A Thanksgiving Special: The True Meaning of Gratitude
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
A Thanksgiving Special: John talks about being thankful and interviews author and theologian Diana Butler Bass on gratitude and what it means to be truly grateful. He promotes her Substack "The Cottage" and also her book "Grateful : The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks". Then regulars Rhonda Hansome, Keith Price, and professor Corey Brettschneider join him for a special round-table discussion on what we have to be thankful for.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the John Fugel-Sang Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Gratitude is resilience of sorts, the defiance of kindness in the face of anger, of connection |
| 0:18.4 | in the face of division, and of hope in the face of fear. |
| 0:21.4 | Gratitude empowers us. It makes joy and love possible. It |
| 0:25.8 | rearranges the way we see and experience what is all around us. Gratitude makes all things new. |
| 0:31.8 | So says our guest, one of my favorite guests anytime we can drag |
| 0:36.0 | her onto the show. Diana Butler Bass is an author, a speaker, an independent scholar, |
| 0:40.0 | specializing in American religion and culture. She holds a PhD in |
| 0:43.9 | religious studies from Duke University and she's the award-winning |
| 0:46.4 | author of 10 books including Grounded Finding God in the World a Spiritual |
| 0:50.6 | Revolution, Christianity after religion, the end of church and the birth of a new spiritual |
| 0:55.6 | awakening, and more recently one of my favorite books in a book that ties into the holiday nicely, |
| 1:00.5 | grateful, the transformative power of giving thanks. |
| 1:04.2 | It's always a pleasure to welcome back. |
| 1:06.1 | Dr. Diana Butler Bass, hello. |
| 1:09.0 | Hi John, it's really wonderful to be with you and this is my favorite holiday. |
| 1:14.0 | Why is that? |
| 1:16.0 | Oh, I just think that it is a great thing to be able to have a celebration of gratitude. |
| 1:22.0 | You know, a lot of gratitude. |
| 1:23.0 | And a lot of people talk about it being about pilgrims and Indians, |
| 1:26.2 | and it's all very fraught when we look at the mythological history |
| 1:31.6 | of Thanksgiving. But the very notion that we live in a country |
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