Remainder of Florida condo demolished: The Declaration of Independence and our veneration for life
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 5 July 2021
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The remainder of the Surfside, Florida, condominium that collapsed on June 24 was demolished last night. In The Daily Article for July 5, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison explains why the building was taken down, discusses the veneration for life demonstrated by rescuers, focuses on the Declaration of Independence and our freedoms, and calls us to defend these freedoms in our secularized culture today.
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 |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.8 | The remaining section of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, was demolished |
| 0:25.4 | last night. |
| 0:26.8 | About half of the structure collapsed on June 24th, with 24 now confirmed dead and more |
| 0:32.5 | than 120 still missing. |
| 0:35.1 | The remainder of the building shifted several inches on July 1st, putting rescue |
| 0:39.5 | workers at risk and prompting the decision to tear it down. With the approach of Tropical Storm |
| 0:45.3 | Elsa, the timetable was moved up to last night. After the demolition, crews immediately began |
| 0:51.6 | clearing the new debris so rescuers could begin working again early this morning. |
| 0:57.3 | Such tireless efforts to find those missing in this tragedy point to the fact that humans innately |
| 1:03.1 | venerate human life. Imagine leaving the remains of the victims where they are. It is simply |
| 1:08.9 | unconscionable. We have a God-given belief that every life is |
| 1:13.6 | sacred, a conviction that motivated 56 men to sign a document 245 years ago that changed history. |
| 1:23.6 | A man bought a painting of a country scene for $4 in an Adams Town, Pennsylvania flea market. |
| 1:30.3 | When he got it home and inspected it, he found a folded document tucked inside. |
| 1:35.3 | It turned out to be a Dunlap broadside, a first printing of the Declaration of Independence |
| 1:41.3 | made by John Dunlap's letter press on the evening of July 4th, 1776. |
| 1:47.0 | It later sold at auction for $2,420,000. |
| 1:52.0 | President Calvin Coolidge would have agreed with its value and more. |
| 1:56.0 | Speaking on the 150th anniversary of the Declaration, he described it as the most important |
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