Today is Tuesday, August 2nd, 2022, and this is the Daily Article podcast.

Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum.

Note, President Biden stated last night that a U.S. missile killed al-Qaeda leader,

Aman al-Zawahiri. I will publish a daily article

special edition this morning with reflections on this historic announcement. NFL quarterback

Deshawn Watson was baptized in the Jordan River in 2019. Videos and photos of the event quickly

went viral. He has been very open about his Christian faith over the years

and stated in a 2015 tweet, My loyalty is to Jesus Christ. None of that, however, is why he's in

the headlines today. Watson, now playing for the Cleveland Browns, was suspended yesterday for

six games for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy. The ruling followed a 15-month investigation

into allegations that he had engaged in sexually coercive and lewd behavior toward more

than two dozen women he hired for massages from the fall of 2019 through March 2021.

Sue L. Robinson, the retired federal judge appointed by the NFL and the players union to

oversee the hearing, stated in her ruling yesterday that Watson's conduct was predatory and egregious

and said he had not expressed remorse. Watson has denied the claims and has settled with all but one of

the 24 women who filed civil suit against him.

Grand juries in two Texas counties declined to charge him criminally.

However, what you and I think of Deshawn Wilson is not my point today.

Rather, it is to note that due to the horrific epidemic of public moral failures among public Christians,

all believers are now guilty until proven

innocent in the eyes of our skeptical culture. The abuse scandals that have rocked the church

have devastated our witness and crippled any moral authority we had left in our secularized

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