Brad Pitt says, ‘I cling to religion’: Three keys to sharing Christ with our post-Christian culture
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 24 January 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR JANUARY 24, 2020
Brad Pitt and Ron Reagan have made the news lately for their religious views. Today's podcast tells their stories, contrasts the impeachment trial and the Wuhan virus response in China, and offers three biblical keys to sharing Christ with our post-Christian culture.
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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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| 0:14.3 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
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| 0:26.8 | For this volume, we chose 10 questions asked us by readers of the Denison Forum's daily article. |
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| 1:03.2 | Brad Pitt could have been Neo. |
| 1:05.6 | During an interview this week, the movie star was asked to name a movie role he turned down. |
| 1:13.0 | Pet reluctantly gave one example. |
| 1:19.4 | I did pass on the Matrix. The role eventually went to Keanu Reeves, and the rest is movie history. |
| 1:25.2 | If I were interviewing Mr. Pet, I would ask him about his religious views. He has said in the past that he was raised by a devout Baptist family in Missouri, but called |
| 1:29.2 | himself agnostic, and then atheist as a young actor. Then he says, I found myself coming back around |
| 1:35.8 | to just believe in, I hate to use the word spirituality, but just a belief that we're all connected. |
| 1:42.3 | He added, I cling to religion. Another celebrity whose |
| 1:45.9 | religious views have made news recently is Ron Reagan, son of President Ronald Reagan. He recorded |
| 1:51.9 | an ad for the Freedom from Religion Foundation that aired during a recent Democratic Party |
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