As our school-children know, Thanksgiving extends all the way back to the very founding settlements of the English-speaking Christians in what is now
Destroying the Idol of Murmuring
Then Moses said to Aaron, “Say to the whole congregation of the people of Israel, ‘Come near before the Lord, for he has heard your grumbling.’” And
Winslow’s Letter and the First Thanksgiving at Plymouth
Edward Winslow had been a lay leader in the congregation English exiles at Leiden, Holland (1617-1620), one of four who wrote to agents in London to
Thanksgiving for Providence in Our Families: An American Story
I thank God that just 10 generations ago, in September of 1620, my grandfather, Richard Milton of Gloucestershire, England, in the parish of St.
“God is Great; God is Good; Let us Thank Him…”—Remembering Thanksgiving
Growing up in a rural, poverty-stricken area of South Louisiana, my Aunt Eva, who adopted this orphan boy, had never driven a car. Therefore, my world