We think we know the story of Thanksgiving: the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, faced a harsh winter, famine and disease, and then only with the help of friendly natives learned how to survive. It’s nice for bedtime stories, and feel-good paintings, but it ignores the most important lessons of our early history.
The giants in the land can be defeated if we don’t give up.
Even in an age of text messages and emojis, real words on real paper matter more than ever.
If there is any place we should set aside our differing understandings of theology, it should be at the foot of the cross.
Many of our social and political problems can be attributed to idle busybodies.
