Religion
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BreakPoint: Beijing’s Nebuchadnezzar moment
Increasingly threatened with a future of economic and cultural instability, the Chinese government is working hard to guarantee public safety and deliver the kind of "domestic tranquility" that only comes by limiting freedoms.
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Chattanooga megachurch joins fight against Planned Parenthood influence
A nondenominational megachurch near downtown Chattanooga has entered the local fight against Planned Parenthood, with a petition opposing any influence by the organization on local schools and a fundraising campaign to provide abortion reversal treatments.
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Secret recordings show Southern Baptist dispute on sexual abuse
Releases of leaked letters and secret recordings from within the Southern Baptist Convention intensified Thursday as critics sought to show top leaders were slow to address sexual abuse in the nation's largest Protestant denomination and worried more about its reputation and donations than about victims.
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Pastor Bo: Reject anyone who hates others because of their race
While the thoughts of most of the nation were on Memorial Day, a different type of thought process was playing out in Tulsa, Oklahoma, over that same weekend as armed Black nationalist militia groups descended on the area.
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BreakPoint: Christianity is not a means to an end
A Gallup poll released in May documented a massive 20-year drop in church attendance in America.
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Living on Purpose: An attitude of gratitude leads to contentment
Over a 12-year span at UCLA, American college basketball coach John Wooden won 10 national championships, and the university's total of 11 remains a record today.
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Pastor Bo: A pastor’s wife is like a flower blooming in the desert
When I say that I am writing this column from a desert place, please understand that I am literally writing this column from a desert place.
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Living on Purpose: The way we live is our Christian message
I was raised going to church and fell into the habit of thinking that an hour on Sunday was fulfilling my duty and earning points with God.
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BreakPoint: Discoveries that call for a God hypothesis
Richard Dawkins and other "new atheists" have long insisted that science has excluded the possibility of a creator or has, at least, rendered it unnecessary.
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BreakPoint: How to stay in church when the world says leave
For the first time since the Gallup organization started to track the data, fewer than 50% of Americans now belong to a church, synagogue or mosque.
