Today is Monday, February the 20th, 203.

I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by Denison Forum, co-founder and CEO,

Dr. Jim Denison. President Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Kiev today ahead of the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion

of Ukraine. Pictures emerged this morning of the president walking alongside Ukrainian president

Volodymyr Zelensky as they inspected a memorial wall dedicated to those killed fighting

Russian troops since 2014. Mr. Biden's visit comes on President's Day and highlights the power of his office to make

global headlines.

Today's federal holiday was established in 1885 in recognition of President George Washington,

whose birthday is on February 22nd, and later expanded to include Abraham Lincoln, whose birthday is on February 12th, and eventually all presidents.

However, presidential historian Alexis Coe claims in the New York Times that our first president would hate President's Day.

I will summarize her argument into three assertions. The first is ironic.

While we celebrate our presidents today, no president was actually born on February the 20th.

The second is more practical. Several states don't recognize this day at all, and many do so only sparingly,

with Southern states typically omitting Lincoln from

their observances. A third assertion is especially relevant, however. The president, senators,

and representatives serve at the American electorate's pleasure, and not the other way around.

In other words, the more we depend on a

single person to lead and protect our nation, the more we slide from democracy into demoggery.

As we will see, this is a principle of special relevance to evangelical Christians today. On one

level, we all know that our presidents are mortal.

As a recent example, the Carter Center announced on Saturday that former president

Jimmy Carter, at 98 years old, the longest-lived American president, has entered hospice care

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