Request your copy of Wisdom Matters today! Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a meeting of Israel’s security cabinet today to vote on the Gaza ceasefire deal after Israeli and Hamas negotiators worked out their remaining differences. Biden and Trump both claim credit for helping this deal progress to where it is today. David, a warrior king famous for his battlefield triumphs, nonetheless testified in Psalm 20:7, “Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the ...
Jan 17, 2025•7 min
Request your copy of Wisdom Matters today! On Wednesday night, President Biden addressed the nation for the last time from the Oval Office, and for the first time since announcing that he was withdrawing from the election last July. Going into the speech, most expected him to focus on his accomplishments over more than five decades in government and maintain a positive tone. However, while such an account was part of his address, the most memorable elements trended toward the challenging and omi...
Jan 16, 2025•7 min
Request your copy of Wisdom Matters today! The confirmation hearing for Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, began yesterday before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Democrats grilled him, while Republicans largely seemed to indicate their support. It seems that adversity is a foundational fact in every dimension of our world. It is therefore understandable that we would see the Creator of our world in the same way. This was certainly my experience for m...
Jan 15, 2025•7 min
Request your copy of Wisdom Matters today! Article Description President Joe Biden delivered his final foreign policy address yesterday, stating that a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal was “on the brink” of being finalized. Israel and Hamas have reportedly been presented with a “final” draft of such an agreement after a “breakthrough” was reached Sunday evening following talks between Qatar’s prime minister, Israel’s intelligence chiefs, and envoys for President Biden and President-elect ...
Jan 14, 2025•7 min
Request your copy of Wisdom Matters today! Article Description More than twelve thousand structures have burned so far in California’s devastating wildfires, including many houses of worship. One was Altadena Community Church, built in the 1940s and known for its colorful stained glass. Even though the building burned, parishioners sang outdoors. “WE are the church! We can worship anywhere.” They’re right: “The God who made the world . . . does not live in temples made by man” (Acts 17:24). His ...
Jan 13, 2025•8 min
“The fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created.” That is how Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg described his company’s efforts to curtail the spread of misinformation for the better part of a decade. So, instead of an army of third-party fact-checkers, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads will move to an X-style community notes form of moderation for most of their content. About Denison Forum and The Daily Article Today's Daily Article was written ...
Jan 10, 2025•7 min
President-elect Donald Trump has been in the news a lot in recent days for controversial ideas on America’s global footprint. Meanwhile, former President Jimmy Carter lies in state at the Capitol this morning before being transported back to Georgia for internment this evening. The rancor of the political Left and Right against each other has seldom been so vividly on display at one time. Our partisan divisions are clearly reflected in a new Gallup report that shows a record-low percentage of Am...
Jan 09, 2025•8 min
Sister Inah Canabarro, the world’s oldest living person at nearly 117, is a fan of the local soccer club, which celebrates her birthday every year by decorating her room with gifts in the team’s colors. The secret to her longevity? Her faith, she says. No one can predict the future, but as technology advances, it becomes more and more tempting to lean on self-reliance as the answer to unknown futures. But there’s only One who can shape the future, and he asks for our dependence on him today. Abo...
Jan 08, 2025•7 min
Despite the obvious reality of human finitude and mortality, tech millionaire Bryan Johnson says he spends upwards of $2 million a year on an anti-aging regimen he believes is enabling his body to “achieve the lowest possible biological age.” Johnson’s story, coupled with the other news of the morning, raises a question for me: Why does an all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful God allow death? About Denison Forum and The Daily Article Today's Daily Article was written by Dr. Jim Denison and narr...
Jan 07, 2025•7 min
Officials are studying the “secret radicalization” of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the alleged New Orleans attacker. The Telegraph reports that Jabbar was “visited by IS in his dreams.” He apparently made a series of video recordings prior to the attack. In one, he said he had several dreams telling him to join the Islamic State. When I read the Telegraph story on the religious motives behind the New Orleans atrocity, I imagined many people asking, Does religion do more harm than good in the world? It’s ...
