My one job is to write a Thanksgiving prayer. Allow me to share it with you. “Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day, for Pilgrims and natives, for friendship and sharing. Thank you for a nation ...

Many of these blessing prayers included the theme of thanksgiving as well ... it still too influenced by Catholic practice. The Pilgrims were among the English Protestant groups who rejected ...

While the Wampanoag did help the Pilgrims learn to survive in the ... 1789, as a day of prayer and thanksgiving. Thanksgiving itself was not celebrated annually until 1863 when President Abraham ...

We should ponder why our country bootstrapped the dishonest Pilgrim myth into our culture. Abraham Lincoln actually began the official national Thanksgiving holiday, “Thanksgiving and Prayer ...

We are accustomed to thinking of the Pilgrims at Plymouth and the neighboring Wampanoag tribe of Massachusetts as the first to celebrate Thanksgiving, but some scholars say that isn’t accurate.