Mom meets 911 operator who helped her deliver baby in her car
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 16 December 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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A woman chose her baby’s middle name after the 911 operator who talked her through birth in her car. The percentage of self-identified Christians dropped 12 percent over the past decade. In The Daily Article for December 16, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison discusses our culture’s slide from “the old tolerance to the new,” then explains why we have moved away from biblical morality.
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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 |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:20.1 | Elizabeth Elise Fatoma's middle name is a story worth knowing. |
| 0:24.7 | Her mother was driving herself to the hospital to deliver her, but found she was going into |
| 0:29.7 | labor in her car. |
| 0:31.7 | Her 911 call was answered by dispatcher Elise Rivera, who talked her through the delivery |
| 0:37.1 | of a healthy baby girl. |
| 0:39.3 | Fatoma then named her baby in honor of the operator. The two women met for the |
| 0:44.3 | first time Tuesday on the Today Show. Carl Sandberg was right, a baby girl in God's opinion |
| 0:51.3 | that the world should go on. |
| 1:03.1 | Children are a heritage from the Lord of whom Jesus said, to such belongs the kingdom of God. |
| 1:09.2 | I am grateful every day to be a father of two amazing sons and the grandfather of four perfect, at least in my opinion, grandchildren. |
| 1:12.6 | That's why these headlines grieve my heart today. |
| 1:16.6 | LA schools host LGBT Club for four-year-olds. |
| 1:20.6 | The school district of Philadelphia allowing students to identify as non-binary without parental consent. Billy Eilish says she started |
| 1:30.8 | watching porn at age 11. It really destroyed my brain. We are living in a day when tolerance has been |
| 1:38.8 | weaponized, and our children are its victims. In the intolerance of tolerance, biblical scholar D.A. Carson |
| 1:47.1 | identifies a subtle shift in the way our society defines tolerance. He writes, this shift from |
| 1:54.8 | accepting the existence of different views to acceptance of different views, from recognizing other people's rights |
| 2:03.3 | to have different beliefs or practices, to accepting the differing views of other people |
| 2:09.0 | is subtle in form, but massive in substance. |
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