Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast Tuesday, July the 19th, 2022.

Today's article is written by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum.

The University of Pennsylvania has nominated transgender swimmer Leah Thomas for the NCAA's Woman of the Year award. Prior to this season,

Thomas had competed against men with a ranking of number 462. Competing against women, Thomas

achieved a number one ranking. 16 U-Pen teammates wrote a letter noting that Thomas

holds an unfair advantage over competition in the women's category.

If guidelines now in place had been enacted at the start of this season, Thomas would not have

been permitted to compete. In other news, a 30-year-old man survived 18 hours adrift at sea

while clinging to a ball that had been lost by two boys on a beach

10 days prior. An Airbus A380 flew 14 hours from Dubai to Australia with a large hole in its left

fuselage landing safely with no risk to passengers. One other story. In response to the pandemic, single,

non-religious young adults are reporting the highest levels of unhappiness since 1972. A researcher

explains, American young adults have begun to take an extraordinarily dim view of the world

and their own lives.

He added that among people who attend religious services at least two times a month,

unhappiness during the pandemic rose only 4%.

For those who attend religious services less frequently,

unhappiness rose by 15%.

What do these stories have in common? When you read about transgender

conflicts or other battles in the culture wars, do you sometimes feel as if you cannot do

anything that makes a real difference? You could not rescue the man adrift at sea or alert the

Airbus A380 crew to the hole in their fuselage unless you had been there at the time.

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