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The Paris Olympic opening ceremony included a depiction of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” that included drag queens, a transgender model, and a naked singer. A Paris 2024 spokeswoman said yesterday, “Clearly there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group.” However, it may have been better if an offense against the Christian faith had been intentional. About Denison F...

The 2024 Summer Olympics officially begin today and will continue until August 11. But while the Olympics will be entertaining—and the chance to root for your country always adds a level of intrigue to even the most obscure events—a recent article by Brad East on the relationship between God and the games is what’s most on my mind as the opening ceremonies draw near. About Denison Forum and The Da...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a joint meeting of Congress yesterday afternoon. Thousands of protesters against the war in Gaza converged on Washington to condemn his visit, while roughly half of House and Senate Democrats skipped his address. In an Oval Office address last night, President Biden explained his candidacy dropout as a decision to “pass the torch to a new generat...

Why has President Joe Biden not spoken publicly since it was announced last Wednesday that he had contracted COVID-19? Conspiracy theories range from hospice care to stroke to cover ups. When all truth is personal and subjective, as postmodernists have claimed for decades, we are left with a “post-truth” society in which “your truth” is as valid as “my truth.” If we want to know “the truth,” we mu...

Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle told lawmakers yesterday that the shooting was her agency’s “most significant operational failure” in decades. On the other side of the aisle, the Biden campaign has officially renamed itself “Harris for President.” In our divided political landscape, the key to finding peace and unity is to love others as Christ first loved us.  About Denison Forum and The...

President Biden announced yesterday that he is withdrawing from the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Vice President Harris. The chaos of our day is God’s invitation to trust and experience his providence so fully that we become catalysts for the moral and spiritual renewal our culture needs so desperately. Today, we discuss how we can do this most effectively. About Denison Forum and The Daily...

Former president Donald Trump officially accepted the Republican nomination last night to cap off a four-day convention in Milwaukee. Toward the beginning of his address, Trump recounted the shooting in greater detail than many expected, then throughout the rest of his address, he would periodically speak of his gratitude to the Lord and of the nation’s need for God’s help. Brushes with death ofte...

President Biden tested positive for COVID-19 yesterday, forcing him to cancel a campaign event in Las Vegas. In a new poll, nearly two-thirds of Democrats agree that Mr. Biden should withdraw, including party leaders. Today we discuss Israel’s response to times when things seemed to be spiraling out of control and the wisdom we find in Jeremiah for returning to the path of peace. About Denison For...

J. D. Vance’s nomination for vice president is being called an “only-in-America tale.” Our national ethos, as expressed in our founding declaration that “all men are created equal,” especially encourages the rise of individuals from obscurity to the highest levels of power. But recent decades have seen our nation transform from one of community values to individual values, and this reflects a deep...

When shots rang out last Saturday at a rally for former President Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, Corey Comperatore shielded his wife and daughters with his body, giving his life for his family. He was an engineer and volunteer firefighter. While none of us can know the hour of our death, we can prepare for it. Today we discuss how to choose to live as Corey Comperatore did: with sacrificial courag...

Donald Trump wrote on his social medial platform TruthSocial yesterday that it was “God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening,” allowing him to survive Saturday’s assassination attempt. The Wall Street Journal editorial board similarly wrote , “It’s nothing short of miraculous that Mr. Trump avoided death by a literal inch.” According to the New York Times, the picture of the bloodied...

Donald Trump was speaking at a campaign rally this afternoon in Butler, Pennsylvania, when a series of pops that sounded like gunshots rang out . Mr. Trump’s face and ear were bloodied as he was rushed off the stage by Secret Service agents and escorted into his motorcade. The shooting is being investigated as an attempted assassination of the former president.

The Republican Party recently released its 2024 platform, outlining its goals and priorities should the November elections go its way. While the document comprises a list of twenty promises and ten chapters that go in depth on a variety of subjects, the changes to the party’s official stance on abortion have received the most attention. Many have sought to reframe the GOP’s stance on this issue to...

Amidst all the bad news in the news this week, let’s focus today on some good news. A new study of gratitude and mortality among older adults found that those who more frequently noticed and felt grateful for positive experiences tended to live longer. As you will hear, this report is by no means an outlier. And, Scripture similarly commands us to “give thanks in all circumstances” (1 Thessalonian...

The thirty-two member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are observing its seventy-fifty anniversary this week in Washington, DC. Support for Ukraine will be an especially high priority escalated by Russia’s missile attack Monday that hit a children’s hospital and killed at least forty-one civilians. Many are focusing on President Biden’s cognitive capacities at the NATO summi...

Hurricane Beryl, the earliest Category 4 and Category 5 hurricane on record killed at least three people and knocked out power to nearly three million homes and businesses in Texas after devastating islands in the Caribbean. President Biden wrote a letter yesterday to his “fellow Democrats” stating, “I am firmly committed to staying in this race, to running this race to the end, and to beating Don...

A growing chorus is calling on President Biden to end his candidacy , and some even say he should resign from office. In normal times, I would probably be writing on Hurricane Beryl after it made landfall this morning in Matagorda, Texas; the storm is expected to cause significant flooding in the Houston area and beyond. Or I would focus on the surprising results in France’s parliamentary election...

ABC News has shifted President Biden’s interview tonight with George Stephanopoulos to primetime. According to the New York Times, he has told key allies that he knows he has only days to salvage his presidential candidacy. At the end of a week spent exploring the greatness of our nation, we see that our best and most patriotic service to our nation is for us to be a people capable of the liberty...

This Fourth of July marks the 248th anniversary of the day America’s Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress. Today, we look at statements from Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan about the uniqueness of our nation. “Liberty to all,” as Mr. Lincoln so perceptively observed, was the beating heart of the American experiment. “The concept that man was born free,” as M...

President Biden will meet with Democratic governors later today as he attempts to solidify support among his party’s top leaders after last week’s debate. This as Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas has become the first Democrat in Congress to publicly call for Mr. Biden to step down as his party’s nominee for president. While you and I can do very little to change our leaders or resolve the political tur...

The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that Donald Trump is entitled to “a presumptive immunity from prosecution for all his official acts.” However, it added that a president “enjoys no immunity for unofficial acts, and not everything the president does is official.” However, here’s the foundational issue no court or law can resolve unilaterally: whether the actions of a president—or anyone else—are m...

A poll released yesterday indicated that 72 percent of registered voters do not believe Joe Biden has the mental and cognitive health to serve as president; 49 percent said the same of Donald Trump. However, Americans can take heart that no matter who ends up winning the election this November, the only king of our nation is the law, which subjects the office of presidency to the powers of Congres...

President Biden and former President Trump held a ninety-minute debate last night at CNN’s Atlanta studios. Earlier in the day, the Supreme Court issued four significant rulings. Approval of the Court has sunk to historic lows, as has public opinion regarding the presidency. Why is this issue so critical to our future? To wrap up our week-long exploration of why God would allow suffering in the in...

Tonight’s televised presidential debate between Trump and Biden is the earliest such event in US history. Since roughly 10 percent of US voters are still undecided, tonight’s event could prove especially pivotal. In continuing this week’s discussion on how God could allow the innocent to suffer, we look at the subjective correlation between voters’ personalities and their chosen candidates along w...

A spokesperson for Donald Trump said Mr. Trump is “knowingly going into a hostile environment” for tomorrow night’s presidential debate. Mr. Trump’s campaign is warning of a “three against one” ambush that can only favor President Biden. Of course, if the debate were being hosted on a network and by moderators known for conservative bias, Mr. Biden’s campaign might be issuing similar statements. L...