The necessity of giving thanks to God is not just a polite gesture or a casual acknowledgment of all the blessings the Lord bestows upon us. The fact is it's a fundamental part of our relationship ...

Vern Snoeyink, a tutor with First Presbyterian Church’s English as a Second Language program, helps organ­ize the program’s Thanksgiving meal Wednesday at the church in downtown Champaign. English as ...

At a time of year when we are given to ponder the four last things, praying for the souls in purgatory and preparing for Advent, we are inevitably barraged with advertising from companies and stores ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — On its face, Thanksgiving is a secular event. Established as a holiday in 1863 by President Lincoln and moved to its current calendar day by President Roosevelt in 1941, it’s mostly ...

I think every day is time to reflect on all the good that God has done and is doing. Psalm 136 says, “Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever” (vs. 1). In this psalm ...

One way an insight happens is when we hear something said in a way we hadn’t heard before … and, having been moved by the phrase or image, we think to ourselves: “Yes, I always knew that. Just never ...

I think we focus so much on Christmas that we can forget what a blessing Thanksgiving is. We can say the reason is that this distinctly American holiday cannot be as monetized as other year-end ...