St. Corona is the patron saint of resisting epidemics: How will you be remembered when the pandemic is over?
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 27 March 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR MARCH 27, 2020
How will the world remember us when the coronavirus pandemic is over? Today's podcast examines this question, focuses on bipartisanship and compassion, and invites us to step through a "wide door for effective work" today.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.7 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.2 | Our latest book, Making Sense of Suffering, is now available. My son Ryan and I |
| 0:24.6 | wrote this book in response to a simple, though challenging question. When a loved one suffers, |
| 0:30.2 | what can you do? When faced with comforting hurting people, many of us ask, what should I say? |
| 0:36.0 | What can I do? We often feel ill-equipped to handle weighty problems. |
| 0:40.5 | But as Paul writes in 2 Corinthians 1, 3 through 4, God is the Father of Mercies and God of all comfort, |
| 0:48.4 | who comforts us in all our affliction. And why does he comfort us? Paul continues, so that we may be able to comfort |
| 0:55.7 | those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. |
| 1:01.8 | In our latest book, we offer seven biblical, practical ways you can help those who are in pain, |
| 1:08.1 | so that the next time a friend suffers, you'll be readily equipped for |
| 1:11.8 | how God can use you in that situation. Request your copy today at dailyarticle.org. That's |
| 1:18.7 | daily article.org. In the truth of stranger than fictionategory, the patron saint of resisting epidemics is named |
| 1:29.4 | Saint Corona. She was martyred as a teenager 1800 years ago. Her relics have been preserved in |
| 1:36.2 | Germany since AD 997. Her shrine is being prepared for display once the pandemic has passed. |
| 1:43.7 | Other strange news is much less inspiring. |
| 1:47.0 | A New Jersey man has been charged with harassment and making terrorist threats, |
| 1:52.1 | after he allegedly purposely coughed on a person and said he had coronavirus. |
| 1:57.6 | A man in Belton, Missouri, allegedly planned to car bomb a hospital struggling with the pandemic, |
| 2:03.5 | and a traveler told reporters he was the only passenger on his southwest flight from Dallas to |
| 2:09.1 | Houston on Tuesday. The news we're all waiting for, of course, is the announcement that |
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