Queen Elizabeth will not attend today’s Service of Thanksgiving due to “some discomfort”
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The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 3 June 2022
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As England celebrates the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II's seventieth year on the throne, the Queen has said she cannot attend today's Service of Thanksgiving at St. Paul's Cathedral due to "some discomfort." In The Daily Article for June 3, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers what Christians can learn from how British royalty has united its people. He refers to Andy Crouch's new book, "The Life We're Looking For," in discussing the loneliness epidemic. And, with help from St. Cyril of Alexandria, he answers why Jesus told his disciples, "It is to your advantage that I go away" (John 16:7).
Author: Dr. Jim Denison
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Friday, June 3, 2022. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:13.4 | Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee began yesterday. As the United Kingdom celebrates her 70 |
| 0:19.9 | years on the throne, the monarch issued |
| 0:21.9 | this statement. I continue to be inspired by the goodwill shown to me and hope that the coming |
| 0:27.5 | days will provide an opportunity to reflect on all that has been achieved during the last 70 years |
| 0:33.3 | as we look to the future with confidence and enthusiasm. The celebration began Thursday with the trooping of the color |
| 0:39.5 | and was followed by the beacon lighting event at Windsor Castle. |
| 0:43.6 | However, the queen experienced some discomfort, |
| 0:46.5 | according to a statement from Buckingham Palace, |
| 0:48.8 | and decided with great reluctance |
| 0:50.8 | that she will not attend today's service of Thanksgiving at St. Paul's Cathedral. |
| 0:55.8 | While the 96-year-old monarch has been seating some of her royal responsibilities in recent years to her |
| 1:01.4 | son Charles, she remains enormously popular. In southern England, some 20 people signed up to run a |
| 1:08.4 | 70 kilometer, that's 43.5 miles, ultra marathon, one kilometer for every year |
| 1:15.5 | the queen has been on the throne. The royal mint crafted its biggest commemorative coin ever. |
| 1:21.1 | The weekend will see an attempt outside Windsor Castle to break the record for the world's |
| 1:25.8 | longest street party. |
| 1:27.5 | The Queen's image was projected onto the Neolithic slabs of Stonehenge. |
| 1:32.8 | British royalty has not always been this celebratory. |
| 1:36.6 | I am reading Ian Mortimer's acclaimed Edward III, the perfect king. |
| 1:41.7 | In it, we learn of the circumstances in which Edward III became the English |
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