Responding to the Oral Roberts University controversy: Two interrelated imperatives all Christians should embrace today
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 28 March 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Oral Roberts University made the Sweet Sixteen in the NCAA men's basketball tournament this year but is facing enormous criticism for its biblical moral values. Today's podcast reports on this controversy, responds to ORU's critics, and focuses on two imperatives illustrated by Jesus on Holy Monday that are interrelated and vital for all Christians today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.7 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.6 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.7 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Form. |
| 0:22.2 | And this is the daily article for Monday, March 29, 2021. |
| 0:26.0 | The title is, responding to the oral Robert University controversy. |
| 0:30.1 | Two interrelated imperatives, all Christians should embrace today. |
| 0:34.9 | My wife's parents lived in Arkansas for many years. We think it's a beautiful state. |
| 0:38.7 | I visited the campus of Royal Roberts University in Tulsa only one time. We drove around and then we left. |
| 0:45.5 | And yet I really wanted Max Aesmas' last second three-point shot to go down Saturday night, |
| 0:51.5 | as that would have given O.RU the win over Arkansas in the NCAA |
| 0:56.1 | men's basketball tournament and sent them to the elite eight tonight, but it was not to be. |
| 1:02.1 | My sentiments had nothing to do with athletes on either team, but with ORU's commitment to |
| 1:07.6 | biblical sexual morality and the enormous criticism the school is facing as a result. |
| 1:14.1 | A USA Today writer went so far as to condemn the NCAA for even allowing the team to play in the tournament, |
| 1:21.2 | complaining about OROU's, quote, deeply bigoted anti-LGBQ plus policies that, quote, can't and shouldn't be ignored. |
| 1:30.2 | In her view, the school's policies are, quote, wildly out of line with modern society and the |
| 1:35.9 | basic values of human decency, end quote. |
| 1:39.2 | Over the weekend, I saw an interview with the university's president in which he was asked |
| 1:43.4 | about such criticism. |
| 1:45.0 | He made the point that ORU simply believes in biblical morality and always has. |
| 1:49.7 | He added that the school considers such morality to be best for all its students, faculty, and alumni. |
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