Greetings. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. Today is Monday, March the 18th, 2024. I'm Chris Elkins,

narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. Do you

sometimes wonder if your life can make a real difference in a world like ours? If so, meet Kevin

Briggs, a former California Highway Patrol officer who now serves in a different capacity,

stopping people from dying by suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge. When he finds someone preparing

to jump from the bridge to their death, Briggs usually starts a

conversation with them by asking how they are doing and then asking about their plans for the

following day. If they don't have such plans, he tries to make plans with them, inviting them

to come back to the bridge if their plan does not work out at the end of the day. With this approach,

he has kept more than 200 people

from taking their lives. As one example, he spent 60 minutes with a man named Kevin Berthea,

convincing him to climb back over a rail on the bridge. Kevin went on to marry and have

multiple children. Briggs has earned the nickname Guardian of the Golden Gate for his

life-saving efforts. Over the weekend, Russian President Vladimir Putin won a rigged election to ensure

six more years of autocratic rule. However, as the economist reports, Mr. Putin's ambitions pose a

long-term threat that goes far beyond Ukraine

by spreading discord in Africa and the Middle East, threatening NATO, supporting North Korea,

seeking to put nuclear weapons in space, and threatening to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia's

sovereignty and independence. Meanwhile, as Ramadan continues for the world's

1.9 billion Muslims, demographers predict that the global Muslim population will grow more than

twice as fast as the world population over the coming years. This, while the percentage of

Christians in America,

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