December Check-Up

Living in the Meantime with Stephen Bauman · Dec 3, 2025 · 2m

In this brief but poignant seasonal reflection, Stephen Bauman explores the profound paradox at the heart of the period between late November and early January. While this stretch of the calendar is filled with religious and civic celebrations that elevate gratitude, compassion, humility, and generosity, it also unleashes a torrent of commercialism, consumer pressure, and the myth that our highest civic duty is to “spend, spend, spend.”Stephen invites listeners to consider how this tension between sacred values and consumer impulses reveals something deeper: the true state of the human soul…