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Jason F. Wright's "Christmas Jars" began in 2004 with his family's change jar.

The tradition inspired a bestselling book series a film and a global movement.

Wright's new "Christmas Jars Cookbook" shares family recipes and encourages giving.

SALT LAKE CITY — Jason F. Wright's family sat at the kitchen table on Christmas Eve in 2004, around a jar filled with about $88 in change. They had been steadily filling the jar since October, adding extra change to the jar and taking a moment to pause and think about someone else each day. And now, the family was going to give the jar away.

Sitting around their table, Wright, his wife, Kodi, and his children picked out a family from their church and then left the change-filled jar on their doorstep

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