Do not run from contempt; run toward it at full speed with your love.

Those were the words Professor Arthur C. Brooks delivered to a room of Deseret News staff and supporters, ahead of receiving the Deseret News Civic Charity Award on Wednesday.

The Deseret News reached its 175th birthday in June, and celebrated the milestone on Wednesday night with a gala in Salt Lake City.

Special guests at the gala included President Dallin H. Oaks, the First Counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Sister Kristen Oaks, Utah’s first lady Abby Cox, President and CEO of Deseret Management Jeff Simpson and many other distinguished religious, civic, and political leaders.

Brooks on politics, faith, hope and Utah

Brooks is a Harvard professor, a bestselling a

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