Food is a way to enjoy being alive. Drink wine and dance around the kitchen; kiss your beloved. Life can be beautiful...
Experts with scientific credentials tell us the best way to resolve interpersonal conflicts, how to...
Gratitude remains the only key that unshackles us and lets us breathe free. We all unthinkingly use the phrase “the gift of life,” but it is only a gift if we really think of it as such...
Why does the mystery of D.B. Cooper, who in 1971 committed the only unsolved airline hijacking in history, continue to fascinate us?...
FBI sketches of D.B. Cooper
On the evening of November 24, 1971—the day before Thanksgiving—a...
Those of my Dutch neighbor's generation knew exactly what they were doing in the Passion Play that was Europe during World War II. It was her Christian faith that sustained her through the hardships of those years...
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May this Thanksgiving be a feast of many gifts, both in the families we love and in this great nation for which we pray...
Thanksgiving has always been an occasion when we offer God our...
At what other time of the year do families really come together in the way they do on Thanksgiving?
I must admit, I always have mixed feelings about celebrating Thanksgiving.
It’s not that I don’t love...
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. —Cicero
I would mention that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. —G. K. Chesterton
There are some things that...
By long custom at St. John’s College, the president invites to Thanksgiving dinner all our international students, as well as any other students and faculty who are spending Thanksgiving away from home and family.
After the events...
Thank you for the Brussels sprouts Tepid, limp and giving gas, And my in-laws, chiefly louts, And the turkey that, alas, Roasted dry from dawn ‘til dark Now resembles Joan of Arc; Thank you for the stuffing...
I must admit, I always have mixed feelings about celebrating Thanksgiving.
It’s not that I don’t love giving thanks—in fact, I really do love it. And, I especially love how we Americans do it. If...
On the first day of our spring semester, at the little liberal arts college at which I teach, I have for the last fourteen years had the joy of watching forty freshmen respond to the complexities and depth...
The category of “Thanksgiving movies” is a select one indeed, but it is not meant as faint praise to crown John Hughes’ 1987 film, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, the greatest Thanksgiving film ever made. On the...
Mister Franklin, humans call him;
Turkeys call him Gentle Ben.
Lovingly we keep his memory
From our tree or field or fen,
Once our day of thanks ensures
Thanksgiving is the holiday that brings us all together, whether or not we’re Christians and whether or not we’re American citizens.
It’s the first holiday of the Holiday Season that begins around now and lasts until New Year.
