Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky named TIME Magazine's "Person of the Year"
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🗓️ 8 December 2022
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was named TIME Magazine's "Person of the Year" on Wednesday. The award is given each year to someone who feels like "a force in history," and Zelensky's stand against Russia certainly qualifies. However, TIME recognized that he is hardly alone in warranting that honor, so they highlighted “the spirit of Ukraine” alongside its leader. As such, we can learn much about the nature of suffering and the ways in which God can redeem it from their example today.
Author: Ryan Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:47.3 | Today is Thursday, December the 8th, 2022. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum. Today's daily article is |
| 0:56.3 | written by Dr. Ryan Denison, Senior Editor for Theology. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky |
| 1:02.7 | was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year on Wednesday. Time editor-in-chief, |
| 1:08.9 | Edward Felsenthal, said Zelensky was chosen, and I quote, |
| 1:12.7 | for proving that courage can be as contagious as fear for stirring people and nations to come |
| 1:18.9 | together in defense of freedom, for reminding the world of the fragility of democracy and peace. |
| 1:26.2 | In the accompanying profile, Simon Schuster, who has been around Zelensky on multiple occasions |
| 1:32.5 | over the last nine months, described the changes he has seen in the president from the |
| 1:36.7 | start of the war. |
| 1:37.9 | AIDS, who once saw him as a lightweight, now praise his toughness. |
| 1:42.5 | Slights that might once have upset him now elicit no more |
| 1:46.2 | than a shrug. Some of his allies miss the old Zelensky, the practical joker with a boyish smile, |
| 1:52.3 | but they realize he needs to be different now, much harder and deaf to distractions, or else |
| 1:58.4 | his country might not survive. |
| 2:05.9 | His initial decision to stick around when, historically, leaders have typically fled in the face of invasion, galvanized his people at the start of the war. |
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