Supreme Court keeps Republican-friendly Texas map
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
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Summary
The weekend’s headlines were dominated by political themes, from Marjorie Taylor Greene quitting to the Supreme Court keeping Texas’s new congressional map to the Orthodox Church receiving a wave of new converts. In each case, you have to be grateful for what is being reported to experience the news as good news. Here's why this theme matters this Thanksgiving week and every week. Gratitude is the pathway to flourishing. It’s not enough to have the resources necessary for happiness—we must be grateful for these resources to experience their full benefit.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Monday, November the 24th, 2025 edition of the Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | We're glad you've joined us. |
| 0:09.8 | Dr. Jim Denison, our CEO, wrote today's daily article. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm Chris Elkins, narrator. |
| 0:16.7 | What do these surprising political headlines from this weekend have in common? |
| 0:22.5 | Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Green to quit Congress after Epstein files feud. |
| 0:27.9 | Trump pivots from bashing Mamdani, predicting he will do a great job as mayor. |
| 0:33.9 | Supreme Court, for now, keeps in place Texas Republican-friendly congressional map. |
| 0:39.8 | And Orthodox church pews are overflowing with converts. |
| 0:44.9 | In each case, you have to be grateful for what is being reported to experience the news as good news. |
| 0:51.5 | If you're not a fan of Mr. Trump or Ms. Green, if you don't find New York |
| 0:56.1 | City or Texas state politics relevant, or if you're not interested in the cultural narrative |
| 1:02.0 | illustrated by the Orthodox Church's rising popularity, you won't pay much attention. Here's why this |
| 1:08.4 | theme matters this Thanksgiving week and every week. |
| 1:12.4 | Gratitude is the pathway to flourishing. It's not enough to have the resources necessary for |
| 1:17.8 | happiness. We must be grateful for these resources to experience their full benefit. Consider a |
| 1:24.0 | mundane illustration. My wife sent me to our bank the other day to draw out some money |
| 1:28.8 | from the ATM. The machine asked how much I wanted. I asked the screen what the maximum amount was. |
| 1:35.7 | It told me $800, so I asked for that amount. It then canceled my transaction. When I went inside |
| 1:43.0 | the bank to see what had gone wrong, |
| 1:44.9 | I was informed that $500 is the maximum amount you can withdraw, a fact lost on the ATM's messaging |
| 1:51.4 | system. I was frustrated by the technological snafu, but I had been contemplating today's theme |
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