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Expressing Thanks Is Its Own Reward

By Robin Bates | Published: November 23, 2023

Thanks giving is not (as Milton’s Satan) contends, a burdensome debt but the key to deep joy.

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Lift We Up Our Songs of Praise

By Robin Bates | Published: November 24, 2021

Dunbar has a luminescent Thanksgiving poem, which is all the more impressive given the racism he faced as a Black man.

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Gratitude, God’s Great Gift

By Robin Bates | Published: November 28, 2010

  Spiritual Sunday I have been teaching Paradise Lost this past week so, in the spirit of the Thanksgiving weekend, I share here some of Milton’s insights into gratitude. Let me start with the prayer of gratitude that Adam and Eve offer up to God in Book IV. They have been working in the garden […]

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