What Does Thanksgiving Have to do with Advent?
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Episode 3 is a reflection on our national Thanksgiving holiday and the start of the Advent Season on November 28, 2021. This year, year C in the three year lectionary brings us the words of the Prophet Jeremiah. Jeremiah relates to the people of Jerusalem, a people whose view of justice and righteousness has been torn asunder by the violence of the Babylonian Empire. During the Thanksgiving and Advent season, we are reminded of the immediacy of God's arrival. God's arrival will bring righteousness and justice to a people bereft of both. For Christians, the arrival of God's justice and wholeness is most clearly revealed in Jesus death on the cross. But if God's wholeness arrived with the cross, where is God's righteousness? For what, or to whom, ought we give thanks?
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