Hostages in Texas synagogue freed, attacker identified
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Colleyville, Texas. Dr. Jim Denison discusses this event and the nature of free will, quotes from David Brooks’ NYT profile on a culture in crisis titled “America Is Falling Apart at the Seams,” and ultimately asks if America is experiencing God’s permissive judgment.
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| 0:00.0 | Christianity isn't just marginalized in our culture today. It's not just viewed as irrelevant. |
| 0:09.0 | Our faith is now seen as dangerous in the eyes of many and as an aberration that must be |
| 0:14.8 | opposed and even eradicated. This stark reality is what caused Dr. Jim Denison to write what he believes is his |
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| 0:43.6 | of cultural observation, study, and research, the coming tsunami sounds the alarm about the |
| 0:49.9 | impending tidal wave of threat and opposition that Christians will face for our faith. But it isn't |
| 0:57.4 | doom and gloom. No. The coming tsunami equips Christians like you to understand where we are, |
| 1:05.7 | how we got here, and most importantly, how we can respond redemptively. |
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| 1:23.4 | With God's help and by His grace, may we turn the tide of this tsunami before it overtakes us. |
| 1:41.5 | This is the Daily Article Podcast. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 1:51.0 | Congregation Beth Israel is a Jewish synagogue in Colleville, Texas, 30 minutes west of my home in Dallas. |
| 1:59.0 | Saturday morning, the rabbi and three others were taken hostage. |
| 2:04.6 | Late that evening, FBI agents cleared the building and rescued the hostages. |
| 2:10.2 | The attacker was killed during the operation. |
| 2:14.1 | Yesterday, the FBI identified the suspect, a 44-year-old British national named Malik Vaisal Akram. |
| 2:23.9 | His family stated that he was suffering from mental health issues, but added that they apologized wholeheartedly and condemned his action. |
| 2:34.3 | They said in a statement, |
| 2:36.3 | there was nothing we could have said to him or done |
| 2:39.9 | that would have convinced him to surrender. |
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