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Caring for a resilient yet vulnerable part of creation, hunter-conservationists lead the charge to restore the wild turkey.
The new film Wake Up Dead Man brings the Knives Out mystery series into the church.
From writer Yi Ning Chiu: A friend’s request challenged my belief that money guarantees a good life.
How youth ministry can transform urban congregations.
Chris Butler sees the current identity crisis among both major parties in the US as a chance for Christian soul-searching and moral clarity.
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From Black church editor Haleluya Hadero: While I was growing up as an Ethiopian immigrant in Pennsylvania, Thanksgiving wasn’t a big deal in my house. Sometimes, extended family members put on a feast. But because many of us saw it as more American than religious, there wasn’t as much hustle and bustle compared to global holidays like Christmas.
As I got older, however, Thanksgiving began to steal more of my affections. In college, friends and I would throw friendsgiving meals—with American and international dishes—just before each of us would go visit our families.
After I got married to my American husband a few years ago, the cross-cultural Thanksgiving theme kept running in our family. Next to my mother-in-law’s turkey and mashed potatoes, you’ll often find injera, doro wat (a red chicken stew), or my mother’s traditional Ethiopian bread. Close friends bring dumplings, mapo tofu, or Cantonese egg tarts. My mother-in-law isn’t Greek, but we love her moussaka so much that it has become a Thanksgiving staple!
The tradition will continue this year, creating unconventional—yet delicious—plates. No matter how classic or eclectic your meal, I hope you have a Happy Thanksgiving.
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Today in Christian History
November 26, 1827: Ellen Gould White, American Christian spiritual author and pioneer, is born. Along with other Sabbatarian Adventist leaders such as Joseph Bates and her husband James White, she helped form what became known as the Seventh-day Adventist Church (see Issue 61: A History of the Second Coming)
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As we enter the holiday season, we consider how the places to which we belong shape us—and how we can be the face of welcome in a broken world. In this issue, you’ll read about how a monastery on Patmos offers quiet in a world of noise and, from Ann Voskamp, how God’s will is a place to find home. Read about modern missions terminology in our roundtable feature and about an astrophysicist’s thoughts on the Incarnation. Be sure to linger over Andy Olsen’s reported feature “An American Deportation” as we consider Christian responses to immigration policies. May we practice hospitality wherever we find ourselves.
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