Where will you place your hope today? Six bad options and one surprising fact
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 19 May 2026
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Summary
In the day’s news, we are invited to put our hope in religion, politics, medical science, artificial intelligence, or future generations—but each continues to reveal its limits. By contrast, Jesus never glossed over the cost of discipleship, warning, “If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.” Yet “as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too,” as suffering drives us from self-reliance into deeper dependence on the Spirit. The more Christlike we become, the more we discover “him who is wholly lovable, wholly desirable.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tuesday, May the 19th, 2026 edition of Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast. Today's |
| 0:09.2 | daily article is authored by Dr. Jim Denison and narrated by yours truly, Chris Elkins. |
| 0:16.0 | This is an article about hope. However, hope is not an independent entity. Like friendship or love, |
| 0:24.0 | it requires an object. We do not hope. We hope in something. So let's consider some options |
| 0:31.3 | in the day's news. We could put our hope in an escalating impact of religion in our culture, |
| 0:36.7 | but despite the large prayer rally |
| 0:39.0 | on the National Mall on Sunday, only 37% of Americans say religion is gaining influence in our |
| 0:45.1 | country. And as yesterday's deadly assault on a San Diego mosque demonstrated, the number of |
| 0:51.1 | hate crimes against religious groups is continuing to rise. |
| 0:55.0 | We could hope in our nation's superpower status, but 62% of Americans say China's influence is getting stronger in the world. |
| 1:03.0 | Only 34% say the same about the U.S., while 59% of Americans say our country's best days are behind us. |
| 1:11.8 | We could put our hope in politics and politicians, |
| 1:14.7 | but Politico reports that our politics have become so divisive that, quote, |
| 1:19.6 | the political therapy boom has arrived. |
| 1:22.8 | We could trust our hope in medical science, |
| 1:24.8 | but the ongoing Ebola outbreak shows the limits of our capacities |
| 1:28.9 | and medical progress can be used for bad as well as for good. |
| 1:33.1 | For example, several companies now offer genetic testing that critics call a quest for, quote, |
| 1:39.5 | designer babies. |
| 1:41.1 | We could put our hope for the future in artificial intelligence, but like medicine, |
| 1:46.1 | it can be used for good or for ill. For example, a recent analysis of AI on college campuses |
| 1:52.9 | reports that it is affecting, quote, every appendage of the university system and warns that |
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