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Thanksgiving
Today’s Thanksgiving feast has its origins in an English Reformation tradition carried on by the pilgrims who arrived at Plymouth in1620. In an affront to the Catholic liturgical calendar, Puritans celebrated days of fasting and days of feasting—notably the day of feasting at the end of the fall harvest—in gratitude for God’s provision. In an age where consumption of food is often far removed from fields where it is produced, a growing number of evangelicals have reinterpreted the holiday as a time not only to thank god for abundance, but to examine where abundance comes from and the ethics of food, hunger, and environment.
Eat, Drink, and Relax
Think the Pilgrims would frown on today's football-tossing, turkey-gobbling Thanksgiving festivities? Maybe not.
November 1, 2004
SoulWork: The Impossibility of Thanksgiving
Why gratefulness is more gift than duty.
November 25, 2009
Thanksgiving at Fair Acres
A meal with my mother and other nursing-home residents opened a small crack in their stony detachment, and gave a brief glimpse of the kingdom of heaven.
November 13, 2000
More on Thanksgiving
Why a Big Stomach Belongs at Thanksgiving
And how my own appetite went from enemy to dear friend.
November 21, 2012
Stop Turning Thanksgiving into a Facebook Like
Biblical gratitude is far more than an attitude.
November 23, 2011
'One Thousand Gifts,' Reconsidered
A second take on Ann Voskamp's bestseller about gratitude.
August 26, 2011
Why Gratitude Is Not Enough
Ann Voskamp's book 'One Thousand Gifts' threatens to turn thanksgiving into the key to our salvation.
August 8, 2011
Thanksgiving Question Nearly Deports Tortured Christian
An immigration judge was distressed that 'Li claimed that Thanksgiving was a Christian holiday.'
April 4, 2011
Today's Pilgrims
Like the settlers of Plymouth Colony, today's refugees and asylum seekers have fled their homelands because of persecution of several kinds—not just religious.
November 24, 2010
Happy Wastegiving?
Tips for celebrating abundance tomorrow without creating unnecessary waste.
November 24, 2010
Evangelical vs. Mainline Politics
A new study suggests that evangelical pastors have been more likely to take public stances and candidates than their mainline cohorts.
November 22, 2010
Marching Farmers, Homeless Slaves
How Christianity's Jewish roots point us to a different kind of Thanksgiving.
November 25, 2008
Fruit Pies, Popcorn, and Music
The Pilgrim legacy goes beyond Thanksgiving to a love of music still with us today.
November 24, 2008
Turkey Time 
Plus: Bush preaches on religious freedom in Vietnam, Norway debates church-state split, the latest on the Ted Haggard fallout, and other stories from online sources around the world.
November 21, 2006
Eat, Drink, and Relax
Think the Pilgrims would frown on today's football-tossing, turkey-gobbling Thanksgiving festivities? Maybe not.
November 1, 2004
Thanksgiving at Fair Acres
A meal with my mother and other nursing-home residents opened a small crack in their stony detachment, and gave a brief glimpse of the kingdom of heaven.
November 13, 2000
Opinion: How Calvinists Spread Thanksgiving Cheer
Charity and predestination go hand in hand. (Aaron Belz, The Wall Street Journal)
Peace, Love and Puritanism
Celebrating the liberty they had gained by coming to the New World, they echoed St. Paul’s assertion that true liberty was inseparable from the obligation to serve others. (David B. Hall, The New York Times)
Opinion: Peace, Love and Puritanism
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s portrait of progressive Pilgrims was unfair and inaccurate. (David D. Hall, The New York Times)
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