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Here is the schedule for Christmas Week on the Badger Benson Show. I hope you’ll join me for all the fun this week! Starting Sunday with Advent and a special music show featuring Sojourn. Then catch all the shows during the week leading to the next Christmas Carol study on Friday night. Then on Saturday the Christmas Eve special with the Deck Your Den Awards and final installment of A Christmas Carol, plus a special report from a very special guest. Then on Sunday, Christmas Day! The Golden George Awards for 2011 will be announced!
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Sun 12/18 – 4th Sunday In Advent 7:00 AM
Sun 12/18 – 2011 Christmas Music Special featuring Sojourn 6:00 PM

Mon 12/19 – Morning Prayer 6:30 AM
Mon 12/19 – Christmas Update – Obama Claus, North Pole News, Previews of Deck Your Den Contest and Golden George Awards 7:00 PM

Tue 12/20 – Morning Prayer 6:30 AM

Tue 12/20 – Christmas Update – Badger’s Christmas Must Do’s 7:00 PM

Wed 12/21 – Christmas Update – Obama Claus, North Pole News 6:30 AM
Wed 12/21 – 2010 Xmas Eve and Xmas Day Special 7:00 PM

Thr 12/22 – Christmas Update – Obama Claus, North Pole News 6:30 AM
Thr 12/22 – (Rebroadcast 12/16) Christmas Carol Stave Three 7:00 PM

Fri 12/23 – Christmas Update – Obama Claus, North Pole News 6:30 AM
Fri 12/23 – Christmas Carol Stave Four 7:00 PM

Sat 12/24 – (Rebroadcast 12/23) Christmas Carol Stave Four 7:00 AM
Sat 12/24 – Christmas Eve Special: Devotional, Stave Five, Deck Your Den Winners, Obama Claus (1 Day) 8:00 AM

Sun 12/25 -5th Sunday In Advent 7:00 AM
Sun 12/25 – Christmas Day Special: Golden George Awards, Obama Claus – It’s here! 8:00 AM

Mon 12/26 – (Rebroadcast 12/24-25) 2011 Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Specials 7:00 PM

if you’re a friend on my Facebook page you’ve noticed over the past few weeks I’ve been sharing snippets and insight from a faith perspective on the Charles Dickens Christmas classic “A Christmas Carol”. The material I’m using comes from Stephen Skelton who wrote a special edition to “Carol” with footnotes and discussion questions on the Christian themes and aspects that Dickens used in “Carol”. It’s a great read and makes for a wonderful seasonal study for a church or small group.

On Facebook and Twitter I’ve been posting daily messages from the footnotes about the story. I’ll do this each day for the entire book up to Christmas Day.

Also, the Christmas Series of Shows this year will feature each Stave from “A Christmas Carol”. Join me this Friday night at 7 PM as I kick off the study on the show at blogtalkradio.com/badger-benson

Here is what I have posted so far: I like to call them “Scroogies.

11/18 The term "Carol" we use for any Christmas song. But Dickens was using the context of his time, a carol meant a song celebrating the birth of Christ. Thus he divides the book into "staves" instead of chapters. A stave is a stanza of a song.

11/19 The colloquial word "scrooge" means "to squeeze". Dickens point to use it as a name is to underscore his main character’s primary sin: greed.

11/20 Scrooge’s catchphrase "bah humbug" was the common term for non-sense. We think of him saying it a lot. Actually it is said very little in the story, and even by the end of Stave One he can barely get it out, as one of the first signs of transformation, and it’s never said again in the remaining four staves.

11/21 Marley’s death is "7 years ago this night" (Christmas Eve). 7 often seen as a Holy number. Also we celebrate Christ’s birth on Christmas Day. The implication is that Marley never knew Christ in life; and foreshadowing a rebirth for Scrooge.

11/22 Note that the first two spirits appear accompanied by light, but the third arrives shrouded in darkness.

11/23 Marley appears to Scrooge as "still agitated by the hot vapor from an oven", an obvious reference to hell.

11/24 Now in Stave Two: "He resolved to lie awake until the hour was past; and considering he could no more go to sleep than go to Heaven." Dickens gives a dual purpose with the words in Carol many times, this being one example.

