Denzel Washington on Will Smith slapping Chris Rock: "The only solution was prayer"
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 4 April 2022
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What did Denzel Washington do right after Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Oscars? What did North Carolina men's basketball head coach Hubert Davis say about his faith? In The Daily Article for April 4, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers the days news from a biblical perspective, wonders about our "compassion fatigue," and shares the inspiring story of a Muslim sheikh who's led four hundred other sheikhs to Christ.
Author: Dr. Jim Denison
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Monday, April 4th, 2022. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:15.9 | Denzel Washington spoke at Pastor T.D. Jake's International Leadership Summit last Saturday, where he explained his reaction when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock at the Academy Awards last week. |
| 0:29.4 | Washington went immediately to speak with Smith, a decision he explained to the group, I don't know all the ends and outs of this situation, but I know the only |
| 0:39.1 | solution was prayer, the way I saw it, the way I see it. In other headline news, North Carolina |
| 0:46.8 | defeated Duke last Saturday in what is being called a game for the ages and will play Kansas |
| 0:52.9 | in tonight's NCAA men's basketball championship. |
| 0:57.3 | When Hubert Davis, North Carolina's first year coach, was introduced last April, |
| 1:03.0 | he told a press conference that his faith is the most important thing to me. |
| 1:08.3 | My faith and foundation is firmly in my relationship with Jesus. |
| 1:12.7 | It just is. |
| 1:14.9 | By contrast, this Atlantic headline caught my eye. |
| 1:19.4 | Why people are acting so weird? |
| 1:22.5 | The writer documents a variety of ways people are acting more rudely and violently and points to heightened stress, |
| 1:30.4 | the increased use of alcohol and drugs, and isolation enforced by the pandemic. |
| 1:35.9 | Today's news offers tragic examples. At least six people were killed and at least 12 were wounded |
| 1:42.7 | in a shooting yesterday morning in Sacramento, California. |
| 1:46.8 | A man was shot to death in Atlanta. |
| 1:49.6 | And one person was killed and at least 11 people were hospitalized Saturday night after a shooting incident at a concert in Dallas. |
| 1:59.3 | In light of all the bad news, how are Americans doing? In a recent |
| 2:03.9 | Gallup poll, only 17% of the respondents said they were satisfied with the direction of the |
| 2:09.9 | country. However, 85% were satisfied with their own lives. This disparity highlights the point I want to make today. |
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