Hurricane Beryl’s destruction and President Biden’s future: The power of Mother Nature and Father Time
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🗓️ 9 July 2024
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Hurricane Beryl, the earliest Category 4 and Category 5 hurricane on record killed at least three people and knocked out power to nearly three million homes and businesses in Texas after devastating islands in the Caribbean.
President Biden wrote a letter yesterday to his “fellow Democrats” stating, “I am firmly committed to staying in this race, to running this race to the end, and to beating Donald Trump.” He told his favorite cable news program, “The bottom line here is, we’re not going anywhere. I’m not going anywhere.” And he addressed his largest donors in a Zoom conference yesterday afternoon, declaring that he is “absolutely and unequivocally” staying in the race. Whatever you think of Mr. Biden’s cognitive and governing capacities, it remains true that “Father Time is undefeated.” Hurricane Beryl reminds us that Mother Nature is equally powerful.
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| 0:00.0 | Good day and welcome to the Daily Article podcast. Today is Tuesday, July 9th, |
| 0:07.0 | 2024. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:15.5 | Hurricane Burl came through my area yesterday, dropping nearly five inches of rain and causing high wind gusts. |
| 0:22.5 | It was much worse elsewhere. |
| 0:24.3 | The earliest Category 4 and Category 5 hurricane on record killed at least three people and knocked |
| 0:30.7 | out power to nearly 3 million homes and businesses in Texas after devastating islands in the Caribbean. |
| 0:41.3 | In other news, President Biden wrote a letter yesterday to his fellow Democrats, stating, I am firmly committed to staying in this race and running this race to the end and to beating Donald Trump. |
| 0:49.3 | He told his favorite cable news program, the bottom line here is, |
| 0:53.3 | we're not going anywhere. I'm not going anywhere. |
| 0:56.3 | And he addressed his largest donors in a Zoom conference yesterday afternoon, declaring that he |
| 1:02.0 | is absolutely and unequivocally staying in the race. Whatever you think of Mr. Biden's |
| 1:07.9 | cognitive and governing capacities, it remains true that Father |
| 1:11.9 | Time is undefeated. Hurricane Burrell reminds us that Mother Nature is equally powerful. |
| 1:18.8 | Faced with such reminders of our finitude and our creator's omnipotence, this observation |
| 1:24.2 | by Julian of Norwich seems relevant today. |
| 1:28.3 | God is the ground and the substance, the very essence of nature. |
| 1:32.3 | God is the true father and mother of natures. |
| 1:35.3 | We are all bound to God by nature, and we are all bound to God by grace. |
| 1:41.3 | However, others could not disagree more vehemently, as we will see this morning. |
| 1:47.0 | This debate is not just relevant to our rapidly secularizing culture, but to each of us |
| 1:52.5 | who must confront some kind of suffering today. In why the purpose of the universe, Durham |
| 1:58.5 | University Philosophy Professor Philip Gough argues that the universe has a cosmic purpose and is directed towards certain goals such as the emergence of life. |
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