On Monday, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of Harold Shurtleff, deeming that the city of Boston discriminated against him because of his "religious viewpoint" for seeking to fly a Christian flag outside of City Hall. On this National Day of Prayer, Dr. Jim Denison discusses Justice Anthony Kennedy's flip on abortion, the way Christians sometimes make idols from prayers, and encourages believers to pray for Americans to know God. Author: Dr. Jim Denison Narrator: Chris Elkins Subscri...
May 05, 2022•9 min
The fallout from the leaked draft revealing the Supreme Court's ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade is dominating the news. In The Daily Article for May 4, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison describes recent ramifications, asks who prompted the leak and why, cites Michael Stokes Paulsen's article as a "brilliant case for life," and urges Christians to advocate for living human beings—including unborn children. Author: Dr. Jim Denison Narrator: Chris Elkins Subscribe: http://www.denisonforum.org/subscribe...
May 04, 2022•8 min
The Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, according to what POLITICO calls "an initial draft majority opinion." In The Daily Article for May 3, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison summarizes the leaked draft and legal precedents, asks if this would end abortions in America, and offers three ways to minister to women considering abortion. Author: Dr. Jim Denison Narrator: Chris Elkins Subscribe: http://www.denisonforum.org/subscribe...
May 03, 2022•9 min
Country singer Naomi Judd died on Saturday, April 29, 2022. The following day, she and her daughter were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. Naomi's famous daughters, singer Wynonna Judd and actress Ashley Judd, tweeted that "we lost our mother to the disease of mental illness." In The Daily Article for May 2, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison notes that depression now affects one-third of American adults, lists biblical figures and "seven saints" who wrestled with depression and doubt, and shares...
May 02, 2022•9 min
Yesterday was Yom HaShoah, the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel, when the country comes to a standstill at 10 a.m. to honor the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis in World War II. In The Daily Article for April 29, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison shares the story of Gerda Weissmann, who married Kurt Klein, an American soldier who found Gerda after she'd endured six years of Nazi terrorism. Dr. Denison also relates why German churches flew Nazi flags and then asks Christians if we may have a ...
Apr 29, 2022•10 min
The New York Times is profiling a movement called "fictosexuals." These are people who consider themselves married to a fictional character, whether a doll, a character in a video game, or a similar "person." In The Daily Article for April 28, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers this and other news stories as representative of our current sexualized culture and urges Christians to "flee from sexual immorality" (1 Corinthians 6:18) while also using the culture where we can (1 Corinthians 9:22) to spe...
Apr 28, 2022•8 min
Now that Twitter has accepted billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's $44 billion bid to buy Twitter, many are wondering if his aspirations to reform the "digital town square" are good news for free speech. In The Daily Article for April 27, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison refers to Christians' call to be "the light of the world" and why John Adams wrote that the Constitution "was made only for a moral and religious people." Author: Dr. Jim Denison Narrator: Chris Elkins Subscribe: http://www.denisonforum.or...
Apr 27, 2022•8 min
Bremerton football coach Joe Kennedy was fired in 2015 after refusing to stop praying at the fifty-yard line following his team's football games. His religious liberty case was heard before the Supreme Court yesterday. In The Daily Article for April 26, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers Coach Kennedy's fight, the latest cultural euphemism disguising immorality, and how Christians can practically fight against the sins they persistently struggle against. Author: Dr. Jim Denison Narrator: Chris Elki...
Apr 26, 2022•8 min
Emmanuel Macron won reelection in France's presidential contest yesterday, defeating far-right rival Marine Le Pen. However, in this story and others recently in the news (like alligators "taking lonely strolls in Florida" and why Mike Tyson punched a man on a flight), there's more to the story. In The Daily Article for April 25, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison looks at the fact that "there is often something we don't know about people or events that puts them in a new light," then discusses how Christian...
Apr 25, 2022•9 min
Good news in the news today includes a Pennsylvania school board rejecting the formation of an After School Satan Club, a twelve-year-old woodworker who's raised more than $109,000 for Ukrainian children, and a Tennesse city rejecting an atheist group's demand to remove crosses that had been in place since the fifties. In The Daily Article for April 22, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison then discusses practical ways for Christians to be cultural missionaries. Author: Dr. Jim Denison Narrator: Blake Atwood S...
