Today is Thursday, March the 2nd, 2023.

Welcome to the Daily Article podcast.

Today's article is written by Denison Forum, CEO, and co-founder, Dr. Jim Denison, and narrated by Chris Elkins.

A Christian school in Vermont forfeited a girls' basketball game last week and withdrew from the state

championship tournament because the opposing team included a transgender player. Mid-Vermont Christian

School, head of school, Vicki Fogg, explained, and I quote, we withdrew from the tournament

because we believe playing against an opponent with a biological male

jeopardizes the fairness of the game and the safety of our players. Allowing biological males to

participate in women's sports sets a bad precedent for the future of women's sports in general."

If you share my biblical beliefs regarding LGBTQ ideology, you may agree with the school's decision. But what if the

opposing team had a black student athlete on its roster? According to our

secularized culture, the situations are identical. Christians who defend

biblical sexual morality are considered the modern day equivalent to

white supremacists

defending slavery. Not only did the school deprive its players of a chance to continue in the

tournament, they deprived the opposing team of a chance to compete and brought unfair attention

to its transgender athlete. Or so critics would claim. In such cultural conflicts, is there a way we can convince skeptics

that we are truly speaking the truth in love from Ephesians 415? When response is to use secular

means to persuade secular people of the relevance of our faith. For example, a new study profiled

in The Economist shows that American states with more

participation in religious services have fewer deaths of despair, such as drug overdoses,

alcohol-related illnesses, and suicides.

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