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French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte have filed a US defamation lawsuit against an influencer and podcaster who has said France’s first lady “is in fact a man.” If the Macrons had remained silent, their decision not to defend themselves could be interpreted as a lack of defense, but choosing not to hold their accuser accountable could only embolden and escalate such accusations. This is the conundrum of digital media. The good news is that this issue leads to news that is good in a new way today.

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Ozzy Osbourne died yesterday at the age of seventy-six. To understand the cultural insight Osbourne’s career illustrates, ask yourself whether his music celebrating themes of horror, doom, paranoia, drug abuse, and the occult would have been popular (or even possible) twenty years earlier. In other news, Monday was the one-hundredth anniversary of the Scopes Monkey Trial conclusion. At issue was Tennessee’s law prohibiting the teaching of evolution in public schools. In many ways, the cultural conflict revealed by the trial has been exacerbated by the normalization of evolutionary theory that it produced for many.

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Last night, Stephen Colbert responded to CBS’s shocking announcement that The Late Show will end next May. In his monologue, he asked rhetorically, “How could it be purely a financial decision if The Late Show is No. 1 in ratings?” Many are asking the same thing, pointing to shifts in mainstream media from liberal to conservative bias. However, studies show that younger viewers are turning to streaming, video, and social media, while older viewers are staying with broadcast television. So the story could be more about demographics than cultural transformation. Therein lies the larger point I want us to consider today.

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To no one’s surprise, Scottie Scheffler won The Open Championship yesterday in convincing fashion. His victory was so dominant that, according to CNN, it left his rivals “awestruck.” Before the tournament, Scheffler said, “This is not a fulfilling life. It’s fulfilling from the sense of accomplishment, but it’s not fulfilling from a sense of the deepest places of your heart.” Scheffler’s statements regarding the ultimate value of the game he plays garnered national coverage. An article in the New York Times even called him “Nihilist Scottie.” Why would someone call him that? And why is the question relevant for you and me today?

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Last night, President Trump directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to ask a court for the release of all relevant grand jury testimony from the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein. Bondi responded that she is “ready to move the court tomorrow to unseal the grand jury transcripts.” Meanwhile, people are responding to the Central Texas floods with a massive outpouring of financial support and personal engagement. This should not surprise us: Americans are by far the most generous people in the world. What explains this?

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Last month, Iowa passed a new law that requires public schools to teach prenatal development classes as part of their standard curriculum. As the bill’s authors describe, the hope is that these materials will help to demonstrate “the humanity of the unborn child by showing prenatal development, starting at fertilization.” While much of the discussion and debate about abortion treats the concept as a binary choice between the pro-life and pro-choice positions, the reality is that most people see the subject with a far greater degree of nuance. How can we bring biblical clarity to the conversation today?

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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 subscribing to our newsletter.

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Denison Forum resources addressing abortion and the pro-life movement:

• An archive of our abortion-related articles and resources
• What does the Bible say about abortion?
• On the pro-life movement and politics
• When abortion goes from tragic to barbaric
• Why America’s primary abortion pill is far more dangerous than advertised

According to the Dallas Morning News, Chip and Joanna Gaines’ new show Back to the Frontier “follows three families in the Canadian Rockies as they navigate a technology-free, laborious summer meant to mimic the lifestyle of 1880s homesteaders.” Among the participants is a gay couple from Dallas who share a cabin with their adopted ten-year-old twin sons. The key to our response is “speaking the truth in love.” How can we do this effectively in our post-Christian culture?

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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 subscribing to our newsletter.

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Denison Forum reources on today's topic:

“What does the Bible say about homosexuality?” and other resources by Dr. Jim Denison

“What do Cal Raleigh and Superman have in common?” by Dr. Jim Denison

The Jeffrey Epstein files saga is leading the news again, fueling distrust in government and media at a time when fewer Americans than ever say they trust either. Now comes news that Ghislaine Maxwell is willing to tell Congress what she knows about Epstein. As people rewatch old TV shows and pull back from risk, we're living in a culture that values this life more than ever—because for many, this life is all there is. But “to be like Christ is why we exist,” and “nothing less will give our lives purpose and joy.” The question is: how much like Jesus do you want to be?

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On July 13, 2024, twenty-year-old sniper Thomas Crooks fired an AR-15-style rifle from the roof of a building around four hundred feet from the stage where Donald Trump was holding a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The day after the shooting, Mr. Trump told journalist Salena Zito, “It was the hand of God. He was there.” A month after returning to the White House, he said, “I feel, I feel even stronger. I believed in God, but I feel much more strongly about it.” Yesterday’s anniversary of the shooting raises again the question: Did God save Mr. Trump's life?

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For reasons Dr. Denison explain in detail in this Denison Forum website article, he believe that both middle positions are correct: God honors our free will and the natural laws he created, but so metimes intervenes with both.

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Last month, an imposter created a Signal account pretending to be US Secretary of State Marco Rubio using the display name “[email protected].” The perpetrator then used AI to simulate Rubio’s voice and contacted three foreign ministers, a US governor, and a member of Congress. Global cybercrime is projected to cost upwards of $10.5 trillion this year, and that number is only going to rise as technology improves. But while we are increasingly aware of the risks AI poses for crime, large parts of our society seem willing—and even excited—to welcome its use in ways that could pose an even greater risk.

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