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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

A ten-point buck sought shelter inside a Southern Michigan church on Monday, the

opening day of the state's firearm deer hunting season. A video shows the animal wandering around

the church auditorium, at one point climbing stairs to a balcony. It eventually leapt through a window

and back out into the wild.

Unfortunately, not everyone is finding the same sanctuary inside churches these days.

A Barnag Group survey released Tuesday reports that 38% of U.S. pastors have considered quitting

full-time ministry in the past year.

This percentage is up nine points since Barna asked church leaders the same question at the beginning of 2021.

A Barna official explains all the chaos, all the pressure, the magnifying glass of social media,

the pandemic, the politics, the hyper-digital

context, it makes sense that you have a lot of pastors saying, is this really what I signed up for?

Is this what I was called into? Pastors are not alone in needing help these days. Federal researchers reported yesterday that more than 100,000 Americans died of drug overdoses

in the 12-month period ending in April, up almost 30% from the prior year.

Overdose deaths have doubled since 2015, and now surpass the toll of car crashes and guns combined.

We live in the most advanced technological age in history.

We have more wealth and means than previous generations could have imagined.

What then explains the anxiety epidemic of our age?

Dr. Ben Carson was the keynote speaker for the 20th annual Celebrating Life Luncheon in Dallas

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