Greetings. It's Thursday, December the 18th, 2025, and you've joined us for Denison

Forum's Daily Article Podcast. I'm narrator Chris Elkins, giving voice to today's daily article,

authored by our CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. President Trump defended his handling of the economy during a rare prime time speech last night.

He also announced a $1,776 dollar warrior dividend check for active duty service members that he said would be paid for with tariff revenue.

However, he did not address the headline generating fallout from his recent very negative comments

regarding the tragic death of Rob and Michelle Reiner.

Statements even fellow Republicans have criticized.

In other political news, the president is defending his chief of staff, Susie Wiles,

after her Vanity Fair interview

in which she states that Trump has an alcoholic personality because he operates with a view

that there's nothing he can't do. Mr. Trump agreed with her statement, noting that he doesn't

drink alcohol, but that he would have a, quote, very good chance of being an

alcoholic if he did, end quote. He criticized the magazine for a very misguided interview and stated

his full confidence in wiles. Conflict has been a fact of political life in America from our

first contested election in 1796 to the present. It has been a fact of political life in America from our first contested election in 1796 to the

present. It has been a fact of human history since Kane murdered Abel. Neuroscientists are even

trying to help us manage holiday conflict by encouraging us to imagine positive scenarios in the belief

that our brains will learn from them and be more likely to produce them.

Such advice is actually more biblically grounded than it may seem, pointing to the power that not only resolves conflict,

but changes culture in eternally significant ways.

In recent days, we have focused on the miracle by which the Son of God entered Mary's

body to inhabit his own and now lives in us by his indwelling spirit,

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