Texas town "essentially closed" by COVID-19: How to prepare for your next crisis before it happens
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
4.9 • 576 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Iraan, Texas, has been "essentially closed" by COVID-19. In The Daily Article for August 24, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison tells this story, focuses on other challenges in the news, explains how our culture has become so secular and self-reliant, and identifies a path to preparing for our next crisis in the omnipotence of our Father.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Nichter.
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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 |
| 0:12.4 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.6 | Thank you to everyone who prayed. |
| 0:22.4 | Sammy is with Jesus. |
| 0:24.2 | This is how Carla Baldaris told her Facebook followers last Thursday |
| 0:28.0 | that her husband had died of COVID-19. |
| 0:31.3 | She and their nine-year-old son had been quarantined because of the virus. |
| 0:35.5 | According to CNN, their West Texas oilfield town of Iran, |
| 0:39.9 | population about 1,200, has been essentially closed because so many people got coronavirus. |
| 0:46.4 | Last week, the school district shut down after only five days of classes because 16% of the students |
| 0:52.9 | and about a quarter of the staff got infected or were |
| 0:56.2 | exposed to COVID-19. School District Superintendent Tracy Carter said, in the last week, we've seen |
| 1:03.0 | more cases for staff and students than we did the entire year last year during school. |
| 1:08.3 | The football season is postponed, but the town's football stadium will |
| 1:12.1 | be used for Sammy Baldaris' funeral tomorrow. On this day in AD 79, Mount Vesuvius |
| 1:21.1 | erupted in southern Italy, devastating the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and killing |
| 1:27.4 | thousands. |
| 1:28.3 | It remains the only active volcano on the European mainland, |
| 1:32.3 | with its last eruption in 1944 and its last major eruption in 1631. |
| 1:38.3 | However, as history notes, another eruption is expected in the future, |
| 1:43.3 | which could be devastating for the 700,000 people |
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