Tag Archives: Thanksgiving

If Christianity Is Your Religion, Don’t Thank God for the Cross

If Christianity were my religion, I wouldn’t thank God for the Cross. But it’s not my religion, and on Thanksgiving Day here in the U.S. tomorrow, I will be giving God all the thanks I can give him for the Cross of Jesus Christ. I know I need to explain that, and I will. First …

November 23, 2011 – 8:13 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices, Postmodernism/ Relativism, Religions, The Faith, Worldviews | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (13)

“All Men Are Created Equal”

I’m a week late for a certain anniversary date: it was 145 years, one week, and one day ago that Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. He thought his short speech rather a failure at the time, but upon its publication, the nation and later the world came to regard it as a master statement …

November 27, 2008 – 10:19 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science, The Faith | Tagged , , , | Comments (8)

Kindergarten Thanksgiving Celebration Provokes Protests, Hate Mail; Police Called

Not filed under “parodies:” Protesters descended Tuesday on Condit Elementary School in Claremont, tersely arguing over the construction-paper pilgrim and Native American costumes worn by kindergartners at a decades-old Thanksgiving tradition. Police were called to the school when tensions rose. Officers also were monitoring Claremont Unified Supt. David Cash’s home after he received hate mail …

November 26, 2008 – 7:36 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Miscellanea | Tagged , | Comments (6)