Homeless man rescues family from apartment fire: The courage to trust the truth
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 25 May 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Joe Hollins, a man without a home, saved Claudia Jimenez and her two children from an apartment fire. This story serves as a cultural parable as Dr. Jim Denison cites Pete Buttigieg on the culture wars, Tim Keller’s steadfast commitment to biblical orthodoxy, C. S. Lewis’ “Christianity and” heresy, and Billy Graham’s inspiring words on our need to set God’s word as the foundation to our lives.
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | This is Thursday, May the 25th, 2023. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, |
| 0:10.0 | narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:14.0 | Joe Hollins and his wife were camped near the home of Phoenix mother, Claudia Jimenez, when she woke up to find flames |
| 0:22.8 | devouring her apartment. The homeless man heard her screams and ran to help. He stood under her window |
| 0:29.4 | and encouraged her to drop her two children to him. After he caught them, he caught her two dogs, |
| 0:35.2 | and finally Claudia herself. She later said, |
| 0:38.9 | because of him, we're here. We're alive and my daughters are safe. Let's reflect on this |
| 0:45.3 | remarkable story as a cultural parable. I have long considered Pete Buttigieg, the current |
| 0:50.6 | Secretary of Transportation in President Biden's cabinet, a political figure to watch. |
| 0:56.2 | A Rhodes Scholar who served in the military in Afghanistan and as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, |
| 1:01.8 | he married his partner in 2018 and is raising a family with him. |
| 1:06.6 | He is a committed Episcopalian who often discusses the importance of his faith to his public service. |
| 1:12.3 | In recent years, he has become one of the most articulate and popular faces of the progressive ideology |
| 1:19.0 | embraced by so many in his party. For example, Pete Buttigieg gave an extensive interview recently to |
| 1:26.3 | Wired magazine in which he was asked to comment on the |
| 1:30.6 | rights engagement in the culture wars. He observed, and I quote, well, yes, there's something |
| 1:37.3 | delicious about the way they have positioned themselves on one side of the fence. And Netflix, Coca-Cola, Disney, and Bud Light, are on the other |
| 1:46.8 | side, along with most of America, he explained. There may, in fact, be a center of gravity in this |
| 1:54.3 | country that includes both a democratic majority of the American people and even something of a |
| 1:59.9 | consensus, at least among mainstream |
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