thanksgiving

Is Thanksgiving All About Receiving?

In millions of homes throughout America families and friends join to together to celebrate a cherished holiday, Thanksgiving. In countless homes people go through various types of rituals and traditions including taking time to share what they’re thankful for. If we listen to those often hastily prepared statements, we’ll find the vast majority of themContinue reading “Is Thanksgiving All About Receiving?”

Puritans and Indians

The Puritans didn’t see the land they colonized as pristine, which it wasn’t, and they didn’t see it as merely undeveloped, which it wasn’t, instead they saw it as a “hideous and desolate wilderness full of wild beasts and wild men.” With such an outlook is it any wonder that they looked upon the landContinue reading “Puritans and Indians”