Apr 22, 2022•7 min
In response to The Walt Disney Company speaking out on the Parental Rights in Education bill (the "Don't Say Gay" law), Florida lawmakers are voting to end Disney's self-governing privileges in the Orlando area. In The Daily Article for April 21, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison asks, "When fighting a 'culture war,' should we be passivists or activists?" He cites how Billy Graham handled his personal critics, Yuval Levin's article "How to Curb the Culture War," and three biblical directives for Christians ...
Apr 21, 2022•9 min
Russian forces seized the city of Kreminna, which appears to be the first city confirmed to have fallen since Vladimir Putin's forces launched a "new phase of war." In The Daily Article for April 20, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison also writes on the threat of AI, four reasons teens are depressed, and how Christians can respond biblically and redemptively to the challenges of our day. Author: Dr. Jim Denison Narrator: Chris Elkins Subscribe: http://www.denisonforum.org/subscribe...
Apr 20, 2022•9 min
Yesterday, a federal judge in Florida sided against the CDC, striking down the national mask mandate. Her ruling freed airlines, airports, and mass transit systems to make their own decisions about mask requirements. In The Daily Article for April 19, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers our collective trust in the government, cites Jonathan Haidt's Atlantic essay that suggests social media is undermining our democracy, and then challenges Christians to think biblically and act redemptively in respon...
Apr 19, 2022•10 min
Good news in the news: the community fridge movement is providing free food to those in need, and a 19-year-old man with autism was reunited with his family after having disappeared for almost three years. In The Daily Article for April 18, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers how we are all tied together and why the little-known Bible story of Judas called Barsabbas matters to Christians today. Author: Dr. Jim Denison Narrator: Chris Elkins Subscribe: http://www.denisonforum.org/subscribe...
Apr 18, 2022•9 min
The flagship Russian warship Moskva sank into the Black Sea yesterday. Whether it was destroyed by a Ukrainian missile or from a fire that broke out on the cruiser, the result is the same. In The Daily Article for Good Friday, April 15, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison uses this news story and others as a foundation to ask: Why was Jesus crucified on Good Friday? Could he have died any other way and the result have been the same? Author: Dr. Jim Denison Narrator: Chris Elkins Subscribe: http://www.denisonf...
Apr 15, 2022•10 min
Gateway Church has helped around four hundred Ukrainian refugees relocate and are in the process of helping to relocate hundreds more. This as reports say 1.4 million Ukrainians are without running water and 4.6 million are at risk of losing their water supply. In The Daily Article for April 14, 2022, Maundy Thursday of Easter week, Dr. Jim Denison cites Wallace B. Henley's surprising assertion about why Russians are committing atrocities in Ukraine and encourages readers to remember the weight ...
Apr 14, 2022•9 min
Ten people were hit by gunfire and another thirteen injured after a man set off smoke grenades and fired a handgun in a crowded Brooklyn subway train yesterday. In The Daily Article for April 13, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers this news story and many others while also discussing "Silent Wednesday," the day during Easter week in which the Bible records no activities by Jesus. Citing John Mark Comer's book The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry , Dr. Denison also asks if Christians should follow Jesu...
Apr 13, 2022•8 min
Nabisco, Oreo's parent company, has released a gay-affirming short film—another example of the escalation of unbiblical sexual morality in American culture. However, God is still using Christians to change the culture, like Masters winner Scottie Sheffler who said, after his win, "My identity isn't a golf score." In The Daily Article for April 12, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison also looks at the brilliant mind of Jesus, the power of the Holy Spirit, and how Christians can change the culture today. Author...
Apr 12, 2022•9 min
The University of Texas will allow students to live together regardless of their gender or sexual identity. Major League Baseball will allow pitchers and catchers to use technology intended to prevent sign stealing. And Scottie Scheffler won yesterday's Masters tournament. In The Daily Article for April 11, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers these stories as metaphors for our culture today. Author: Dr. Jim Denison Narrator: Chris Elkins Subscribe: http://www.denisonforum.org/subscribe...
Apr 11, 2022•9 min
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is joining the board of Twitter. In The Daily Article for April 8, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison suggests that this notable addition is vital not just for our news consumption but for the very future of our society. He also points to Carl R. Trueman's new book, Strange New World , for answers to how our culture arrived at its current identity crisis and also to the Bible's admonition that "the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers." Author: Dr. Jim...
