversation just on the episode of The West Wing!

Anyway, I referenced this article from William Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hargrove when I was talking about A Muppet Christmas Carol - The Heresy of a God Who Hates Empathy

Also, the algorithm clearly knows what will get some hits - this was the first clip that was autogenerated by Substack…(this is only a screengrab)

Here’s the full list of things we had in the spinner to possibly get into…

Songs:

• 12 Days of Christmas

• Last Christmas

• Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer

• Santa Baby

• My Favorite Things

Movies:

• Home Alone

• Die Hard

• A Christmas Story

• Love Actually

• Elf

• Muppet Christmas Carol

• Christmas Vacation

• Nightmare before Christmas

TV:

• Carol of the Bells - Ted Lasso Christmas Episode

• Rankin Bass Christmas Specials

• In Excelsis Deo - West Wing episode

Over the next month-ish, we are going to get into:

• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (date TBD, but sometime between Christmas and New Years)

• Pluribus (Apple TV show) - we’ll be doing that sometime in early-ish January

• Lord of the Rings! - Late January. The extended editions (which are, in my humble opinion, the ONLY editions) are being re-released in theaters in January! Woot! Forth Eorlingas!

GPLHJ,
Ed