Welcome to the Monday, April 20th, 20th, 2026 edition of Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast. I'm

narrator, Chris Elkins, giving voice to today's daily article written by cultural theologian, Dr. Jim

Denison. America reads the Bible began Saturday at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.

Over seven days, nearly 500 participants will read the Bible aloud from Genesis to Revelation.

Daily readings are scheduled from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

If you wonder whether America needs a spiritual and moral awakening,

you need only read the news. Yesterday's mass shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, in which a father

fatally shot eight children, including seven of his own, is enough to break your heart.

There was also a shooting early Sunday on a pedestrian

mall near the University of Iowa, injuring five people. I could go on, which makes my point.

In such a broken world, how does reading the words of an ancient book out loud help? There are no

plans to preach or teach from the biblical passages being read.

The words themselves will simply be read publicly across the week.

Is this merely a performative gesture, perhaps with political motives?

The answer is more relevant to our souls and national future than one might think.

From its beginnings, the Judeo-Christian worldview has promoted the public declaration

of biblical revelation.

In Deuteronomy 6, the Jews were instructed with regards to the commands of God in verses

6 and 8 and 9, you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

This led to the Teflin, also called a philactary, a small box containing scripture verses

that Orthodox Jews still bind to their hands and foreheads

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