Apr 08, 2022•9 min
Bonhams Space History sale will offer lunar dust collected by Neil Armstrong from the Apollo 11 mission. You can own your own (tiny) souvenir from the moon for a mere $800,000 to $1,200,000. In The Daily Article for April 7, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers the size of our universe, the message we've received "from beyond ourselves," the scientific benefits of gratitude, and Henri Nouwen's assertion that we are loved and accepted long before others can love or accept us. Author: Dr. Jim Denison N...
Apr 07, 2022•9 min
Less than fourteen months after a car crash that nearly led to the amputation of his right leg, Tiger Woods announced that he will play in the Masters tournament this year. In The Daily Article for March 6, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison sees Woods' decision as an illustration of what Carolyn Chen calls our "collective worship of work" and asks how Christians can convince secularized people to choose God's grace over our cultural worship of work. Author: Dr. Jim Denison Narrator: Chris Elkins Subscribe: ...
Apr 06, 2022•7 min
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has called Russia's killing of its civilians genocide. US president Joe Biden has called for Russian president Vladimir Putin to be tried for war crimes. And NYT columnist Thomas Friedman is calling the Russia-Ukraine war "World War Wired" due to its cyberattacks. In The Daily Article for April 5, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison discusses these issues, the increasing divide between political parties in the US, how Arabs and Jews are working together in Israel, Jesus'...
Apr 05, 2022•8 min
What did Denzel Washington do right after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars? What did North Carolina men's basketball head coach Hubert Davis say about his faith? In The Daily Article for April 4, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers the days news from a biblical perspective, wonders about our "compassion fatigue," and shares the inspiring story of a Muslim sheikh who's led four hundred other sheikhs to Christ. Author: Dr. Jim Denison Narrator: Chris Elkins Subscribe: http://www.denisonforu...
Apr 04, 2022•8 min
The news, like life, is unpredictable, from Bruce Willis retiring to passports soon allowing a gender X designation. In The Daily Article for April 1, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers Psalm 14:1 in light of April Fool's Day, quotes the words of an atheist now actively searching for God, and highlights new World #1 golfer Scottie Scheffler's faith. Author: Dr. Jim Denison Narrator: Chris Elkins Subscribe: http://www.denisonforum.org/subscribe...
Apr 01, 2022•9 min
According to the Washington Post, twenty-nine text messages obtained by the Post and CBS News show that Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, Ginni Thomas, "repeatedly pressed White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election." Consequently, some Democrats are calling Thomas to recuse himself on certain cases or even to step down from the Supreme Court. In The Daily Article for March 31, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison explains the issue, then offers...
Mar 31, 2022•8 min
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law the “Don’t Say Gay” bill on Monday, March 28, 2022, which bans classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity for Kindergarten through third grade. In The Daily Article for March 30, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison discusses what the legislation does and doesn't do, identifies the larger cultural narrative this controversy represents, and concludes with two biblical principles that apply to us all. Author: Dr. Jim Denison Narrator: Chris Elkin...
Mar 30, 2022•8 min
A “massive great white shark” known as Scot has been seen off the Florida Gulf Coast. In The Daily Article for March 29, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison uses this as a metaphor for the horrific invasion of Ukraine and considers three articles that seek to answer: How will the war in Ukraine end? Dr. Denison looks at the works of David Remnick in “What Is Putin Thinking,” Andrew Sullivan in “The Strange Rebirth of Imperial Russia,” and Jonathan Tepperman in an interview with Alexander Gabuev. Author: Dr. J...
Mar 29, 2022•6 min
Prior to winning the Oscar for Best Actor, Will Smith ran up on stage after Chris Rock had made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Smith slapped Rock. In other attention-grabbing news, the war in Ukraine continues, as do efforts to help, such as Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov stating that he would auction off his Nobel Peace Prize to help Ukrainian refugees. In The Daily Article for March 28, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers these stories and more as evidence of our human frail...
Mar 28, 2022•8 min
As half of all Ukrainian children are reported to have been displaced due to the Russian invasion of their country and the US prepares to accept 100,000 Ukrainian refugees, the tragedies of our day can seem insurmountable. Can one person truly make a difference? In The Daily Article for March 25, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison offers the only way to “find life and flourishing” and reminds Christians of our ability to change the world because of the One who changed us. Author: Dr. Jim Denison Narrator: Ch...
Mar 25, 2022•9 min
