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Jerry Earl Johnston, two-time winner of the national Wilbur Award for religious columns, is a native of Utah. He and wife Carol have a blended family of five children.

He is currently a member of the Sycamore Spanish Language Branch in Brigham City, where he works with translation, clerking and music. He has been with the Deseret News for 31 years, writing a column of one ilk or another for most of his career.

You can reach him via e-mail at jerjohn@desnews.com.

 
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