2025 Conflicted Christmas Special

What is ‘the Christmas story’ really? And how does it change when you tell it from within a different religious tradition? In Conflicted’s first-ever Christmas Special, Thomas and Aimen retell the Nativity as it appears in the Gospels and in the Qur’an. 

They discuss:

• Who were the Magi? Zoroastrian priests or Nabataean nomads?
• How the Nativity story differs between the Bible and the Qur’an
• A controversial theory about how local Christian traditions may have shaped the Qur’anic telling
• The overlooked reason why Qur’an presumes its audience already knows the underlying stories
• Christ’s ‘unfinished business’ in Islam: the Second Coming and the fight against the Antichrist
• The sharpest divergence: the Crucifixion and what it implies about Jesus’ mission

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Conflicted is a Message Heard production.

Executive Producers: Jake Warren & Max Warren.

Produced by Thomas Small and edited by Lizzy Andrews.

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