4 killed, including NYPD officer, in Manhattan shooting
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🗓️ 29 July 2025
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Summary
A gunman armed with an assault-style rifle walked into a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper last night and began firing. He killed four, including a New York police officer. The news has been filled with such tragedies in the last few days. However, the cultural prism we have inherited competes with the sanctity of human life and the solidarity of our race. From Socrates to today, we’ve been taught that truth is individual. In such a worldview, it can be easy to care personally about the news in direct proportion to its perceived personal relevance. But this transactional approach to hurting people is not the spirit of Jesus. Today, we discuss the best way we can love others with a heart after Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. It's Tuesday, July the 29th, 2025, and this is the Daily Article podcast from Denison Forum, written by cultural theologian Dr. Jim Denison. I'm Chris Elkins, narrator. |
| 0:16.6 | A gunman armed with an assault rifle, walked into a midtown Manhattan skyscraper last night, and began firing. |
| 0:24.6 | He killed New York City Police Officer Dideroul Islam, a father of two young boys who was expecting a third child with his wife. |
| 0:32.6 | The gunman fatally shot two others as well and critically wounded another. He then rode the elevator up to the 33rd floor where he killed a fourth person before shooting himself in the chest. |
| 0:44.5 | As of Monday night, police did not know the shooter's motive, but said he had a documented history of mental illness. |
| 0:51.4 | The last few days have been filled with such tragedies. A gunman opened fire |
| 0:55.9 | Monday morning outside the largest casino in Reno, Nevada, killing three people and wounding |
| 1:01.4 | three others before police shot and arrested him. The suspect remains in critical condition. |
| 1:07.3 | A couple killed over the weekend on a hiking trail in Arkansas, died as heroes, according to their family, while protecting their two young daughters. |
| 1:16.2 | A manhunt continues for the suspect in the double homicide. |
| 1:20.0 | Three young men were killed and ten others injured early Sunday at a mass shooting in the Turks and Caicos Islands. |
| 1:27.3 | A stabbing in Michigan last Saturday |
| 1:29.5 | injured 11 people, and an ISIS-backed attack on a Catholic church in Eastern Congo on Sunday killed |
| 1:37.2 | at least 34 people. By now, you're undoubtedly saddened and may be praying for those affected |
| 1:43.1 | by these atrocities. But part of you may |
| 1:45.9 | also be wondering what else these stories have to do with you. This question frames my point today. |
| 1:52.2 | Yesterday marked the anniversary of the 1868 adoption of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, |
| 1:59.3 | granting citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. Constitution, granting citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in |
| 2:03.1 | the U.S., including formerly enslaved people. The amendment also reaffirmed the privileges and rights |
| 2:09.7 | of all citizens, granting them equal protection of the laws. This codified a fact, basic to human |
| 2:16.1 | identity. We were created by our father in his image, |
| 2:20.3 | according to Genesis 1, verse 27. In a sense, you and I are God's self-portraits, making us unique |
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