Month: November 2025

This Land Is Their Land: The Troubled History of Thanksgiving

November 20, 2025 Messiah Community Podcasts 0:32:22

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Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony’s founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story. In March 1621, when Plymouth’s survival was hanging in the balance, the Wampanoag sachem (or chief), Ousamequin (Massasoit), and Plymouth’s governor, John Carver,…

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Do You Know the True Story of Thanksgiving?

November 15, 2025 Messiah Community Podcasts 0:30:02

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The Pilgrims’ celebration of the first Thanksgiving is a keystone of America’s national and spiritual identity. But is what we’ve been taught about them or their harvest feast what actually happened? And if not, what difference does it make? Through the captivating story of the birth of this quintessentially American holiday, veteran historian Tracy McKenzie…

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