If "Love Island" is our future: The legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the urgency of moral purpose
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 24 September 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR SEPTEMBER 24, 2020
Love Island is a CBS show that airs during evening primetime. Today's podcast discusses the significance of its cultural message, then we focus on Justice Ginsburg's commitment to the next generations and identify ways we can influence those who follow us as we follow Jesus.
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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 | In my latest book, I ask, |
| 0:22.0 | How can a nation survive if its citizens see each other as enemies? |
| 0:26.4 | Two out of three Americans consider civility to be a major problem in our country today. |
| 0:32.3 | Only 7% say it is not a problem at all. |
| 0:35.6 | It seems we are all fighting to be heard, but no one's listening. |
| 0:39.6 | Has our culture lost the art of civility? |
| 0:42.6 | In respectfully I disagree. |
| 0:44.7 | How to be a civil person in an uncivil time, |
| 0:47.6 | I offer a biblical path to becoming a people of civility in a season of conflict. |
| 0:52.6 | Request your copy of my newest book today at the daily article.org. |
| 0:59.6 | My wife and I watched NCIS Tuesday night. When the show ended, Love Island began. We watched the |
| 1:07.0 | first minute, and we're so shocked we turn the television off. |
| 1:13.1 | CBS describes the show this way. |
| 1:20.0 | Love Island is the sizzling summer series based on the international smash hit and cultural phenomenon. |
| 1:26.6 | The matchmaking begins as a group of single islanders come together in a stunning villa in Las Vegas, ready to embark on a summer of dating, romance, and ultimately, relationships. |
| 1:32.3 | Note the order, dating, followed by romance, which then leads to relationships, not the reverse. |
| 1:39.6 | The description continues. Every few days the islanders pair up, and those who are not coupled are at |
| 1:46.1 | risk of being dumped from the island. When the swimsuit-clad contestants begin to pair up in the part of the show we saw, |
| 1:53.8 | it was obvious what came next. Here's my point. CBS airs this highly sexualized show at 8 o'clock p.m. Central Time, early enough for my |
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