Dear Friend,

On this Thanksgiving Day, I want to wish you and your loved ones a joyous celebration. Today we pause to praise God for his many blessings—for our lives, families, and country, and for the goodness of creation which is never spent.

Creation’s goodness is profoundly manifest in the human person, whose rights are rooted in the dignity of his nature as known through the natural law, and protected by human law. But natural law cannot be truly known—or fully lived out—without giving due honor to the author of the natural law. Which is why good human law will always require a “religious and moral people,” as John Adams observed.

The early American settlers knew that their experiment in ordered liberty depended for its success on God, and that religion should have a role in rightly ordered public life. For this reason, they set aside a day to thank God for his blessings—rendering unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s

EPPC is dedicated to reminding America’s leaders that we are one nation under God, that human law should embody natural and eternal law, and that all of us owe God the greatest of thanks. It's why we joyfully continue in our own era the pilgrims’ prayer of gratitude.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!