361. Thanksgiving

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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The first Thanksgiving was not a family meal but three days of entertainment and feasting. In today's journey back through the archives, Dr. Stephen Nichols describes these events from 1621.

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0:00.0	The Thanksgiving holiday is upon us.
0:03.6	As we've reached back into the archives,
0:05.9	we've found some episodes on Thanksgiving.
0:09.0	And so we've put them for you to listen to.
0:11.2	So as you celebrate Thanksgiving this week,
0:14.2	you can think a little bit about Thanksgiving
0:16.2	from the past.
0:17.5	And in the spirit of Thanksgiving, let me say,
0:20.2	thanks so much for listening to five minutes
0:22.9	in church history.
0:25.2	Well, happy Thanksgiving.
0:26.6	American Thanksgiving, that is.
0:29.0	In Australia, Thanksgiving is celebrated
0:31.4	on the last Wednesday of November.
0:34.8	You know, up in Canada, it gets colder there sooner.
0:37.5	So Canada celebrates Thanksgiving on the second Monday
0:41.1	in October.
0:41.9	But here in America, we celebrate Thanksgiving
0:45.3	on the last Thursday of November.
0:48.7	Well, that wasn't always the case.
0:50.8	In fact, the first Thanksgiving in New England
0:53.9	was celebrated by the New England Puritans
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