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Shortly before Queen Elizabeth II’s death was announced yesterday, a double rainbow appeared over Buckingham Palace. World leaders have since praised the Queen’s life, legacy, and Christian faith, noting her servant heart and godly character. Please see our website for more on the queen’s faith and legacy . For more biblical encouragement throughout your day, please follow me @jimdenison on Twitte...

Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, died on September 8, 2022, at the age of ninety-six. How did her Christianity influence her life and reign? Click here for a brief biography in historical context, “ The life and legacy of Queen Elizabeth II ,” by Dr. Ryan Denison. Author: Dr. Jim Denison Narrator: Chris Elkins Subscribe: http://www.denisonforum.org/subscribe

Per Gallup, at least 50 percent of the American workforce is “quiet quitting.” They are meeting their job description and nothing more. This fact reveals something deeply significant about our culture and our faith. Author: Jim Denison, PhD Narrator: Chris Elkins Subscribe: http://www.denisonforum.org/subscribe

The Walt Disney Company, through its FXX Network, is releasing an animated sitcom series called Little Demon, which features the Devil and his Antichrist daughter. The TikTok hashtag #WitchTok has 20.5 billion views. Yet Christians must beware of the dangers of stepping into any occult practices. If you’re a pastor or church leader, please consider subscribing to A Pastor’s View , our twice-a-week...

UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will be appointed as Britain’s new prime minister by Queen Elizabeth in an unorthodox location. In The Daily Article for September 6, 2022, Jim Denison, PhD, considers “the finitude of the human condition” and the sin of presumption that Christians are often tempted to commit. Author: Jim Denison, PhD Narrator: Chris Elkins Subscribe: http://www.denisonforum.org/subs...

Canadian police are searching this morning for two men suspected of stabbing at least ten people to death in a rampage that has shocked the nation. At least fifteen others were injured in the killing spree. In The Daily Article for September 5, 2022, Jim Denison, PhD, considers the fallenness and finitude of humans and the difference between mercy and grace. Visit our online bookstore today, load...

President Joe Biden delivered a speech last night from Independence Hall in Philadelphia, saying that the “soul” of the nation is under threat from MAGA Republicans. The Republican National Committee, in turn, called Mr. Biden the “divider-in-chief.” When political parties see the other as a hostile threat, how can Christians live and speak such that America can renew its moral and spiritual commi...

David Leonhardt of the New York Times recently wrote an insightful article detailing Facebook's four main problems: age, innovation, the metaverse, and antitrust issues. In Facebook's decline as a popular social media destination, Denison Forum staff writer Chris Elkins sees parallels with the church at large. Is the church too big to fail, or does the church need to assess its issues befo...

A new poll asked Americans about changes in the US political climate, including whether divisions have worsened and what they expect for the future. The divisions and distrust reflected in these polls are ominous for our future as the “United” States of America. In The Daily Article for September 1, 2022, Jim Denison, PhD, considers the plausibility of another civil war occurring in America, relat...

BeReal has exploded in popularity, partially due to its claims to defy all of the “inauthentic” parts of Instagram and TikTok. The app encourages you to take a picture of your normal life. With no ability to edit the photos, BeReal claims it can provide the fun of interacting with friends without the downsides of other social media. How does BeReal work? And does the app achieve true authenticity?...

Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, passed away yesterday at the age of ninety-one. When he came to power in 1985, he introduced key political and economic reforms to the USSR that helped end the Cold War without the firing of a single shot. For his courageous leadership, he was awarded the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize. However, many Russians today do not view him in a positive light...

A university student has raised more than $159,000 in donations to help him adopt a baby he found abandoned in a trash can while visiting his family in Haiti. Other headlines, like Serena Williams’ first-round US Open victory last night after having announced her retirement earlier this month, encourage us. But when people act in hurtful ways, we feel worse about human nature. In The Daily Article...

According to a statement by The Village Church, a woman approached pastor Matt Chandler a few months ago with “concerns about the way he was using direct messaging on social media with a woman who was not his wife.” Chandler told the church yesterday that the messages were not sexual or romantic but that they crossed a line with their “frequency” and “familiarity.” He has since been placed on a le...

A driver and monitor on a school bus in Dallas, Texas, helped save two children who were caught up and nearly swept away in the recent flooding in our area. The driver said later, “It had to be God to send me that way because I don’t normally go that way.” In The Daily Article for August 26, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison looks at the bleak state of schools resuming amid increased violence and anxiety, tur...

The war in Ukraine drags on into its sixth bloody month. Instead of a swift Russian victory as Putin expected, the conflict might continue for years. However, as Russian troops “liberate” Ukraine by shelling cities and occupying towns, the low-income Russian soldiers loot houses in suburban areas. Instead of finding a backward country in need of Russian rescue, they find the Ukrainians more well o...

President Biden announced yesterday that he would cancel $10,000 in student loan debt for Americans earning less than $125,000 per year or households earning less than $250,000. In The Daily Article for August 25, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison discusses the pros and cons of student loan forgiveness before turning to “our quest for self-advancement” and our need as Christians to lose our life for Jesus’ sa...

Technology has made it harder to escape bullies, as they can now follow you wherever you go through social media, and that's contributed greatly to higher levels of stress and less emotional margin for teens and children. And such stress is not confined to young people, with many adults now beginning to experience similar kinds of cyberbullying as the move to working remotely eliminates many o...

If Rep. Liz Cheney runs for president in 2024 against Joe Biden and Donald Trump, her effect would likely not be her intent, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. In other news, the UN is preparing to declare abortion a “human right.” In The Daily Article for August 24, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers these stories and more as he looks at how Christian truth has come to be culturally defined...

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci announced yesterday that he will step down in December as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden. The response appears to be partisan, as many Democrats praised Dr. Fauci and many Republicans criticized him. In The Daily Article for August 23, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers what the divided respon...

The former director of the CIA recently claimed that the modern-day Republican Party is the most “dangerous” political force he has ever seen. Today’s levels of political divisiveness and hatred challenge our confidence in democracy itself. In The Daily Article for August 22, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison argues that it is urgent for Christians to be part of the solution and not part of the problem, and t...

A pastor’s sermon in Kansas City went viral recently for all the wrong reasons: during his message, he lambasted his congregation for not buying him the luxury watch he had requested. But here’s the good news: the pastor later apologized for what he called his “inexcusable” remarks. In The Daily Article for August 19, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers religion as transaction and religion as relation...

A robot dog with a rocket-propelled grenade strapped to its back has been unveiled at a Russian arms fair. Two high school students in California have identified two new scorpion species (as though we needed any more). These stories and others illustrate our mortality. However, my purpose is not to depress us but to encourage us. Since we have only this day, we are free to focus fully on this day....

In light of its failed response to COVID-19, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced yesterday a “reset” that will focus on making the CDC quicker to respond to new health threats. The US Dept. of Justice is investigating the SBC. And Hillsong Church is being sued by a whistleblower. In The Daily Article for August 18, 2022, Dr. Jim also disc...

It is frustrating to face enemies we thought we had already defeated. A new study reports that even a “relatively small nuclear war” would “create a worldwide food crisis lasting at least a decade in which hundreds of millions would starve.” We thought the demise of the Cold War would lower the prospects of nuclear confrontation, but this existential and cataclysmic threat clearly persists. When w...

As a result of her opposition to the former president, Liz Cheney was defeated last night in a landslide, losing the Republican primary to Harriet Hageman, a political newcomer who was endorsed by Trump. In The Daily Article for August 17, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison also quotes from Thomas S. Kidd’s book on Thomas Jefferson, noting that Jefferson, as well as our current society, has a “dissonance betwe...