Bachelorette party turns into mission trip: How social media is changing the way we experience reality
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 24 September 2019
⏱️ 6 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
Social media is changing the way we experience reality. Today's podcast explores the good and bad sides of this fact and points to the only reality we can trust in the challenging times of life.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, |
| 0:12.2 | visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.8 | Six months ago, Ricky Cayley of Macon, Georgia, planned a bachelorette party for herself and her friends, |
| 0:26.7 | booking a September 12th trip to the Bahamas. After Hurricane Dorian devastated the islands, |
| 0:32.3 | they chose to make their party a mission trip. They launched a social media campaign, asking people to donate supplies the |
| 0:39.1 | group could take with them. They hoped to bring 10 extra suitcases filled with donations, but |
| 0:44.4 | boarded their flight with 37. Delta Airlines waived the fees. In a day before social media, |
| 0:50.9 | such an initiative would have been much harder to launch. As it was, the girls posted |
| 0:55.9 | their trip on their Facebook pages, and the rest is history. Social media makes possible much good, |
| 1:02.1 | but as we'll see today, it also contributes to the moral confusion of our day. |
| 1:09.6 | Mark Ronson won the Oscar for Best Original Song this year. |
| 1:13.6 | He is known for collaborations with artists from Amy Winehouse and Adele to Miley Cyrus. |
| 1:19.6 | Now he is making headlines by declaring that he is sapiosexual. |
| 1:23.6 | Miriam Webster's Dictionary defines the term as |
| 1:26.6 | sexually attracted to highly intelligent |
| 1:29.4 | people, no matter their gender identity or appearance. Sexuality is more complex, confusing, |
| 1:35.6 | and divisive than ever before in history. One website lists 10 different sexual orientations |
| 1:41.6 | in its glossary. A resource developed by the BBC tells young school |
| 1:46.1 | kids that there are over 100 recognizable gender identities. Tumblr has a list of 112 different |
| 1:53.5 | genders. Such confusion and dissension over sexuality reflects the broader conflicts in our culture |
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