Showing posts with label thanksgiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thanksgiving. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Thanksgiving Dinner with the Forebears: Questions I'd Love to Ask

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A wild change of subject from my usual political-religious analysis (some might say rants): I don't want U.S. Thanksgiving to recede too...
Thursday, November 24, 2022

As Americans Celebrate Thanksgiving, Obligation to Remember Our Real History

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Mural replica in Silverton, Oregon, of one of Norman Rockwell's "Four Freedoms" paintings,  at Wikimedia Commons It's not ...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

A Note of Thanks to Those Who Make This Blog Possible — Above All, My Husband Steve

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As a new year gets underway, I feel moved to make a statement of heartfelt thanks here — thanks to my husband Steve, who makes it pos...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

Two Thanksgiving Videos: Brothers and Sisters Under the Skin, and Our Chance to Atone for the Holocaust

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God's Mercy and Hate Rhetoric in the U.S. Public Square: A Thanksgiving Meditation

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A little (American) Thanksgiving day meditation I shared this morning on Facebook. Since a friend there told me she thought it was valua...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

The Command to Open Our Hands and American Exceptionalism: Marilynne Robinson on the Real Roots of American Christianity

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On this American holiday centered on giving thanks, Marilynne Robinson's words in her essay entitled "Open Thy Hand Wide: Mo...

Thanksgiving As Giving: Recommending to You Today a Local Group Supporting LGBT Youth

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You should rather open your hand, willingly lending enough to meet the need, whatever it may be (Deuteronomy 15:8) For those ...
Sunday, August 10, 2014

Gratitude: A Story from Our Recent Trip

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Gratitude is the highest form of acceptance. Like patience, it is one of the catalytic agents, one of the alchemist's secrets, for tu...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Giving Thanks for . . . You

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As the American Thanksgiving holiday nears, I want to issue a note of profound thanks to all the readers of this blog who contribute...

Baking Bread, Leavening Dough: A Thanksgiving Meditation from Steve

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Steve, as he and I walked this morning (we were talking about an essay I read yesterday by Michael Weingrad about why there's no...
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

A Thanksgiving Open Letter to Catholics of the Crookston, Minnesota, Diocese

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To the Catholic People of the Diocese of Crookston, Minnesota Dear Fellow Catholics: As you know, the day after tomorrow will b...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

To Readers: A Thank-You for Ideas for Postings

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As I continue posting repeatedly about the Komen-Planned Parenthood events, the HHS guidelines on contraceptive coverage, and the Cat...
Saturday, November 26, 2011

Bill Scher Is Thankful Conservatives No Longer Pretending

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Here's what Bill Scher is thankful for this Thanksgiving season: 

Give Thanks and Shop Till You Drop: Coleen Rowley on Culture of Spiritual Death Dominating American Life

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Post-Thanksgiving Shoppers 2010 While the American right is furious that President Obama didn't mention God in his brief Thanksg...
Thursday, November 24, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving

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Edward Hicks, "Peaceable Kingdom" For any American readers who may be logging in to read as you prepare to travel for t...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Thanksgiving, the Occupy Movement, and Jesus's Practice of Open Commensality

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As American Thanksgiving approaches and many people expect to gather tomorrow around family tables or tables of chosen families, I...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

Gratitude: My Five Points

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My family never did Thanksgiving when I was growing up.  So I'm unaccustomed to the practice that now seems embedded in American cultu...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008

On Giving

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“The spirit of a gift is kept alive by its constant donation,” Lewis Hyde, The Gift (NY: Random House, 1979), p. xix. I’m reading Lewis Hyd...