Why Gratitude Is Key To Worshiping Our Creator
While praise, joy, contrition, and love are all important affections for worship, gratitude is the most important worship affection.
The Pilgrims Gave Us Immeasurable Reasons To Be Thankful Today
While the Pilgrims gave us the first Thanksgiving, which we celebrate each year, they provided us with an even more important legacy to be celebrated, the Mayflower Compact.
Why I Still Fly An American Flag With Pride
If future generations are to look upon Old Glory and see it as a symbol of hope, freedom, and justice, we must always protect and defend what we know to be true about it.
Truckers Deserve The Nation’s Gratitude During More Than The Current Pandemic
People are suddenly thankful for truck drivers during the COVID-19 crisis, but will their gratitude last after the pandemic subsides?
Daniel Webster: America Rests Upon Gratitude For Our Government Of And For The People
‘When, from the long distance of a hundred years, they shall look back upon us, they shall know, at least, that we possessed…gratitude for what our ancestors have done for our happiness.’
What You Think You Know About America’s First Thanksgiving Is Probably Wrong
Whether we feast on turkey, seafood, or barbecue, may Thanksgiving 2019 enable us to count our blessings today, give thanks for the good in our past, and strengthen us for tomorrow.
How I Learned To Be Thankful Even For Mental Illness
Through a dark trial of my son’s mental illness, I realized suffering is an embedded feature of our fallen world. But through thanksgiving, earthly suffering is transformed, one broken heart at a time.
The Pilgrims Didn’t Invent Thanksgiving, So Stop Blaming Them And Be Grateful
We should celebrate Thanksgiving as our ancestors did, a moment to reflect on the extraordinary blessings of our time.
How Support For Socialism Arises From Ingratitude
By failing to appreciate the free market’s gift of prosperity and the American founders’ gift of liberty, we put ourselves in jeopardy.
The Left’s Spite Against Justice Kennedy Should Warn Anyone Who Tries To Please Them
The Left expected Anthony Kennedy to not only write and join progressive decisions, but also to chain himself to his chair like a protester until a Democrat won the presidency.
How To Live Thanks? By Giving
Perhaps this most American of holidays inspires us to an even higher calling—focusing not just on thanks, but on giving.
How The Civil War Gave Us Today’s Thanksgiving, And What It Can Teach Us
Our Thanksgiving celebration originated in our nation’s worst period of turmoil and bloodshed: the Civil War. Its lessons can help us today.
Meet The WWII Soldier I Remember On Memorial Day
My grandpa was a teenager when he fought in World War II. It took decades—and a conversion to Christianity—to bring him peace from his experiences with war.
Why So Many Mothers Secretly Loathe Mother’s Day
To have one day to ‘honor’ mothers is to fail to even attempt to understand all mothers do. It’s to take a gargantuan task and turn it into a tea as if somehow that makes it all worthwhile.
If You Skip The Virtue Signaling, The SAG Awards Had Much To Offer
Because celebrities often usurp the stage to march for ‘social justice,’ the whole of Hollywood is often branded as frivolous and out-of-touch. Not true.
Here’s Why It Can Never Really Be Christmas Without Children
Roger Scruton calls our gratitude for the gift of being the ‘fundamental religious truth.’ Children bring this gratitude into our lives in a singular way.
Gratitude Is A Key Disposition For Living A Graceful, Redemptive Life
Our attitude and discipline provides us with our best chance of living out this melodrama to the best of our limited ability.
Why Thanksgiving Is More Important Than Ever This Year
It’s tempting to avoid the people who annoy us, who might judge or look down on us. But Thanksgiving is about seeking peace, despite our differences.