It's Thursday, March the 12th, 2026, and this is Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast.

I'm Chris Elkins, narrator. Today's daily article is authored by friend and cultural apologist, Dr. Jim Denison.

Note, Iran has apparently conducted a significant cyber attack against a U.S. company, a first since the war began.

As more is known, I will provide an update on the war and a biblical response in an article on our website later this morning.

If you live where I live, you waited for the rain to end yesterday for hours on end. But it could be worse,

people in the northern territory of Australia are being warned to stay out of rain-fueled rivers

in their area because, as one official put it, quote, there are crocs absolutely everywhere.

Social media in the region is filled with images and

videos of crocodiles floating down streets and galloping across roads. Residents are told to, quote,

assume any waterway may contain a crocodile. There's your devotional thought for the day.

If you pay much attention to secular culture, you might feel the same way

about the moral issues of our time. It seems you cannot watch a television show without meeting

LGBTQ characters normalizing LGBTQ ideology. Advocates for quote-unquote reproductive health care,

i.e. abortion, are active on every platform.

Non-evangelicals view evangelicals in decidedly negative ways.

One response is to align our beliefs with our critics, adopting the liberal theology we've been discussing this week,

and taking personal positions on moral issues that

our secularized society will affirm. Or we can embrace biblical truth and seek

redemptive ways to engage our fallen culture for the advancement of the gospel.

So how do we choose the latter? In a perceptive recent article, mereere Orthodoxy, editor-in-chief Jake Meador identifies four types of Christian cultural engagement.

To summarize his nuanced and thoughtful analysis,

Meador lists one, populism, making disciples who make disciples in a multiplying movement

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