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It is something of a ritual for people of faith to go around the Thanksgiving table giving thanks for something other than the excessive amount of food they are about to consume.

These are usually hurried personal recitals with all eyes on the cooling meal. But occasionally, we manage to reach beyond ourselves and give thanks for something that impacts others.

But this year? What can we be thankful for a year after the presidential election, a year after those of us who were appalled that day are now horrified to discover it’s worse than we imagined: families wrenched apart by ICE agents, food and medical benefits cut for the most vulnerable, racism and gender discrimination becoming the norm rather than the aberration, and a national abdica

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