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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Note, my newest research paper, what does the Bible say about removing statues is now

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The paper examines the statues controversy with cultural analysis, biblical response, and practical

applications.

I invite you to read it today. Philip Blanks is a retired Marine and was a

star receiver in high school and college. He was at a friend's apartment in Phoenix recently,

when he heard screaming and a commotion. He ran outside and saw the top floor of the apartment

complex ablaze and enveloped in smoke. He looked up and saw a

petrified woman on the third floor balcony with a child. Flames were creeping up behind her.

People started yelling for the lady to throw her kids down, Blank said. The mother dropped her son

over the third floor railing. As Blank saw the small child falling,

he dove for him, arms out, and caught him just milliseconds before he would have hit the ground.

Blank set his time in the Marines, along with his athletic training as a football player,

prepared him for this moment. The Marines taught him to always be on high alert, not be complacent,

and to have discipline, he said. He was not the only hero that day, however. The child's mother

ran back into the building where her eight-year-old daughter was. She never came out. Word spread

below that a child was in the apartment. D'Artagnon Alexander heard screams

and saw the flames. I have a three-year-old and a nine-year-old, so when I heard there were kids in there,

that really hit my heart, he said later. He immediately parked his car, ran toward the smoke-filled

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