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It's Friday, September the 5th, 2025, and you've joined us for Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast.

Welcome.

I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's daily article written by our senior editor for theology, Dr. Ryan Denison.

Truth Rising, a documentary developed through a partnership between Focus on the Family and the Colson Center,

premieres today at noon Eastern Standard Time, and I highly recommend making time to watch it.

It's free to stream, and as creators describe, the film is a call to action at a critical time in our culture.

A link to it is in today's podcast episode notes.

However, what I appreciated most about the film is that it provides both a realistic assessment

of the state of Western civilization as well as reasons for optimism grounded in the fact that God is still at work

using his people to offer redemption and hope to a world desperately in need of both.

The documentary begins with Oz Guinness, a brilliant author, theologian, and social critic,

examining the ways in which other civilizations have declined and fallen in the past

to use as comparisons when evaluating the degree to which our current civilization is following in their

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