A girl and her pet hamster: Half of Ukraine's children have been displaced by war
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 25 March 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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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 ability to change the world because of the One who changed us.
Author: Dr. Jim Denison
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Friday, March the 25th, 2022. |
| 0:09.1 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:14.5 | 10-year-old Zlada Monskobe is living in a schoolhouse in Ukraine that's been converted into a field hospital operated by Israeli medical workers. |
| 0:25.5 | Russia's invasion has now displaced half of Ukraine's children, Zlata, among them. |
| 0:31.2 | She became so unsettled that her father risked his life to return to their apartment to rescue her pet hamster, Lola, to comfort her. |
| 0:41.3 | I want peace for all Ukraine, the little girl told an Associated Press reporter. |
| 0:47.3 | The human cost of this escalating crisis is staggering. |
| 0:51.6 | The U.S. Department of State released a statement this week describing war crimes by Russia's forces in Ukraine. |
| 0:58.8 | The Biden administration announced yesterday that the U.S. will accept up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees fleeing the fighting. |
| 1:08.0 | And NATO allies agreed yesterday to provide Ukraine with equipment and training |
| 1:13.0 | to respond to a possible Russian attack using chemical, biological, or even nuclear weapons. |
| 1:21.1 | In the face of such challenges, my claim across this week that Christians should refame |
| 1:26.1 | crises as opportunities for the gospel |
| 1:28.5 | can seem naive. We understand, theologically, that we are all called to bring the light of the |
| 1:35.1 | world to the darkness, that we are commissioned to make disciples of all nations, even those at war. |
| 1:42.3 | But it is not enough to know we are called to be change agents in a broken |
| 1:47.0 | culture. We must believe that we can make a transformative difference where we are as we are. |
| 1:54.2 | To that end, let's close our week by focusing on the empowering ways God can change us. |
| 2:04.9 | What happens through us must first happen to us, |
| 2:11.2 | said differently, when something happens to us, it's likely to happen through us as well. |
| 2:18.9 | In Jesus, the great philosopher, rediscovering the wisdom needed for the good life, biblical scholar Jonathan T. Pennington identifies two characteristics of biblical ethics, imitative and |
| 2:26.2 | agentic. Biblical moral standards are imitative in that God's ethical demands are rooted in his own |
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