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Chattanooga-area Baptist group helps clean up after Hurricane Ian
The storm picked up around midnight. Power was out at Lynn Landskroner's house in rural Hardee County, Florida, and as Hurricane Ian intensified, she and her husband, Michael, went into their car for protection.
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Michael Flynn’s ReAwaken roadshow recruits ‘Army of God’
By the time the red, white and blue-colored microphone had been switched off, the crowd of 3,000 had listened to hours of invective and grievance.
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BreakPoint: What James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ shows us about how worldviews can be embedded in movies
Thirteen years after it first premiered, the science-fiction movie "Avatar" was back in the theaters last month, this time to prepare us for the sequel, which is scheduled for a December release.
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Living on Purpose: Being resilient when facing life’s challenges
I was having a conversation with a good friend the other day, and he was telling me how life is becoming more difficult now that he is in his 80s.
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Pastor Bo: Christ’s forgiveness takes sinners from broken to beautiful
History is filled with accounts of what could best be described as epic interpersonal failures, instances where people got it truly, horribly wrong in how they treated each other.
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Losing our religion: Blue laws decline while deaths of despair do not
A mortal affliction affects much of America's heartland. Known as "deaths of despair," both the Rust Belt and Appalachia have seen incredible spikes in rates of addiction, overdoses, violence and suicide.
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A call for fearless parenting
After some early rough spots in life, I chose to live pretty much without fear.
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Churches defend clergy loophole in child sex abuse reporting
It was a frigid Sunday evening at the Catholic Newman Center in Salt Lake City when the priest warned parishioners who had gathered after Mass that their right to private confessions was in jeopardy.
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Pastor Bo: Jesus is why ‘the least of these’ matter the most
Having a dripping wet, naked homeless man sitting on your office couch makes for a strange sort of day that can only be described as "a strange sort of day."
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BreakPoint: Remembering Rodney Stark and his theory of religious conversion
It's tempting to think that secularized academics are too intellectual to ever come to the kind of "child-like faith" that Jesus described, or that, if they ever were to trust Christ, they'd have to abandon their academic pursuits. However, like once-liberal theologian Thomas Oden or once-radical feminist English professor Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, the case of Rodney Stark suggests otherwise. Stark's research and reading, specifically about the impact of Christianity in history, was part of what moved him to become a committed believer.