Jan 06, 2025•8 min
Christianity is once again the most persecuted religion in the world according to the latest report from the International Christian Concern. While persecution against Christians has long been a fixture of the faith in places dominated by Islamic extremism, the report found that persecution has also increased in Latin American countries like Nicaragua and Venezuela—both traditionally Christian. It’s unlikely that Christianity will reach that level of persecution in the United States and other pa...
Jan 03, 2025•7 min
A pickup truck flying an Islamic State flag plowed into a large crowd in New Orleans’s French Quarter early yesterday morning, killing at least fifteen people and injuring more than thirty in what authorities are calling a terrorist assault. If we blame God when humans misuse their God-given freedom, should we not credit him when we use such freedom for good? Today we discuss what the psalmist meant when he penned, “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble” (Psalm 46:1). In...
Jan 02, 2025•7 min
As we welcome in 2025 and a new year, we look to bizarre good luck traditions around the world, from dropping apples to wearing polka dots to hanging onions on your door. In an effort to feel more in control of life, we find comfort in the fact that Jesus’ manhood was just as human as you and I. We look today at how Jesus modeled full faith in God for bringing not good luck but God’s will to his ministry. The same is available to you and to me. About Denison Forum and The Daily Article Today's D...
Jan 01, 2025•6 min
This year opened with conflict escalating all across the world, especially in the Middle East. As we look forward to peace in the new year, we’ll look to the One who grants everlasting peace and how the Lord has provided for those who cry out for his help. In today’s article, we turn to the biblical story of Judah’s King Hezekiah and his conflict with Sennacherib, king of Assyria. King Hezekiah responded to the invasion in three ways that we can learn from in our own lives today. About Denison F...
Dec 31, 2024•7 min
Former President Jimmy Carter passed away on December 29, 2024, at the age of one hundred. He had been in and out of the hospital several times recently before deciding to spend his remaining time at home. And so Carter’s life ended much as it began: surrounded by family and friends in a small, unassuming Georgia town. What he accomplished in between, however, was truly historic. About Denison Forum and The Daily Article Today's Daily Article Special Edition was written by Dr. Jim Denison with D...
Dec 30, 2024•9 min
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Geoffrey Hinton, often called the “godfather of artificial intelligence,” is warning that AI could wipe out the human race within the next decade. He said the technology is developing “much faster” than he expected and could make humans the equivalents of “three-year-olds” and AI “the grown-ups.” In his view, “We’ve never had to deal with things more intelligent than ourselves before.” Is that so? In today’s article, we discuss the forces in our universe unknown and...
Dec 30, 2024•8 min
Last Saturday, the actor Denzel Washington received his minister’s license and was baptized. In a video he said, “It took a while, but I’m finally here . . . If [God] can do this for me, there’s nothing he can’t do for you.” Washington is right in ways we cannot begin to imagine. Today, we explore what we know of Christ’s loving, holy, unchanging nature and how it hints at all the unknown ways in which he intercedes for us every day. About Denison Forum and The Daily Article Today's Daily Articl...
Dec 27, 2024•5 min
Many churches held “Christmas Adam” services on December 23, hoping to attract attendees with pre-holiday services. This was just one of several holidays our pluralistic culture is celebrating. In today’s article, we discuss how walking by faith, in hope, will one day be proven beyond all doubt and become clear to all that Christ is Lord. About Denison Forum and The Daily Article Today's Daily Article was written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins. You can read this article on our w...
Dec 26, 2024•7 min
Millions of children eagerly awaited Santa Claus’s visit last night. If you used NORAD’s Santa tracker, you knew precisely where he was on his annual expedition. On any other night, the North American Aerospace Defense Command scans the skies for potential threats. But on Christmas Eve, at least one hundred thousand kids call into NORAD to inquire about Santa’s location, while millions more follow St. Nick’s progress via online reports in nine languages. The story points to the abiding relevance...
Dec 25, 2024•5 min
What does the popularity of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” say about our culture? Her lyrics, whimsical as they are, do express something timeless: “Santa Claus won’t make me happy with a toy on Christmas Day,” because “all I want for Christmas is you.” We are created to want more than the “toys” this world can offer, because we were created for the eternal world to come. That’s why possessions must not possess us, since nothing we can make can fill the “God-shaped emptiness” w...
