Today is Thursday, October the 13th, 2022, and this is the Daily Article podcast.

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

Former Hawaii representative and 2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard is leaving the Democratic Party, which she denounced as an elitist Kabul of warmongers.

Her announcement reminds us of Ronald Reagan's famous statement, I didn't leave the Democratic Party, the party left me.

As the leader of a nonpartisan ministry, my intention today is not to criticize the Democratic

Party. To the contrary, politicians leaving the Republican Party would make the same point I wish

to emphasize, in the eyes of the world, we are what we do. George Elliott was right. Just as we

define our actions, our actions define us. What politicians and political

parties do over time defines them far more effectively than platforms adopted at conventions

or speeches made at rallies. The same principle applies to the rest of us. As Michael J. Fox

noted, our challenges don't define us, our actions do. This fact was reinforced for me

when I saw the tragic news that American Idol, season 19 runner-up, Willie Spence, died Tuesday

in a car accident at the age of 23. Just hours before the fatal crash, he posted a video of himself singing a worship song.

When I read the story, this question came to mind.

Would you do what you were about to do if you knew it would be the last thing you would do?

You may have seen ads created by the He Gets Us campaign, a $100 million effort to bridge the gap

between the story of Jesus and the public perception of his followers.

The campaign is based on market research showing that while many Americans like Jesus,

they are skeptical of his followers.

The research split Americans into four categories,

non-Christians, 16% of the sample, people who are spiritually open, 20% of the sample,

Jesus followers, 34% and engaged Christians, 30% of the sample. It revealed a large gap between the first three groups

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