Good day. It's Monday, October the 21st, 2024, and this is the Daily Article Podcast.

I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article, written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

In September 2023, 5,000 students attended a mass worship service at Auburn University's Neville Arena,

and 200 were spontaneously baptized. The event sparked a movement called Unite Us. Over 2,000

salvations and more than 800 baptisms have taken place at its events on American campuses over the last year.

Nearly 6,000 students recently gathered for a mass worship event at Mississippi State University, for example.

We should rejoice at such good news at a time when pro-Palestinian protests and woke ideology

continued to embroil many schools.

Charles Dickens famously wrote,

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

He could have been reading today's news.

Yaya Sinwar's death was, quote,

a good day for Israel, for the United States, and for the world, end quote.

But Hezbollah and Iran vowed to escalate their war against Israel.

Migrant crossings have plunged at the U.S.-Mexico border, but the border crisis has led to

an explosion in forced prostitution of immigrants in the U.S.

The economist calls America's economy bigger and better than ever, but an aging population,

the rise of artificial intelligence, and the rewiring of the global economy threatens our future.

The juxtaposition of good news and bad, of pleasure and pain, illustrates C.S.

Lewis's observation, Our father refreshes us on the journey with some pleasant ends, but will not

encourage us to mistake them for home. Here's our cultural dilemma. Since secularized people

see these quote-unquote ends, as, in the words of George Clooney, the only thing I know to

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