Supposed to love Christmas
- S1E20
- 17:52
- December 24th 2020
Well... it's Christmas Eve and we can finally see the finish line for 2020. What a strange year... did any of our futurists or experts predict this one?
As we head into this break I wanted to put together a quick episode to share Holiday survival tips for LGBTQ2S+ Christians or for anyone who might have all the happy joyous feelings that we're 'supposed to' have at this time of year.
I'll be home for Christmas this year and I want to acknowledge how hard that's going to be for me.
To be honest, the break between Christmas and New Years is usually one of the loneliest and lowest times of the year for me.
I know that I'm not alone, and that for many Queer people of faith, the holiday season can be really hard and really dark. That cheery exterior that we are expected to portray in pictures, at parties and on social media.... that's not the reality for many of us.
Christmas can be a reminder and a celebration of everything that the church said that we are NOT allowed to be and can activate many Religious Trauma Syndrome triggers.
To help survive this holiday season I want to propose 7 Holiday survival tips for LGBTQ2S+ Christians.
James
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