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The Importance of Family Meals – Tim Goeglein, 11/11/25 (3152)

Issues, Etc.

Lutheran Public Radio

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.91.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Tim Goeglein of Focus on the Family Why Family Dinners are Important Stumbling Toward Utopia Toward a More Perfect Union

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I grew up in a house where it wasn't breakfast, lunch, and dinner,

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but it was definitely breakfast most days and dinner virtually every night until everybody got really busy in their teens.

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And it was the family around one table eating a meal

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together, and it was a time when the family not only reconnected with one another, talked about

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their days, but they also argued and fought over food, and they were learning things, even in the

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course of the meal.

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That is a very rare thing today.

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Joining us to talk about the importance of family dinners, Tim Gagline, he's vice president of government and external relations.

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