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November 27, 2025

Four more for Thanksgiving

First of all, I wish a Happy Thanksgiving to everybody. Even to those who...

November 26, 2025

A really, really long post for the eve of Thanksgiving

This iteration of our weekly reprint series starts off, I'll admit, on a rather...

November 22, 2025

As easy a way to do good as can be imagined

At Christmastime, which can sometimes become a mere orgy of consumerism and materialism, many...

November 28, 2024

Happy Thanksgiving!

I wish a Happy Thanksgiving to all of my fellow Americanos out there. And...

November 27, 2024

Thinking and Thanking

I published the Thanksgiving column immediately below in the 24 November 2011 issue of...

November 25, 2024

For Thanksgiving Week

I've long felt that American Thanksgiving tends to be a somewhat forlorn and relatively...

November 23, 2023

Giving thanks for dirt and for air

Happy Thanksgiving! Both of these columns appeared in the Deseret News in connection...

November 22, 2023

Three for the Eve of Thanksgiving

Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: "Conference Talks: From Temple...

November 21, 2023

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow

Newly posted on the website of the Interpreter Foundation: Interpreter Radio Show —...

November 20, 2023

“Both of the earth and of heaven”

I'm finally finding a few stolen moments in which to begin reading Richard...

November 24, 2022

Two final thoughts on Thanksgiving

I wrote these two columns in 2016 and 2017: It’s not insignificant...

November 24, 2022

For Thanksgiving Day

Happy Thanksgiving! I hesitated just a bit before deciding to call your...

November 23, 2022

An Atmosphere of Gratitude and Grounds for Appreciation

I wrote these two newspaper columns for Thanksgiving 2019: As we in...

November 23, 2022

“Latter-day Houses of the Lord”

Four items went up today on the website of the Interpreter Foundation. Please...

November 23, 2022

A bit more on attempts to weaponize the atrocity in Colorado Springs

I reported yesterday on the efforts of a small handful of zealous critics...

November 22, 2022

The Colorado Springs Shooter and the Church

First, though, I need to announce three new items that have gone up...

November 25, 2020

Profound Thanks and Radical Orthodoxy

In a week during which we've been encouraged to #GiveThanks by the man...

November 28, 2019

“Answering New Atheism and Seeking a Sure Knowledge of God”

I would like to call your attention to a few things from the...

November 28, 2019

George Washington, and “Gratitude for the Dirt Beneath Our Feet”

Two weeks ago, I published an article in the Deseret News with the...

November 27, 2019

Lincoln’s Original Thanksgiving Proclamation

This is the proclamation that set the precedent for America's now-longstanding tradition of...

November 26, 2019

From nearly a decade ago

This was my Thanksgiving Day column in the Deseret News for 2010: ...

November 25, 2019

Apple Pie and the Big Bang

I published this column in Salt Lake City's Deseret News on Thanksgiving Day...

November 18, 2019

Thanksgiving and the Soul’s Captain

I published the Thanksgiving column below in November 2012 in the Deseret News:...

November 18, 2019

“Science and Mormonism”

This is the first part of my two-part 2019 Thanksgiving column: "The...

November 17, 2019

Approaching the Thanksgiving Holiday

I published this column in the Deseret News for Thanksgiving 2013: It’s...