Princes William and Harry reunite to dedicate Princess Diana's statue: A secular historian explains "why I was wrong about Christianity"
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 2 July 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Princes William and Harry dedicated a statue yesterday to their mother on what would have been her sixtieth birthday. In The Daily Article for July 2, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison reports on Princess Diana's lasting legacy of service, then he surveys a remarkable book on Christian history, notes the seminal impact early Christians made on our culture, and calls us to be transformed by Jesus as our gift to our nation on her birthday.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Nichter.
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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 thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.8 | These are the units to measure the worth of this woman as a woman regardless of birth. |
| 0:25.6 | Not what was her station, but had she a heart. How did she play her God-given part? |
| 0:31.6 | These words inspired by the measure of man by Albert Schweitzer are carved into the path in front of a statue of Princess Diana, unveiled by her sons yesterday. |
| 0:42.3 | William and Harry wanted it to recognize her positive impact in the UK and around the world, |
| 0:48.3 | and help future generations understand the significance of her place in history. |
| 0:53.3 | They unveiled the sculpture on what would |
| 0:55.8 | have been their mother's 60th birthday. It depicts Princess Diana standing with her hands in the |
| 1:01.5 | shoulders of a boy and a girl, reminding us of her advocacy for children. Princess Diana was a patron |
| 1:08.0 | of over 100 charities. She led a campaign for a global ban on landmines, |
| 1:13.9 | changed the world's perception of HIV and AIDS patients, touched lepers to remove the stigma |
| 1:20.1 | surrounding their disease, and visited London's homeless shelters regularly. She said of her work |
| 1:26.6 | with a Royal Brompton Hospital in London, |
| 1:29.1 | I make the trips at least three times a week and spend up to four hours at a time with patients, |
| 1:34.8 | holding their hands and talking to them. Some of them will live and some of them will die, |
| 1:39.8 | but they all need to be loved while they're here. I try to be there for them. |
| 1:45.0 | When people see what we do, they draw conclusions about who we are. |
| 1:51.0 | As Americans prepare to celebrate our nation's birthday this Sunday, |
| 1:56.0 | one of the best ways American Christians can honor our country is by being the change we wish to see. |
| 2:02.6 | In Dominion, how the Christian Revolution remade the world, |
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