Episode 23 - Lifting the Lid on the Nativity

Episode 23 – Show Notes This is our first ever Christmas special. We do our best to be seasonal in the middle of a wet November General Election season. First we mull over the changes that come over us all during Christmas, we call it communal madness like when football fever strikes us when the World Cup comes round. Is it good? What does it say about us all as humans? Then we take the opportunity of a Christmas Special to have a look at the nativity stories in Luke and Matthew. Our line is not so much the details and contradictions, rather how they fit in the overall picture of narratives in the gospels and how the gospel authors derived their material. The implications end up being as much about the Easter narratives as the Christmas ones. Links we mentionBart Erhman & Peter Williams on Unbelievable?https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Episodes/Unbelievable-Peter-J-Williams-and-Bart-Ehrman-Are-the-Gospels-historically-reliable BBC one-off podcast series “The missing cryptoqueen”https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07npk7p Doubts Aloud Links: Please leave us a review on iTunes and we will respond to any question asked there with the review. Or give feedback and ask questions using : [email protected] Join the Facebook Group discussions:https://www.facebook.com/groups/1023280847835278/Meet us all in person at the monthly “Unbelievable Christian and Skeptic Discussion Group” in central London, see:https://www.meetup.com/Unbelievable-Christian-and-Skeptic-Discussion-Group-London