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thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

Note from Dr. Jim Denison, I am grateful to my son Ryan Denison for writing the daily article this week while I'm on vacation.

Ryan is a graduate of Baylor University and Truitt Seminary and is completing his doctoral

dissertation in church history at B.H. Carroll Theological Institute. He serves as senior fellow

for theology with our ministry and writes often in my absence. I am certain you will find his

insights to be both biblical and practical. Minneapolis is back in the news after nine of the city's

12 city council members voted to defund their police department.

Calls to disband or defund the police have become a common occurrence throughout many of the protests around the country,

but they have grown in intensity over the last week. But just what do people mean when they speak of defunding police departments?

It turns out, no one is really quite sure.

In Minneapolis, for example, the city council admitted that while they have some early thoughts,

there is not a clear plan in place. They hope to work with representatives from the community

over the coming months to develop a system of public safety that places greater emphasis on community

policing efforts and programs aimed at more specific problems. At this point, however, it's still

not clear if the city council even has the legal authority to take this step. Regardless of the

ultimate legality, though, the city's decision has made national headlines

and brought the conversation closer to reality than it has been before.

As such, let's take a closer look at the subject and ultimately what we can learn from it

to better advance God's kingdom in our culture.

First, calls to defund or disband police kingdom in our culture.

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