Read a Nov. 21, 2011, article in the New York Times about gratitude and Thanksgiving.

Read Gregg Easterbrook’s Beliefnet column on gratitude research.

The White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara, Calif., offers a Thanksgiving yoga retreat at its center in the mountains.

Rabbi Goldie Milgram, founder and executive director of Reclaiming Judaism, has spoken at a Thanksgiving Spiritual Health Retreat at Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Mexico.

The interdenominational Christian Renewal Center in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon has an annual weekend retreat that features holiday dinner, inspirational speakers and children’s activities.

Kanuga is an Episcopal conference center in the mountains of western North Carolina.

Saint Christopher is an Episcopal conference center on Seabrook Island, S.C.

Scot McKnight is Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary in Lombard, Ill. He specializes in films about Jesus and the Orthodox faith. He wrote The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others (Paraclete Press, 2004) and is Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University in Chicago. He is co-editor, along with James D.G. Dunn, emeritus […]

David S. Cunningham is the author of Reading Is Believing: The Christian Faith Through Literature and Film (Brazos Press, 2002), in which he argues that reading books and seeing movies can lead Christians to a deeper faith. He is a professor of religion at Hope College in Holland, Mich.