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Part I (00:13 - 08:44)
From Frozen TV Dinners to Turkey Ice Cream: How Turkey Turned into a Year-Round Staple of the American Diet* How the U.S. Became Turkey Nation by Wall Street Journal (Bee Wilson) * Thanksgiving Food Is Showing Up in Unusual Dishes—Turkey Ice Cream, Anyone? by Wall Street Journal (Charles Passy)

Part II (08:44 - 14:00)
‘Thanksgiving Offers a Moment to Appreciate Whatever Good This Year Wrought, Even If by Accident or Chance.’: The Emptiness of a Secular Humanist Thanksgiving* Is There a Problem With Thanksgiving? by New York Times (Pamela Paul)

Part III (14:00 - 18:59)
‘A Heart Without Thankfulness Can Never Be a Godward Heart’: The Imperative of Proper Christian Thankfulness * They Did Not Honor Him or Give Thanks—Why Thanksgiving is Inescapably Theological by AlbertMohler.com (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.) * Saying grace: How a moment of thanks, religious or not, adds meaning to our meals by Washington Post (Emily Heil)

Part IV (18:59 - 22:01)
‘Blessing and Glory and Wisdom and Thanksgiving and Honor and Power and Might be to Our God Forever and Ever!’: The Centrality of Christian Thankfulness

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