Sister Jean prays before Loyola upsets top seed: The Georgia shootings and the urgency and power of personal purity
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🗓️ 22 March 2021
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Sister Jean, the one-hundred-and-one-year-old nun and chaplain of the Loyola men's basketball team, made headlines again when her team defeated top-seeded Illinois. Today's podcast tells her story and several others of Christians making news for good reasons, then we pivot to the Georgia shootings and the urgency and power of personal purity in our secularized, sexualized culture.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. Before we begin today's daily article, I need to add this note. Another mass |
| 0:05.6 | shooting has occurred, this time in Boulder, Colorado. Ten people have died, including a police |
| 0:10.7 | officer. When we know more, we were released a special edition daily article later this morning. |
| 0:16.0 | For now, please join me in praying for the families and others affected by this horrible |
| 0:20.4 | tragedy, claiming |
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| 0:47.1 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:54.0 | Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Forum, and this is the Daily Article for Tuesday, March 23, 2021. The title is, Sister Jean |
| 0:56.1 | prays before Loyola upsets top seed, the Georgia shootings, and the urgency and power of personal |
| 1:02.7 | purity. Here's the question. Can a prayer change a basketball tournament? Sister Jean |
| 1:08.8 | Dolores Schmidt made headlines three years ago when her Loyola University |
| 1:13.1 | men's basketball team became the Cinderella story of the NCAA playoffs. I wrote at the time about the 98-year-old |
| 1:20.5 | nun who served as the chaplain of the team and its inspiration. You could buy socks, t-shirts, |
| 1:26.4 | even a sister Jean bobblehead. Well, now she's back at it. |
| 1:30.9 | Before Loyola took on top-seated Illinois last Sunday, the now 101-year-old nun prayed for, |
| 1:37.6 | quote, special help to overcome this team and get us a great win. Her prayer noted, quote, |
| 1:43.5 | we have a great opportunity to convert |
| 1:46.0 | rebounds as this team makes about 50% of layups and 30% of its three points. Our defense can take |
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