Cruise ship nurses deliver a baby during flight: How to be civil in an uncivil age
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR JUNE 25, 2020
Two cruise ship nurses helped deliver a baby during a flight. Today's podcast tells their story, then we discuss a volcano that may have helped birth the Roman Empire and a dust storm from the Sahara Desert now affecting the US. In response to our interconnected but divisive days, we close with four cultural ways to rebuild national identity and four biblical steps to unity in community.
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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, visit |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.5 | Have you ever asked yourself, why do I keep wrestling with that sin? |
| 0:23.6 | Do you ever feel like the Apostle Paul when he wrote, |
| 0:26.6 | I do not understand my own actions, for I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I |
| 0:32.6 | hate? |
| 0:33.6 | If even Paul struggled with sin, so will we all. |
| 0:36.6 | Our newest book, Seven Deadly Sins, |
| 0:39.3 | How Our Oldest Temptations Can Lead You from Vice to Virtue, seeks to answer Paul's |
| 0:44.3 | question. Just how can we overcome the routine sins in our lives that threaten to overcome us? |
| 0:50.4 | Request your copy today at daily article.org. |
| 0:56.2 | A woman was traveling from London to Manila on an Emirates flight when she went into labor. |
| 1:02.8 | The public address system asked for medical help. |
| 1:05.9 | Two nurses heading home from their jobs on a carnival cruise ship, responded and helped deliver the baby. |
| 1:12.2 | The mother named her baby, Sky. The two nurses helped a mother they had never met, |
| 1:17.6 | because they are all part of our shared humanity on this tiny planet. Here's another example |
| 1:22.7 | of our interconnectedness. Scientists have determined that a volcanic eruption of Alaska's Mount |
| 1:28.6 | Okmock more than 2,000 years ago may have helped birth the Roman Empire. In the years after |
| 1:34.8 | Julius Caesar was assassinated, historical accounts recorded unusual cold, food shortages, |
| 1:41.7 | disease, and famine. These likely exacerbated the social unrest |
| 1:46.0 | that contributed to the downfall of the Roman Republic |
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