The Democratic Debates and the National Radio Quiet Zone. How to Find Perfect Peace. This is Dr. Jim

Denison's The Daily Article podcast for Friday, June 28th, 2019. The first round of debates among

20 of the Democratic Party's candidates for president is over. As today's Wall Street Journal notes,

Joe Biden was the focus of much of last night's

debate, as the candidates sparred over the role of government in health care and other issues.

In other news, the United Methodist Church appears to be moving closer to a formal split,

four months after the denomination strengthened its ban on LGBT clergy and same-sex weddings.

The House Committee on Education and Labor also discussed this week whether religious freedom should be curtailed

with regard to sexual freedom and other, quote, civil rights. In San Diego, known as one of

America's most beautiful cities, is also making news because of a Department of Justice study,

estimating that its underground sex trafficking

economy exceeds $800 million a year.

I would like to offer you some really good news today, but to get there, we need to discuss

the bad news. Political vitriol, sexual immorality, threats to our religious freedoms, and

the escalation of sex trafficking are just some of the challenges we face today.

If you're like me, reading the news can be discouraging on two levels.

One, our culture's incessantly immoral trajectory can drag us along with it.

Every morning renews the steady drumbeat for reproductive freedom or marriage equality

or death with dignity.

Have you noticed that those who championed such

unbiblical positions are exceptionally good at rhetorical reframing? Since much of the media is

demonstrably more liberal than most Americans, we should not be surprised when media coverage

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