Greetings. Today's Thursday, February the 8th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison

Forum, narrating today's daily article written by Dr. Jim Denison. Given its obvious biases, I don't usually turn to

Rolling Stone for objective reporting on cultural issues.

But that fact makes my point today.

The magazine is currently carrying the headline,

This Evangelical Billionaire Family wants to convert you on Super Bowl Sunday.

The article profiles the Green family, founders of Hobby Lobby,

and their support for He Gets Us, a media campaign to share

the good news of God's love. As expected, the profile puts the family's position on birth

control, transgender bathrooms, and other moral issues in the worst possible light. But the very

fact that Rolling Stone is telling the story of the campaign and its planned ads for

Sunday Super Bowl advances the campaign's mission. The article quotes David Green's statement in a

podcast interview, quote, what we're known as, as Christians, we're known as haters. We're beginning

to be known as haters. We hate this group. We

hate that group. But we're not. We are people that have the very, very best love story ever written,

and we need to tell that love story. So our idea is, let's tell the story. As a Christian,

you should love everybody. Jesus loved everybody, end quote.

Now, through God's mysterious providence, even Rolling Stone is telling that love story to its readers.

Stories changed the world. In a lost culture, experiencing a burgeoning crisis of meaning, stories of hope like the He Gets

Us campaign resonate powerfully.

Conversely, due to the intrinsic power of stories, false narratives can do much harm.

For example, many have been telling children struggling with gender dysphoria the story

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