Jeffrey Peters
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Peters: Time to reclaim Thanksgiving as a call to help those who are suffering | RELIGION COMMENTARY
Thanksgiving is to be praying to God and “with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged.”
- Earlier this week, the Associated Press and other publications ran with the shocking headline “Pope Endorses Same-Sex Civil Unions” that is derived from this supposed quote: “What we have to have is a civil union law; that way they are legally covered.” If this was a real quote from Pope Francis, then there would probably be a lot of problems. However, it was not.
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- This year’s speaker is Dr. Tony Evans, a famous Christian pastor and speaker whose message can be found in print, on the radio, and on television. Originally from Baltimore, Evans lives in Dallas where he serves both as senior pastor to the Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship and as the chaplain for the Dallas Cowboys and the Dallas Mavericks.
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- As Sunday marks the beginning of Religious Freedom Week, the successor to the Fortnight for Freedom that calls on the religious to stand up for Christ.