Turning PPE into bricks: The most read Bible verse of 2020 and the hidden danger on the path to God's best
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 8 December 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR DECEMBER 8, 2020
An entrepreneur turning PPE into bricks and a woman whose arm was nearly severed by a tiger are making the news. Today's podcast tells their stories, then we focus on the hidden danger facing those who listen to a podcast like this and the path to God's best for our lives and influence.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.4 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.4 | A daily article reader wrote, |
| 0:21.5 | Thank you for encouraging truth about hope. We need more of it. Our world needs more of it. |
| 0:27.9 | At Denison Forum, we are grateful for her kind words, which we see as evidence that a movement |
| 0:32.9 | of culture-changing Christians is happening. To join our mission, your year-end gift to the Denison Forum |
| 0:38.6 | will be doubled by a generous matching grant of up to $150,000, but don't wait to donate. The deadline is |
| 0:45.8 | December 31st, so give today at daily article.org. The coronavirus pandemic is generating tons of discarded PPE. |
| 0:57.0 | This gear is often made of polypropylene plastic, which can take hundreds of years to degrade in landfills and oceans. |
| 1:05.0 | Enter Binich Desai, a recycling prodigy in India, who at the age of 16 founded a company that has turned textile |
| 1:13.3 | waste into furniture and coffee grounds into plates and bowls. Now he's found a way to convert |
| 1:19.4 | PPE into bricks. Body coverings, masks, and headcaps are isolated for three days, sanitized, shredded, and sanitized again. |
| 1:29.8 | Then they're mixed with 47% paper sludge and a binding agent, and pressed by hand into molds. |
| 1:37.1 | Each brick costs about four cents. From the redemptive to the frightening. |
| 1:42.3 | A volunteer at an animal sanctuary in Florida was hospitalized last week after a tiger |
| 1:48.0 | almost tore her arm off. |
| 1:50.3 | She reached into the tiger's cage to open a door when the animal attacked her. |
| 1:55.4 | Other volunteers worked to stop the bleeding and preserve her arm. |
| 1:59.4 | A team member said later that the volunteer kept repeating |
| 2:03.0 | that she felt so stupid for opening the gate. |
| 2:08.7 | Bible searches have soared online during this very difficult year, |
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