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Thanksgiving

The forgotten virtue of gratitude

John Fea   |  November 25, 2021

Our annual Thanksgiving tradition here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home.  I wrote this Inside Higher Ed piece on gratitude in November 2008.  I have had to remind myself of this piece a lot in the last couple of years.–JF It was a typical...

Evangelical roundup: Thanksgiving 2021 edition

John Fea   |  November 25, 2021

What is happening in Evangelical land? Celebrating the wonders of creation on Thanksgiving. Apparently it is time to “thank the Pilgrims” for “defeating socialism.” How dare the Pilgrims provide for their neighbors! (After watching this anachronistic video, read Larry Glickman’s...

Do you think America is divided today? Consider the first Thanksgiving

John Fea   |  November 25, 2021

The first official Thanksgiving in the United States did not take place in 1621. (How could it? There was no United States in 1621). It happened in 1863 when Abraham Lincoln, on October 3, proclaimed that Thursday, November 26 would...

Why do the Detroit Lions always play on Thanksgiving?

John Fea   |  November 25, 2021

It’s a Thanksgiving tradition. This year the woeful Detroit Lions are looking for their first win of the season. Here is James Dator at SBNATION: When the Lions moved to Detroit in 1934, owner G.A. Richards was hellbent on starting...

Turkeys are invading college campuses

John Fea   |  November 25, 2021

Not a joke. Here is The New York Times: They are lounging next to bike racks and outside dorms. They are strutting across Harvard Yard. And, yes, they are occasionally fanning their feathers and charging at innocent students. Across the...

The Wall Street Journal will run its traditional Thanksgiving editorials

John Fea   |  November 24, 2021

Here is the Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal: Since 1961 we’ve run a pair of editorials written by our former editor Vermont Royster. The first is a historical account about the Pilgrims in 1620 as related by William Bradford, a...

How Thanksgiving became a capitalist holiday

John Fea   |  November 23, 2021

In Monday’s Evangelical Roundup (available twice a week to Current patrons at the Surface level), I included a piece by Wallbuilders president Tim Barton in which he claims that the seventeenth-century Pilgrims defeated socialism. Here is Barton: We often think...

Celebrating Juneteenth–together

John Fea   |  June 19, 2021

Historian Tara Strauch reminds us that laws don’t truly make holidays. We have to learn how to celebrate them together. In her recent piece at The Washington Post she compares the acceptance of Juneteenth with the celebration of another regional...

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