238: The Problem With Friendsgiving

Now That We're A Family

Elisha and Katie Voetberg

Kids & Family, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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It’s that time of year! Holidays are upon us. Many of us will be gathering with our friends and family. Today we will be talking about the holidays, how we feel about Friendsgiving and if we think that it is helpful to the Christian community and families or not.

Any time you are not able to connect with family for the holidays, having friends to gather with is an abundant blessing. There was an article written by The Atlantic in 2018 that talks about the rise of popularity in Friendsgivings and how millennials are more and more opting for Friendsgiving over traditional family Thanksgiving gatherings and the reasons behind it. The Atlantic is a very liberal, anti-family and anti-God. They went into how we do so much better when we are able to choose who our family members are. Friendsgiving traditions derived from a lot of people that were living homosexual lifestyles. They felt ostracized by their biological family so they banded together with one another to celebrate these holidays.

We want to make sure to say that obviously, Friendsgivings are not wrong. If you’re not careful though, you can really start to see how these expressions and options are really tearing down the biological family God has put in place. So much of family holidays and traditions can really be enriching to the family unit. It’s one of those things that we want to reclaim, so to speak. If not reclaim, then solidify for our personal family going forward. We believe that when we elevate friendships to a family level, we are actually degrading and diminishing the importance the blood family that God has given us.

This is something that we care about, because we clearly care about the family unit. We don’t want to be insensitive either to different backgrounds that have dealt with stuff we haven’t had to deal with when it comes to holidays. We are talking about the surface level opinion that family doesn’t matter and that it’s all the same, whether it’s your neighbor or biological father.

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0:00.0	Howdy folks welcome back to the podcast. It's that time of year the holidays are upon us.
0:06.1	Many of us are going to be gathering with family. Many of us are going to be gathering with friends
0:10.7	hopefully not many of us are going to be lonely and by themselves this holiday
0:14.6	season if that is you maybe just listen to all of our episodes just listen to all of
0:20.9	our podcast there is a giant moth flying up there.
0:24.1	Yeah, there is.
0:25.7	Today we're going to be talking about the holidays,
0:27.5	how we feel about friendsgiving.
0:30.2	We think that's helpful to the Christian community, if it's helpful to the Christian community if it's helpful to families or not and then some things that we do in our family holiday traditions that we partake in.
0:42.0	Folks, thank you all so much for participating here on the podcast,
0:46.0	whether that's in the comment section on YouTube or if you are able to leave a rating
0:50.0	or a review on whatever platform you listen to our podcast on. Let's get this thing going. The Now that we're a Family Podcast.
1:04.3	Well, Catherine Joy here, you know what's funny is that about three years ago,
1:08.8	or no, two years ago, we, because of the circumstances, because of the circumstances, we were
1:16.3	not with any family on Thanksgiving.
1:19.7	And it really, it was like, wow, I don't know how I feel about this I remember on the day and
1:25.0	And then I would remember being invited to some different friends givings and I think the first time I heard that expression was
1:36.4	I think it was 2015 because I had just moved away from Centralia and so the all of a sudden doing holidays away from my family became a possibility I guess and I thought
1:45.8	a friend's giving that's cool and obviously that can be a tremendous
1:48.6	blessing and actually even prior to hearing about that, I had been involved in other non-family holidays
1:57.1	because of being away from home. In fact,
1:59.9	Oh yeah, that's so funny.
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