“We Have Forgotten God.” An Increasingly Divided Nation Would do Well to Carefully Meditate on the Thanksgiving Message of Abraham Lincoln
Kevin Burke, LSW In the midst of a brutal civil war, Abraham Lincoln called our nation to acknowledge the true source of all her blessings, and to heal the wounds of the Unite States of America. Sarah Josepha Hale, a 74-year-old magazine editor, wrote a letter to President Lincoln on September 28, 1863, urging him to have the “day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival.” A letter of October 1863 from Lincoln and his…