Hi, this is Jim Denison with Denison Forum, and this is the Daily article for Tuesday, July 17, 2018.

Like millions of others, I watched the press conference between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday.

Then I watched reactions in the press, and it was as if there were two different events.

Fox News reports that the president is facing what it calls

harsh bipartisan criticism back home from lawmakers who claim that he, quote,

missed a chance to stand up to the Russian president on election meddling.

Senator John McCain was especially critical, calling the president's statements

one of the most disgraceful

performances by an American president in memory. By contrast, several Republican leaders were supportive

of Mr. Trump's meeting with Mr. Putin. For instance, Senator Rand Paul called critics of President

Trump's approach to Russia mistaken and said, we should look for ways to make the dialogue better.

He described the president's critics as victims of what he called Trump derangement syndrome.

Oxford Dictionary selected post-truth as its international word of the year in 2016.

The decision seems appropriate in our relativistic culture.

For example, Episcopal church leaders decided last week to allow same-sex couples to marry in their home parish,

even if their local bishop objects morally to gay marriage.

This despite objections from some bishops that such a move would force Episcopalians,

quote, to accept social and cultural

practices that have no biblical basis in Christian worship. One bishop explained the motive behind

the move, saying, folks just want to be married at home. Episcopalians are by no means the only

denomination to struggle with reconciling biblical truth and contemporary culture.

The United Methodist Church, America's second largest Protestant denomination, is planning a

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