Welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Thursday, June 2nd, 2022.

I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim

Denison.

Imagine if Earth were much, much closer to the sun, so close that an entire year lasts only a few hours,

so close that gravity has locked one hemisphere in permanent searing daylight

and the other in endless darkness.

So close that the oceans boil away, rocks begin to melt, and the clouds rain lava.

This is how NASA describes 55 Cancrie E, a planet 50 light years away from us.

In the coming weeks, the James Webb Space Telescope is expected to give scientists their first

look at this fiery world. However, you don't have to turn to the skies to find a planet

filled with hellish behavior.

There has been another mass shooting, this one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where at least four people

were killed on a hospital campus. Several others were injured. The gunman apparently then took

his own life. In other news, the man accused in the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, has been

indicted on more than two dozen charges, and the accused in the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, has been indicted on more

than two dozen charges, and the victims in Yuvaldi are being remembered and honored as

burials continue this week. I could go on. But even our fallen and broken world, there is a

pathway to peace available to each of us today in In the life we're looking for, reclaiming

relationship in a technological world, Andy Crouch explains addiction in a way I had not understood

before. He cites Cambridge neuroscientist Wolfram Schulz, who reported that drugs of addiction,

such as cocaine, amphetamine, nicotine, and alcohol generate,

hijack, and amplify the dopamine reward signal. However, Crouch notes that the real power of

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