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Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Forum. And this is the daily article for Tuesday,

March 30th, 2021. The title is A Stranded Mega Ship and Censored Christians, three ways to

engage our critics with redemptive truth. What ship is longer than the Eiffel Tower's height and when

loaded weighs more than 22 Eiffel Towers.

A week ago, most of us would have had no idea. Today, you likely know the answer, the ever

given, a massive vessel that ran aground in the Suez Canal last Tuesday. In the day since,

according to the Wall Street Journal, over 360 vessels have been waiting to pass through

the canal. Since 13% of all maritime trade and 10% of seaborne oil shipments transit through

the canal, this has been a global problem. Yesterday, salvage teams were finally able to free

and refloat the mega ship, allowing traffic to resume.

As they worked over the past week, if you'd been standing on the banks of the canal,

you probably would have felt impotent in your own strength to solve such a massive problem.

That's the way many of us feel about the culture we are called to engage with the gospel today.

The rapper Lil Nas X has been making headlines with his Satan-themed sneakers.

Christian cakemaker Jack Phillips is back in court, this time facing a lawsuit from a transgender

lawyer who requested a gender transition cake.

Meanwhile, an article in the Wall Street Journal reports that religious groups and figures

have been silenced by tech companies at the rate of about one a week.

The writer states, quote,

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