Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. Today is Thursday, May 4th, 2023. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison

Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. Today is the National Day of Prayer.

However, for reasons I will explain shortly, I'm beginning today's daily article by discussing

the British Royal Coronation on Saturday.

The celebration comes at a challenging time for the UK.

The country is reeling from a cost-of-living crisis that has fueled multiple strikes by hundreds

of thousands of government workers, doctors, teachers, train drivers, and others.

Since leaving the European Union, Britain's currency has lost a fifth of its value.

Things have been so dire that the Wall Street Journal recently headlined,

Britain's financial disaster is a warning to the world.

Nonetheless, Saturday's coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla is expected to cost the British taxpayers at least $125 million,

roughly double the cost of Queen Elizabeth's coronation.

Unsurprisingly, only 32% of the British public thinks the coronation

should be funded by the government. Some suggest that since King Charles' personal wealth is

estimated at around $1.8 billion, he should pay for his own coronation. Since he became king the

moment his mother died last September, and Saturday's coronation changes

nothing on a practical level, some people wonder why Britain persists as the only country in Europe

that still practices coronations. However, there's a larger question at work here, one that applies to

every evangelical Christian of every

nationality. The year before Queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1953, President Harry S. Truman

proclaimed a National Day of Prayer. Presidents dating back to George Washington had issued

such proclamations for particular days or challenges, but President Truman's declaration

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