Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Forum, and this is the Daily article for Wednesday, September 26, 2018.

Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, President Trump stated that American culture is built on, quote, deep faith.

For evidence, we could point to Rolling Stones headline. A Christian singer is bigger than Drake and Ariana Grande this week.

Lauren Daigle's new album topped records by Drake, Ariana Grande, and Nikki Minaj on the Billboard 200.

Or we could note Pew Research Center's report that more than 70% of Americans identify as Christians.

America's largest religious demographic is

evangelical Protestant at 25.4%. However, America's second largest religious demographic is

unaffiliated or religious nuns at 22.8%. This is a larger percentage than Catholic, 20.8% or

mainline Protestant, 14.7%.

As a sign of our troubled times, the Washington Post reports that homicides in Washington, D.C.

have now surpassed the number of people killed in the city in all of 2017.

As another sign of the times, a group of protesters heckled Senator Teg

Cruz and his wife inside a Washington restaurant forcing them to leave early. And authorities

say bananas donated to a Texas prison had nearly $18 million worth of cocaine hidden in the boxes.

As God's people living in a fallen world, God's word calls us to embrace a transformative balance.

We're warned to, quote, touch no unclean thing.

Isaiah 5211 quoted by Paul in 2 Corinthians 617.

Much of our culture is off limits for sincere followers of Jesus.

As D.A. Carson notes in his perceptive Christ in culture revisited, some evangelicals liken the culture to the weather.

We can't change it, so we should focus on individual souls and leave society to itself.

However, others claim that we earn the right to share Christ with people by first responding to the systemic issues they face,

poverty, sex trafficking, and so on. We must engage culture to engage those affected by culture.

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