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The year 2020 continues to make history for all the wrong reasons.

The good news is that Hurricane Marco weakened overnight to a tropical storm before it makes

expected landfall on the Louisiana coast later today.

The bad news is that Tropical Storm Laura is forecasted to strengthen to a hurricane before

it makes landfall late Wednesday or early Thursday.

Parts of Louisiana will start to see the effects of Laura by Wednesday morning after

Marco leaves the state Tuesday evening.

National Weather Service meteorologist Benjamin Scott said, the unprecedented kind of thing here

is, is that it's the same state within 48 hours of each other.

And this is happening in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. The Louisiana State Department of Health reported 1223 more cases and 59 more deaths in the last two days.

In a year filled with so many challenges at the same time,

Christians can make a transforming difference in our culture.

However, there's an empowering key we need to remember.

I teach history of Western Thought in the doctoral program at Dallas Baptist University. In our study,

we note that an essential shift comes early in our intellectual history with Socrates's dictum,

Know Yourself. Four centuries before Christ, Socrates taught that we know truth by knowing

ourselves. This focus on the individual as the locus of knowledge,

in contrast to truth known by the community or by divine relation, has been foundational to secular

culture from his day to ours. Even evangelical Christians can be more Socratic than biblical.

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