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The Daily Article

Home Depot employees return lost envelope filled with cash

The Daily Article

The Denison Forum

News, Daily News, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Home Depot employees in Bellevue, TN, returned a lost envelope filled with cash. The manager explained, “One of our core values says to do the right thing. That is just us living our core values.” Imagine how different our society would be if everyone agreed. And what does it mean for Christians to live out our core values in a relativistic, “post-truth” culture?

Author: Jim Denison, PhD

Narrator: Chris Elkins

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Welcome to the Daily Article podcast.

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Today is Thursday, December the 15th, 2022.

0:49.5

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

0:53.1

From 1 John 318, we read,

0:56.3

Let us not love in word or talk, but in deed and in truth. Adam Adkison, a Home Depot employee

1:03.8

in Bellevue, Tennessee, recently noticed a small envelope in Isle 22. When he picked it up,

1:10.2

he discovered it was packed with $700 in cash.

1:14.2

He could have kept the money and presumably no one would have been the wiser. Instead,

1:19.1

he contacted a manager named Alyssa Rokey who made a post about the envelope on Facebook.

1:25.0

A person responded, describing the envelope in detail and confirming that the money

1:29.4

belonged to his business partner. The owner was grateful to get his money back since he planned to use

1:34.6

it to buy Christmas gifts for his children. Roki explained why she and Adkison responded to the lost

1:41.2

money as they did, and I quote, one of Home Depot's core values says to do the right thing.

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This is just us living our core values, end quote.

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Imagine how different our society would be if everyone agreed.

1:56.0

For decades now, we have been living in a post-truth culture.

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The claim that all truth claims are

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