Read the July 6, 2005, Washington Times article “Christian groups unite against worst African ills.”

Read a Nov. 22, 2012 Huffington Post story about the health benefits of gratitude.

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.