Good day. It's Monday, January the 12th, 2026, and this is Denison Forum's Daily

Article podcast. I'm narrator, Chris Elkins, giving voice to today's daily article written by

cultural theologian, Dr. Jim Denison. It was a busy weekend for some subsets of American society. If you're a college football fan,

you likely watched Miami and Indiana win their playoff games. Parenthetically, Indiana,

quote, looks like it will never lose again, according to one of my favorite sports commentators.

If you're a pro football fan, as many seem to be

these days, you had five games to watch, including the Bears, come back for the ages,

Saturday night, with one more contest tonight. If you're a movie and TV fan, you likely watch

the Golden Globes last night where one battle after another

and Hamnet won their categories. If you're none of the above, you're wondering if you should

keep listening this morning. I understand the question. While I watched every football game I mentioned,

I have not seen even one of the movies or TV shows for which

Golden Globes were awarded. As a result, I am avoiding reviews of last night's ceremony this

morning. Time is too short to spend it on what is irrelevant to me today. But this fact is more

relevant to our souls than many people seem to know. The Franciscan priest Richard Rohr begins his book, Falling Upward,

his meditation on the spiritual life this way.

Quote, there is much evidence on several levels that there are at least two major tasks to human life.

The first task is to build a strong container or identity. The second

is to find the contents that the container was meant to hold. In quote, in his first task,

we ask the essential questions. What makes me significant? How can I support myself and who will go with me?

However, the container these questions help to define, quoting Roar, is not the end in itself,

but exists for the sake of our deeper and fuller life, which we largely do not know about ourselves.

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