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Pastor Bo: What good are broken things? Ask God
It is Sunday afternoon as I sit at the desk in my church office and write this.
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The rise and fall of Knoxville Bishop Richard Stika
A priest called the East Tennessee bishop’s tenure a ‘yearslong cloud of gaslighting.’ Stika said he did his best.

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Breakpoint: Author of ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’ made history-changing contributions in multiple fields
On June 5, 1865, Anglican priest and polymath Sabine Baring-Gould wrote the processional hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers."
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Pastor Bo: Learning to pray in a foreign language and other random musings
It has been several months since I have taken the time to round up all of my loose mental squirrels, so here goes once again. And thank you in advance for bearing with me once again as I decidedly deviate from a singular-thought column into another set of random access musings.
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Living on Purpose: Having courage to stand for what we believe
Every summer we look forward to the Fourth of July because it's filled with fun things to do, like barbecuing, picnics, games, family gatherings, boating, camping and fireworks. Also, for many, it's usually a paid vacation day, which is always nice.
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United Methodists lose one-fifth of US churches in schism driven by growing defiance of LGBTQ bans
More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations — a fifth of the U.S. total — have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people in the nation's second-largest Protestant denomination.

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Breakpoint: Does therapy even work?
Therapy is about as much of the American experience these days as baseball, pickup trucks and apple pie.
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Living on Purpose: Being informed is not a substitute for truth
All levels of government and its ally, the mainstream media, are regularly accused of dishonesty.
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Pastor Bo: Let’s talk about being busy
From the title, you probably are pretty sure you know where this column is headed.
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Pastor Bo: History’s best scam artist is still wreaking havoc
Most scam attempts are pretty transparent; this one was better than most.