Texas Rangers win the World Series: A reflection on faith in fearful times
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🗓️ 2 November 2023
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The Texas Rangers won the World Series last night, earning the team’s first ever championship. Nearly 70 percent of Americans watch live sports. Twenty-two of the thirty most popular TV shows of all time are Super Bowls. Why is this? And how is this conversation relevant to our war-torn, conflicted culture?
Author: Jim Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and welcome to the Daily Article podcast. Today is Thursday, November the 2nd, |
| 0:08.1 | 2023. Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the |
| 0:14.0 | Denison Forum. I'm writing this morning's daily article in a sleep-deprived state yet again. |
| 0:21.3 | For the last three nights, I have stayed up to watch the Texas Rangers play in the World Series. |
| 0:26.0 | I am happy to report that they rewarded my support by winning the World Championship last night. |
| 0:32.2 | It seems appropriate that our team won its first title on the anniversary of the night the Chicago Cubs snapped their quote-unquote curse in 2016 by winning their first title since 1908. |
| 0:45.5 | It hasn't been that long for the Rangers. It just seemed that way. |
| 0:49.0 | But our team's fans are overjoyed, though weary, this morning. |
| 0:52.6 | We are not alone in our fandom. Nearly 70% of Americans |
| 0:56.5 | watch live sports. 22 of the 30 most popular TV shows of all time are Super Bowls. Why is this? |
| 1:05.2 | And how is this conversation relevant to our war-torn, conflicted culture? When we watch sports on television, we can trust what we see with our own eyes. |
| 1:13.6 | We don't need anyone to tell us who won and lost since we experienced the event in real time. |
| 1:19.6 | There was a day when many could say the same about their daily lives as they intersected the world at large. |
| 1:24.6 | When most of us lived on farms or in small towns, most of what |
| 1:28.6 | affected us directly was around us, from the weather to our families, schools, customers, employers, |
| 1:35.3 | and employees. We were never truly exempt from world events. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, |
| 1:41.6 | my father went from a small town in Kansas to fighting the Japanese in |
| 1:45.7 | World War II. But most of what happened to us on a daily basis resulted from a much smaller world, |
| 1:52.3 | one we could understand and had a hand in controlling. Now it seems the world at large affects us |
| 1:57.9 | in ways we did not choose, cannot control, and struggle to understand. For example, |
| 2:03.6 | the FBI director testified this week that the Israel-Hamas war has raised the potential for an attack |
| 2:10.3 | against Americans at home. The agency is concerned about violent extremists or lone actors |
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