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Honoring President Ford
Torchbearer for Thanksgiving
President Gerald Ford is the 20th century torchbearer of our great national tradition of Thanksgiving.
- George Washington initiated thanksgiving at the birth of our country
- Abraham Lincoln brought gratitude back during the darkest days of the Civil War to unify our country
- Gerald Ford gave thanksgiving and gratitude new impetus as he achieved healing for our wounded nation, following the divisiveness and turmoil of the sixties and early seventies. In fact, he demonstrated the highest and finest quality of thankfulness for human beings – forgiveness.
Signing Proclamation of Thanksgiving, White House, 1974
It goes very simply: We are the children of one Creator, therefore we are brothers and sisters. As humans, we all make mistakes. Gerald Ford was incredibly aware of that. And knowing that, he also understood that brothers and sisters forgive each other’s mistakes.
If you recall a person who applied this value twenty years later, remember Archbishop Tutu and the Truth Commission in South Africa. He received the Nobel Peace Prize.
President Ford is barely remembered and yet he deserves so much more. Our future as a true Thanks-Giving Square reflects through this remarkable and underestimated man.
President Ford celebrates Thanksgiving Proclamation at Thanks-Giving Square, 1976
Children prepare to ring the Liberty Bell (replica) 1976 (U.S. 200th Anniversary)
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2010 National Day of Prayer Proclamation
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Express your thankfulness for our planet.
Be a part of our 6th Annual Expressions Competition!
Our Thanksgiving Expressions Competition 2010 is now open.
The theme this year is Thankfulness for Our Planet.
Texas K - 12 students are invited to enter in two categories: Art and Written Word. Students from outside of Texas may enter in the Written Word Category.
Information and entry forms are available here.
Entry deadline is October 20, 2010.
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Parliament of the World's Religions
Three Ambassadors from Dallas will attend the Parliament of the World's Religions, December 3-9, 2009, in Melbourne, Australia.
• Ms. Tatiana Androsov,
President and Executive Director of Thanks-Giving Square
• Rev. Bill Matthews,
Chairman of the Interfaith Council of Thanks-Giving Square
• Mrs. Norma Matthews,
Dallas Chapter, United Nations Association of the U.S.A.
Dr. Harbans Lal
The heart of all faiths and cultures converge on thanksgiving and gratitude, represented by the Glory Window in our Thanks-Giving Square Chapel
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On the 29th Anniversary of the
First Thursday in May
National Day of Prayer
A lunch with guest speaker William Lesher, Immediate Past Chair, Parliament of the World’s Religions
President Emeritus, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago on
“How America’s freedom to pray has affected the world’s freedom to pray”
The Tower Club
1601 Elm St. Ste. 4800
Dallas, TX 75201
Parking included
Thursday, May 6, 2010
12 noon
William E. Lesher is a reverend, educator and administrator, who went from being the pastor of the Reen Memorial Lutheran Church in St. Louis, to professor at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. He also headed that school as President for almost two decades, before taking on the incredible challenge of chairing the Parliament of the World’s Religions as it prepared for its once in every five years global gathering. The Parliament occurred in Chicago in 1993, Cape Town in 1999, Barcelona in 2004 and Melbourne, Australia in 2009.
As chair of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, he has dealt not only with the highest level religious authorities and governments, but also with the multi-religious and ethnic groups that the Parliament works with locally and internationally. Lesher’s special interest in ethics and the positive, fruitful and transformative dialogue between science and religion was reflected in the Melbourne Parliament’s consideration of the environment. The meeting’s theme was “Making a World of Difference: Hearing Each Other, Healing the Earth.”
The Parliament of the World’s Religions started in Chicago in 1893, with a call from America’s religious leaders to the religious leaders of the rest of the world. It resumed in 1993 and continued its legacy of international religious cooperation with Rev. Lesher as its head from 2004 through 2009.
Rev. Lesher is in the singularly perfect position to talk about how “America’s freedom of prayer has affected the world’s freedom to pray.”
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