Dec 24, 2024•6 min
What does the popularity of “Jesus models” say about our secularized culture? In today’s Daily Article, we discuss our quest for a “God with skin,” plus the winter solstice and the anthropic principle that demonstrates the transforming power of trusting God’s providential timing. About Denison Forum and The Daily Article Today's Daily Article was written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins. You can read this article on our website . You may also receive it in your inbox by subscribin...
Dec 23, 2024•7 min
When astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) last June, they were supposed to return home in eight to ten days. However, the vessel that transported them developed so many problems that it returned to our planet unmanned, leaving them marooned. Now NASA is reporting that the capsule that will bring them home won’t launch until late March 2025 at the earliest. By contrast, Christ traveled from heaven to our fallen planet at Christmas. The way he...
Dec 20, 2024•7 min
A church in Switzerland has created a computer-generated avatar of Jesus. St. Peter’s Chapel in Lucerne, ironically the nation’s oldest church, now has cutting-edge technology that enables people to talk with an AI version of God’s Son. However, visitors are warned against sharing personal details and informed that their interactions with the avatar are at their own risk. We need a God who will not only give us advice but actually act in our lives and our broken world on our behalf, as a blessin...
Dec 19, 2024•7 min
A church in Switzerland has created a computer-generated avatar of Jesus. St. Peter’s Chapel in Lucerne, ironically the nation’s oldest church, now has cutting-edge technology that enables people to talk with an AI version of God’s Son. However, visitors are warned against sharing personal details and informed that their interactions with the avatar are at their own risk. We need a God who will not only give us advice but actually act in our lives and our broken world on our behalf, as a blessin...
Dec 19, 2024•7 min
Canada recently released its updated statistics for how many people died last year from physician-assisted suicide, and the numbers continue an alarming trend. Canada is by no means the only country with legal euthanasia, but it is the country where the greatest number of people have chosen to end their lives through some form of physician-assisted suicide. Why do assisted suicide laws seem to be growing in popularity? And what steps, if any, are being taken to guard against abuses? A telling an...
Dec 18, 2024•8 min
The ongoing controversy over nighttime drones points to a crisis of confidence in our government, where less than one in four Americans trust the federal government and only 15 percent believe it to be transparent. As today’s Daily Article shows, such trust is vital to America’s collective future. How can leaders earn trust? By following the example set at Christmas. About Denison Forum and The Daily Article Today's Daily Article was written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins. You c...
Dec 17, 2024•6 min
Article Description For weeks, objects that appear to be drones have been seen in the night skies, primarily in New Jersey but also in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, and Ohio. Mysterious drones are being reported over American air bases in the UK and Germany as well. Some are blaming Russia, China, Iran, hobbyists, and even aliens for the strange sightings. The continuing mystery over nighttime drones highlights the finitude and frailty of humans in our fallen world....
Dec 16, 2024•8 min
Article Description Donald Trump is Time’s Person of the Year. Of course, you didn’t get a vote. In nearly every dimension of your life, you are living with the consequences of decisions you didn’t make. But God is different, in ways that can change our lives and our world. Living biblically and acting redemptively may not earn you recognition by Time magazine or the secular authorities of our culture. However, living for God in this world will lead to his declaration in the next: “Well done, go...
Dec 13, 2024•7 min
Article Description The Dallas Cowboys are having a terrible year. One play from last Monday night’s loss to the Cincinnati Bengals seemed to sum up their season: A Cowboys player deflected a Bengals punt late in the game. So, of course, one of their players touched and fumbled the ball. The Bengals recovered it, then scored a touchdown to win the game. The Dallas media and football social media have been scathing and unrelenting. Today we discuss what we can learn from situations with “unknown ...
Dec 12, 2024•7 min
Article Description Archaeologists may have found the original sarcophagus of Nicholas of Myra, the historic gift-giving figure on whom the Santa Claus tradition is based. St. Nicholas could not have imagined that he would become the roly-poly figure we call Santa Claus today, but he is part of one of many previously holy celebrations that have since fallen to secular holidays. Unlike the 4th-century saint, the Christ of Christmas is today all he has ever been and does all he has ever done. Abou...
Dec 11, 2024•7 min
