When I was in the fifth grade, our class was picked from the whole school to present a Thanksgiving program for the community. The performance was at night in the middle school gymnasium — and it was ...

Its mention of God makes it verboten in schools today. But not too many years ago this was the season when teachers would lead their students in the great ecumenical Thanksgiving hymn, "We Gather ...

When I was a little girl, I always mixed up "We Gather Together" and "O Come, All Ye Faithful." I'd wait for the opening chords played on a piano or strummed on a guitar before I knew which words to ...

I was raised in the Methodist Church, where a favorite hymn was “We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing.” Those words came to mind, along with Matthew 18:20 (“For where two or three are ...

(RNS) — “Now thank we all our God with heart and hands and voices. Who wondrous things hath done, in whom His world rejoices.” Thanksgiving is not a Christian holy day, but a holiday in American civil ...