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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.
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Can We Consume Character? How to Learn Justice by Feasting
Deuteronomy offers a surprising method for becoming just disciples.
My Unlikely, Cross-Cultural Friendsgiving
A tea date with a Middle Eastern stranger led to friendship with women from nearly 20 countries—and changed my perspective on the world.
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Loaves and Casserole Dishes: Will Church Cookbooks Survive?
The spiral-bound tomes guarding the secrets of the best sugar cookies, sheet cake, and seven-layer salad are disappearing—but not completely.
Gratitude Changes Our Desires
Christians worship a strange Giver who gives strange gifts in strange ways.
The Bulletin
Violence, Protest, and Pumpkin Pie
Culture war in a crust: the surprising connection between Club Q, Iran, and pumpkin pie.
Thanks Be to God for Scripted Gratitude
The words I say every Sunday guide me toward gratefulness.
The Science of Giving Thanks to God
A growing body of research backs the benefits of divine gratefulness, in good times and bad.
Viral Jesus
Lord of ‘Little by Little’
Why we should always thank God for what we cannot see. Plus: Talking politics at the Thanksgiving table.
From the Archives: Elisabeth Elliot’s Devotionals
A selection of the late author’s CT publications.