Happy Friendsgiving!: Episode 930
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The rise of Friendsgiving celebrations, plus the real story behind Thanksgiving, and navigating grief during the holidays.
Featured musical artist: Darlene Zschech
Roundtable: Thanksgiving With Friends
For people who either can’t or won’t celebrate Thanksgiving with family, the trend of “Friendsgiving” is here. We interview three single young adults who’ve hosted and participated in Friendsgiving celebrations. They’ll provide tips for how to invite and include people, divvy up the food, plan activities around the meal, and keep thankfulness at the center.
Culture: What Really Happened at the First Thanksgiving?
Pilgrims, Squanto, turkey, corn, big hats and a New World: We think we know the details of the first Thanksgiving, but what’s fact and what’s fiction? Thankfully, Bill Petro has done all the research so we don’t have to. He’ll share what led up to the historic feast, who participated, what it meant, and why it matters in 2025. We’ll also discuss the commercialization of Thanksgiving and some of the more modern applications and traditions.
They Came for Freedom: The Forgotten, Epic Adventure of the Pilgrims
Inbox: Grief at the Holidays
Whether you’ve experienced a recent loss or not, the holidays are a trigger for grief and other big emotions. Using the example of his father’s recent death, counselor Geremy Keeton weighs in on how to process feelings of intense sadness.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, Lisa Anderson here with Boundless, letting you know about this year's Advent experience. |
| 0:06.6 | Like last year, it will be a four-week, four-text and video experience. |
| 0:12.2 | So join us by texting Advent to 32728. That's Advent at 32728. |
| 0:18.9 | Or you can go to boundless.org slash advent and sign up there. |
| 0:23.7 | Get signed up now because it all begins on November 28th. |
| 0:28.0 | So make it happen, and we'll see you then. Hey, everyone, welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. |
| 0:45.2 | This is Lisa Anderson here with you. |
| 0:48.3 | And, yeah, we have got a great roundtable, which, continuing the theme of Thanksgiving, because it is here in the U.S. |
| 0:56.5 | Thanksgiving weekend, we thought we would pull a few people together to talk about the rise |
| 1:02.3 | of what we call Friendsgiving. And for those of us who are a little bit older than young adults, |
| 1:08.3 | and we're extremely valuable and wise mentors. I'm just going to say |
| 1:14.8 | that harkening back to, I'm sure there are older examples, but if you think of the TV show |
| 1:21.4 | Friends, this is what for me comes to mind because I'm squarely in that middle to the end of |
| 1:27.2 | Gen X and these were my people |
| 1:29.7 | when I was in college and beyond. So that said, I think they kind of started this idea in the |
| 1:36.0 | modern TV era of this happening, but it is continuing, and it's morphine, and it's probably |
| 1:41.6 | even better now. And so to talk about this, I have Dakota, Lindsay, and Kat here. |
| 1:46.6 | Hey, y'all. |
| 1:47.1 | Hey, Lisa. |
| 1:48.3 | It is super fun to have you. |
| 1:50.5 | Friendsgiving, I think if you Google Friendsgiving, you can find all kinds of articles, you can find recipe ideas, you can find activity ideas of how to make this happen, of how to do Friendsgiving with people that you don't even like the obligatory friends or your friend is bringing a friend. |
| 2:08.2 | You don't like that friend. |
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