Religion
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Living on Purpose: Desiring God more than anything in the world
For those who ponder the requirements for developing and maintaining a deeper relationship with God, we must include some vital components. One of the most critical is desire.
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Pastor Bo: Like the change in seasons, it’s time for a cooling
I slid the 3-inch bolt through the bottom hole of the 10-inch terra cotta pot, then put five large washers down onto the bolt.
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Living on Purpose: The unthankful heart overlooks life’s blessings
I've always enjoyed Thanksgiving, but many times I become distracted from the intended purpose.
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Major religions don’t oppose COVID-19 vaccines, despite Chattanooga area employees seeking religious exemptions
The arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine, now with mandates at some workplaces, is causing a spike in workers seeking religious exemptions nationwide and among some of the Chattanooga area's biggest employers.
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Living on Purpose: Land of the free and home of the brave
As a chaplain for a veterans health-care facility and an honor guard that recognizes military personnel, I'm devoted to respecting those who were willing to give their lives for our freedom.
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Pastor Bo: Americans should always choose thankfulness
It was the first year of our marriage, and Dana and I had gone to Trinidad to visit her parents, who were then missionaries to that island. While we were there, we made a day trip to the much smaller island of Tobago, one of the most beautiful jewels on Earth. But as with most tourist destinations, there was the facade that outsiders see and the reality that the people who live there know all too well.
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BreakPoint: Buster Posey retires from baseball
Earlier this month, at 34 years old, baseball great Buster Posey retired. Drafted by the San Francisco Giants, he went on to help win three World Series. Retiring means leaving a $22 million paycheck on the table and likely a multimillion-dollar extension to keep him in the Bay area for the rest of his career. Instead, the future Hall of Famer has exchanged his cleats and catcher's mitt for bibs, high chairs, two sets of twins and family life.
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Chattanooga area Methodists use time to reflect amid delayed schism over approach to LGBTQ community
Out of the darkest moments of her life, the Rev. Caryl Griffin Russell began thinking about how systems change. The retired Methodist minister and former nurse lost her 22-year-old daughter in 1997 after a preventable exposure to a virus in a research lab.
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Pastor Bo: Dear Lincoln Project, about that ninth commandment…
While faith and politics often intersect, and while the Bible itself says a great deal about politics and politicians, I try very hard never to turn this faith column into a political column. But with the Virginia elections already passed, I believe I can now weigh in on a particular moral aspect of it without risking that.
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Living on Purpose: Making the effort to do what is right
In Luke 10:30-37, a certain lawyer approaches Jesus with a spiritual question: "What shall I do to inherit eternal life?"