How President Trump's critics have responded to his illness: Three sources of incivility and three invitations for Christians
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR OCTOBER 05, 2020
Responses to President Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis reveal the deep fissures in our culture. Today's podcast discusses these responses, then we focus on three reasons for our incivility and reframe them as opportunities for God's people to make a transforming difference in our culture.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.4 | The White House released a photograph yesterday of President Trump working out at Walter |
| 0:24.3 | Reed National Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, while undergoing treatment for COVID-19. |
| 0:30.3 | His medical team said he could be released as soon as today if his condition continues to improve. |
| 0:36.7 | Global stocks rose this morning on the news. The president's |
| 0:40.0 | illness has not only thrown the race into turmoil, it has also revealed deep fault lines in our culture. |
| 0:48.8 | When the president and his wife announced that they had tested positive for COVID-19, |
| 0:55.8 | some of the responses on social media were so horrific and some of their language so profane that I will not repeat them or link to |
| 1:02.0 | them. By contrast, Joe Biden tweeted, Jill and I send our thoughts to President Trump and |
| 1:07.8 | First Lady Melania Trump for a swift recovery. |
| 1:15.5 | We will continue to pray for the health and safety of the President and his family. |
| 1:19.3 | Kamala Harris added that she and her husband joined the Bidens in wishing President Trump and the First Lady a full and speedy recovery. |
| 1:24.3 | We are keeping them in the entire Trump family in our thoughts. And MSNBC host Rachel |
| 1:29.9 | Maddow, no friend to the president, tweeted, God bless the president and the first lady. If you pray, |
| 1:36.7 | please pray for their speedy and complete recovery, and for everyone infected everywhere. Some of President |
| 1:43.4 | Trump's critics are responding to him and his wife as people whose ideas |
| 1:47.8 | they oppose. |
| 1:49.1 | Others are responding to them as enemies who should be punished or worse. |
| 1:53.8 | In morality, restoring the common good in divided times, Rabbi Jonathan Sachs writes, |
| 1:59.9 | To be sure, many elections in the past have been raw, |
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