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Hi, I'm Jim Denison, the Denison Forum, and this is the daily article for Tuesday,

May the 4th, 2021. The title is, Pastor's wife advocates for vaccines and receives death threats,

a call to courage that glorifies Jesus. Emily Smith is an epidemiologist at Bailey University.

She's the wife of a Baptist pastor, and she's a mother.

She's been working hard to help her fellow evangelicals understand the urgency of getting vaccinated

against COVID-19. Though she has received vociferous criticism and even death threats,

she's committed to her colleague. She says this, I just feel a sense of obligation, especially from a

Christian perspective, to be the good Samaritan and hopefully get people to band together and still wear

their mask and get a vaccine. Jamie Otten is executive director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute

at Wheaton College. In his work, he has helped

fellow evangelicals deal with hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, other disasters. His ministry has been

widely received with gratitude. However, when he began urging his fellow evangelicals to get vaccinated

against COVID-19, some of the responses he received were ugly.

He even had to file a report with the Sheriff's Office where he lives after getting an email

claiming his work on vaccines was punishable by death.

C.S. Lewis observed that, quote, courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue

at the testing point. A new policy in China went into effect last Saturday. It requires all clergy

and religious leaders in China to, quote, support the leadership of the Communist Party of China,

support the socialist system, and practice the core

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