Multiple memorial services for George Floyd: Why we need each other to make a difference that matters
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 5 June 2020
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR JUNE 5, 2020
Several memorial services are being held for George Floyd. Today's podcast discusses the global significance of his life and death, then we consider the "crisis fatigue" of our day and identify a key to God's best future for us.
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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. |
| 0:19.3 | A funeral service for George Floyd was held yesterday in Minneapolis. |
| 0:24.3 | In his remarks, Attorney Benjamin Crump said the fight for justice following Mr. Floyd's |
| 0:29.6 | death is part of a greater fight to help America be America for all Americans. |
| 0:35.6 | Reverend L. Sharpton then delivered the eulogy, echoing the words of Mr. |
| 0:39.7 | Floyd's six-year-old daughter, Gianna, You Change the World, George. Mr. Floyd's body is now going to |
| 0:46.2 | Rayford, North Carolina, the state where he was born 46 years ago. A two-hour public viewing |
| 0:52.2 | and private service for the family will be held there tomorrow. |
| 0:55.9 | A public viewing will be held Monday in Houston, where Mr. Floyd was raised and lived most of his |
| 1:01.3 | life, followed by a service Tuesday at the Fountain of Praise Church and a private burial. |
| 1:07.1 | These multi-day, multi-city services are just one indication of the significance of Mr. Floyd's life and horrific death. |
| 1:15.3 | Demonstrators have marched through streets or gathered at U.S. embassies in Canada, the U.K., Germany, and New Zealand as well. |
| 1:25.8 | George Floyd's brutal death on Memorial Day has sparked a national and international protest against racial prejudice and injustice. |
| 1:34.7 | This is not, however, the only example of the fact that humanity is more globally connected than ever before. |
| 1:41.5 | Consider four others. One, a pandemic that originated in a city most of us could |
| 1:47.6 | not find on a map has infected more than 6.6 million people in 188 countries or regions and led to |
| 1:55.3 | nearly 400,000 deaths as of this morning. Two, the financial cost of the COVID-19 pandemic could be as high |
| 2:03.7 | as $4.1 trillion. This figure does not include the cost of 40 million unemployed Americans, |
| 2:10.9 | the damage of the recession for lower-income families, the effect of school closures, the impact on |
| 2:16.9 | new graduates and young workers, or the |
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