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Thanksgiving this year is a tale told through two sets of pictures.

The first is what we see in memes: a cornucopia overflowing with food and blessings. Tables filled with turkeys, yams, greens and cornbread. The concerns of the day are whether to call it “stuffing” or “dressing” and whether to watch football instead of a classic film.

The other Thanksgiving is what we’ve been seeing at our food pantries and our houses of worship and on the pages of our newspapers: a flood of families plagued by need and desperation. Children and their parents filled with hunger and fear. The concerns of the day are not about entertainment or terminology, but on surviving the cold winter ahead.

Our faith traditions instruct about the primary moral imperative

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