Thanksgiving is a time to gather with loved ones in the spirit of abundance and gratitude. However you plan to spend the November holiday this year, you may be planning to join family or friends for a ...

The holiday season, for many, is a time of gathering with family and focusing on the true meaning behind the approaching celebration. Subsequently, one reflective and thoughtful tradition that is ...

Thanksgiving is almost here and with it comes a bounty of good things like like home-cooked food (or a meal out), a gathering of loved ones and an entire day devoted to giving thanks for life's ...

Around the Christmas period, most families are preparing for the festivities by hanging decorations, planning dinner parties, ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Now, of course, in the South, a Thanksgiving blessing usually involves some extemporaneous praying by someone who knows how. But just in case a little help is needed, we have ...

Easter is on Sunday, April 20, this year. As one of the holiest days on the Christian calendar, it is a time for worship, prayer and gathering with loved ones for a special meal. To inspire your words ...

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A blessing (from to bless, Old English bleodsian or bletsian) originally meant "sprinkling with blood" during the pagan sacrifices, the Blóts (reference: AHD). A blessing, (also used to refer to ...

Most people ask for God’s blessings. Jews bless God for giving them opportunities to praise God by doing something God want’s done, like appreciating our daily activities. The interactive ...

Stopping just short of abandoning a historic barrier to religion in government activity, a deeply divided Supreme Court ruled on Monday that local governments may open their meetings with prayers that ...

Michael Baror, deputy ambassador at the Israeli embassy in Kenya (with watering can), plants a tree at the Ramogi Institute of Advanced Technology in Kisumu, Kenya. Photo by Ryan Torok With the ...