In the latest episode of the Dinnison Forum podcast, we spoke with Joshua S. Porter about his new book, Death to Deconstruction.

It felt to me more herd mentality driven than the evangelicalism I had left behind. It felt to me like tribalism.

It's more built up around what we're against

rather than what we're for, which speaks to part of me because I'm rebellious by nature and

it only gets you so far. It's like, are you hungry? Here's cotton candy. And you're like,

well, this tastes great. I wanted something more than that. Orthodoxy to me is the more.

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2022. Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. Today's article is written by Dr. Jim

Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum. Just in time for Hanukkah, the

Festival of Lights, a group of children out for a walk recently discovered a 2,000-year-old

oil lamp poking out of the ground in northern Galilee.

In other archaeological news from the Holy Land,

detailed inscriptions of the Old Testament King Hezekiah,

including dozens of lines and hundreds of letters,

have been deciphered in what is called a monumental discovery. And the Times of Israel reports

that Israeli archaeologists are excavating an ancient tomb traditionally associated with Salome. Early

tradition suggested that she might have been the midwife at Jesus' birth in Bethlehem. Did Mary really have a midwife for the birth of Jesus?

The question actually says more about Christmas than meets the eye. This tradition began with a second-century book called the Proto-Evangelium of James.

To be clear, it does not actually claim that Salome was Jesus' midwife.

Rather, it reports that she was met by the true midwife who claimed to have witnessed the miracle of a virgin birth.

Salome did not believe this could be true, so she examined Mary for herself and found that she was indeed still a virgin. She was then judged

for her unbelief, as she said, Behold, my hand is dropping off as if burned with fire. She cried out to

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