A Great Thanksgiving around the family table
Shea Watts offers a prayer to use at the Thanksgiving table.
A Thanksgiving prayer (When we’re tired of giving thanks)
Gratitude is the season's theme, but what if we are not feeling it? Elizabeth Doolin offers a prayer for when thanksgiving is hard to come by.
A catalogue of gratitude (November 17, 2024)
Brendan McLean writes on thanksgiving and Psalm 100.
“Thankful Turkeys” and Reign of Christ Sunday
How can we grasp gratitude when it feels far away, wonders Aaron Neff?
Praying for kinship on Thanksgiving
Daniel Heath pens a prayer honoring Indigenous peoples, the land, and the unifying aspects of Thanksgiving.
A Thanksgiving meal prayer — Remembering our history, praying for peace
Hunter Steinitz offers a prayer for the Thanksgiving table that remembers our history as Americans and calls on God as the giver of life, justice and peace.
A Thanksgiving mealtime prayer inspired by Psalm 104
Amanda Horan offers a prayer for the Thanksgiving dinner table that focuses on creation, community and gratitude.
Thanksgiving as a call to moral community
James Calvin Davis explores the wisdom that Christian tradition brings to American Thanksgiving, as well as the ways in this holiday might prompt us to discern the imperatives of our faith in new ways.
A Thanksgiving benediction
Katy Shevel offers a benediction to use in a Thanksgiving worship service or over your Thanksgiving meal.
A prayer of thanksgiving
Letarshia C. Robinson offers a prayer of thanksgiving that can be used as a part of a Thanksgiving worship service, a regular Sunday worship service or a blessing over a meal with your family.
Thanksgiving — Weekly Christian ed lesson
In this lesson, children will explore and practice the call to thank God for the abundant gifts we are given in Psalm 100.
How it all adds up — A sonnet of gratitude
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. — Psalm 90:12 When you three were..
To give thanks — A poem
To Give Thanks… is to remember how it feels to experience belonging, to look long around a laden table and be glad..
Simplest Gifts
These thanks we give fit best with simplest things, the ordinary benisons we scarcely note as our times go fleeting past. This..
Thanksgiving 2020: Give thanks for those who have helped us weather this pandemic
Scarcity, rather than abundance, may strike many as the keynote of Thanksgiving 2020, given the absence of family and friends who are..
Spend the holidays with your household: Population one
You’ve seen the pleas from the CDC: “Spend Thanksgiving with just your immediate household this year.” My sister called me this week and..
There’s Trouble All Around (a free hymn for Thanksgiving 2020)
There’s Trouble All Around LEONI 6.6.8.4 ("The God of Abraham Praise") There’s trouble all around; it’s hard for us to bear!..
Give thanks: A prayer
Give thanks in all circumstances. Your admonition, God, is clear, our execution of it inconsistent. Ours is a culture overflowing with discontent...
To Give Thanks…
is to remember how it feels to experience belonging, to look long around a laden table and be glad to claim a..
Prayer for Thanksgiving
God whose giving knows no bounds, your Word teaches us to give thanks in all circumstances. Today we take that instruction to..
Thanksgiving, equality and our history
Giving thanks is a fundamental practice in Christianity, including the Presbyterian Church. Ecumenical expressions of gratitude characterize American history. They include the..
Thanksgiving prayer: How can we not give thanks?
Gratitude follows grace, Lord of all creation, and evidence of your grace overflows, spills out and engulfs us. How then can we..
Inviting Jesus to Thanksgiving dinner
I don’t much like Thanksgiving. What’s not to like? There are the three F’s – food, family and football, not necessarily in..
Thanksgiving reflection
I have a vivid Thanksgiving memory that seems particularly relevant this year. My young family was living in Greenwood, South Carolina. I..
