An asteroid just missed our planet: "Poly-parent households," "tri-parenting," and the urgency and hope of biblical truth
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 19 August 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR AUGUST 19, 2020
A meteor's near miss Sunday is a metaphor for our uncertain future. Today's podcast discusses the meteor, "poly-parent" and "tri-parent" families, and the presumption of our secular culture, then we focus on ways we can respond to judgment with hope and grace.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
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| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
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| 0:58.2 | A physicist has calculated that the universe will end in the next few trillion years. According to |
| 1:05.2 | other experts, it could end for us far sooner. NASA administrator Jim Bridenstein recently testified before Congress that an |
| 1:13.6 | asteroid strike is perhaps Earth's biggest threat. Last Sunday, his fears were made real when |
| 1:20.6 | an undetected asteroid made the closest pass without hitting our planet ever recorded. |
| 1:26.6 | Here's the troubling part. NASA did not see the object |
| 1:30.1 | until six hours after it flew past us, while it was small enough that it would likely have broken |
| 1:36.2 | up in the atmosphere. It was undetected until it would have been too late to respond. What happened |
| 1:42.3 | in the skies overhead is a metaphor for what is happening |
| 1:45.8 | in the world around us, and the situation is more dire than most seem to think. |
| 1:53.4 | This New York Times headline caught my eye. The Polly Parent households are coming. The author |
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