It's Thursday, July 3rd, 2025. Welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast. I'm Chris Elkins,

narrator, voicing today's daily article written by cultural theologian and our CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

Quote, Jimmy Swagger dies at 90.

Passionate televangelist was ousted by scandal.

End quote.

This is how the New York Times

headlined its coverage

of the well-known evangelist death this week.

Other outlets similarly linked his passing

and the moral failures that plagued him in his ministry.

However, here's a part of the Times story that caught my eye.

It was written by a reporter who died five years ago.

David Stout is listed as the author of the article.

But at its end, we read David Stout, a reporter and editor at the New York Times for 28 years, died in 2020, and a fetalman contributed reporting, end quote.

Clearly, the latter merely updated an article written at least five years ago by the former.

So we know that the Times has, for several years,

planned to run a profile of the evangelist that was written years before his death. The good news

is that with God, our story is never over until it's over. My purpose is not to minimize Jimmy Swaggart's

faults. Rather, it is to point to the transforming grace of Christ

whereby no sinner is beyond the reach of repentance and redemption. This amazing grace is the

foundational hope of our nation as we approach our 249th birthday. Our system of governance, as

enlightened as it was when it was forged and as it remains today, cannot change a single heart or transform a single soul.

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