This Thanksgiving, I have pledged to embrace the challenge of our differences, hold close our disagreements, and then see what God can make of us being together.

This Thanksgiving, I have pledged to embrace the challenge of our differences, hold close our disagreements, and then see what God can make of us being together.

One of the elements of Thanksgiving that I hold dear is that it is celebrated, year in and year out, no matter what the circumstances surrounding the day may be. In the times of deepest distress in our country — I think of the Civil War or the Great Depression — Thanksgiving was celebrated. In […]

11/27 One thing that reminds me I am getting older is the way holidays now come around so fast and make my head spin with flowing memories. There are the Thanksgivings of my childhood, when we went to my great-grandmother’s house and my grandparents were probably only slightly older than I am now. We kids […]