11/25 "It is required of every man," returned the Ghost, "That the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. It is doomed to wander through the world-oh, woe is me! And witness what it cannot share, but might have shared on earth, and turned to happiness!" Dickens was having Marley speak of the Great Commission.

11/26 Scrooge is so consumed by money at start of Stave 2 that if the sun were blotted out his biggest concern is that people who owe him money will not be able to count the days to pay him in a timely manner. Two purposes in this: The extent of his greedy nature; and also the blindness of those who live in spiritual darkness even when surrounded by light.

11/27 The appearance of Ghost of Christmas Past is based on the German character the Christkind – according to legend was a heavenly messenger said to have announced the birth of Christ. Other stories say it is a child who brought gifts to infant Jesus. In parts of Germany and other countries it is this character who brings children their toys on Christmas and not Santa Claus.

11/28 "Good Heaven!" says Scrooge. A notable change early in Stave 2 from his earlier "Bah Humbug!"

11/29 When the First Spirit says he is there for Scrooge’s welfare, the worldly minded miser thinks of his physical well-being, causing the Spirit to clarify it is "reclamation", emphasizing a spiritual rehabilitation.

11/30 "It would have been in vain for Scrooge to plead that the weather and the hour were not adapted to pedestrian purposes; that bed was warm, and the thermometer a long way below freezing; that he was clad but lightly in his slippers, dressing-gown, and nightcap; and that he had a cold upon him at the time." Dickens seems to satirize a list of excuses for not following the spirit. In our own lives we might compare this to a cold Sunday morning when we’d rather stay in bed than go to church.

Tomorrow morning is the Thanksgiving Day Show! Join me for a short Thanksgiving Day message. It starts at 9:00 AM.

Before that join me for a special edition of Morning Prayer on the Badger Benson Show. That starts at 6:30 AM.

Have safe travels and a happy Thanksgiving!

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It’s been a few months since I’ve done anything with the web site or hosted a show. That was on purpose, but I do apologize for not giving any specifics about it all until now.

Back in October I finished up my degree at Bellevue University in the Leadership program. I decided to take the remaining weeks of my classes to concentrate full efforts on finishing strong. I successfully completed my degree!

Around the same time I took a new job working in the Nebraska legislature as an administrative aide. As I got started I didn’t want to make too much public until I felt comfortable with everything. I likely will not make much commentary on the site or show about Nebraska politics as it pertains to what is happening in the Unicameral.

However, I will continue to do the show and focus on subjects related to humanities, leadership, and national news. I’m also looking forward to the coming year of continuing to assist our grass roots groups in Nebraska. I’m looking forward to learning now working inside the capitol. I appreciate all of the well wishes over the past few months as I moved into a new phase of my life.

Also I have started a side project called Louisville Nebraska Radio, which also airs on BlogTalkRadio.com  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/louisvillenebraska The project started as I finished at Bellevue with my civic project in the Kirkpatrick Signature Series. The concept was to take the show I was presently doing and turn into a format for rural communities to utilize as part of their own community to cover area news and events, and promote themselves. Part of the inspiration for this came from seeing the launch of Glenn Beck’s GBTV. I hope that what I am doing might serve as model for other communities on how to utilize social media.

As for the Badger Benson Show there is plenty coming up! I will be launching a morning prayer/faith based show, heard daily in the morning at the same location http://www.blogtalkradio.com/badger-benson Look for that to start tomorrow or early next week!

Also much like last year there will be a holiday series of shows including a series for Thanksgiving and another Christmas Countdown series. Those will start next week. Also coming in January – the 2011 AmeriCANS and AmeriCANTS of the Year!

Stay tuned folks! The Badger Den is alive. When you’re inside the den…you’re outside the box!.

Yesterday as you know was Veteran’s Day. To mark the day I decided to re-air my interview with my Great Uncle Bill Baltisberger. Uncle Bill served during WWII as a navigator on bombers. He was part of many missions in the European theater. The interview includes several humorous stories, his thoughts on modern events, his missions, and his dramatic escape from Germany after his plane went down.

Thank you to my Great Uncle Bill and all the Veterans out there!

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