100: G.K. Chesterton’s “The Christmas Ballads”

Break the cycle. Rise above. Focus on Christ in the manger. In their monumental 100th episode, Gillespie and Riley read and discuss G.K. Chesterton’s “The Christmas Ballads.” This episode, it’s a lot of incarnation talk and a few rabbit trails along the way.

Text: G. K. Chesterton, “The Christmas Ballads” from “The Spirit of Christmas”

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