The Daily Article

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 m...

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 practic...

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 "th...

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...

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 Gra...

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...

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 unde...

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...

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 resu...

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 assertio...

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...

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 a...

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. Autho...

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 B...

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 Nouwe...

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...

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...

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 fo...

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 Elk...

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...

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 co...

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 Rebi...

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...

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...

Amelia Anisovych, the seven-year-old Ukrainian girl who went viral after singing “Let It Go” in a Kyiv bomb shelter, made headlines again after singing the Ukrainian national anthem in a Polish arena. She is one of the 3.5 million Ukrainian refugees as a result of Russia’s invasion of their country. In The Daily Article for March 24, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison also describes the rise of alcohol-related...