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This week, we celebrate our most Christian and theological holiday: Thanksgiving. While we associate the day with football and turkey, its roots are far grittier. The Puritans, those zealous Christians who sought to restore the church, gave us this holiday. But for them, it wasn’t just a feast; it was a celebration of their God-centered theology.

When the Pilgrims landed on Cape Cod in late 1620, they didn’t step into a paradise. They came ashore in a territory marked by tragedy, where previous explorers had been tortured and murdered. Yet, they found fields already cleared — the result of a disease that had devastated the native population. Later, they met Squanto, a man who had remarkably learned English after having been taken to England, and who returned just in time to

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