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Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denisonformed, and this is the daily article from Monday,

May 24th, 2021. The title is Gunfire at a crowded party and a plummeting cable car,

three ways to define our personal worth and the path to empowering purpose. Gunfire erupted at a

house party packed with hundreds of guests late Saturday night in New Jersey.

Two people were killed, at least 12 more, were wounded.

Yesterday, a cable car, taking visitors to a mountaintop view in northern Italy, plummeted to the ground, killing at least 14 people.

And 21 people running a mountain ultramarathon in northwestern China died after hail, freezing rain,

and gale winds hit the high-altitude race. It's estimated that nearly 150,000 people die each day around the

world. And yet these 37 deaths, 0.02% of the total, are leading the news this morning. Why is this? You and I have a God-given sense of the

value of human life. We can't comprehend 150,000 deaths, so the number is less impactful for us.

But we can envision people being shot to death at a party or plummeting to earth and a cable car

are dying in extreme weather. We know intuitively

that every person is of intrinsic worth. The question is, what is the basis for this worth? Upon our

answer hinges the future of our society and of our souls. Throughout the Israel-Hamas conflict,

a consistent theme in Western media was that

Israel is the aggressor and the Palestinians are their victims. This despite the fact that Hamas

launched missiles first and pledges in its charter to destroy Israel. As we noted last week,

a narrative championed by Columbia University professor Edward Said claims that the West

views the East through a patriarchal colonial lens. This claim is linked with critical theory,

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