Greetings. It's Wednesday, May the 15th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins,

narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

Let's begin with a story that is dominating today's headlines, then ask why it's so popular.

Imagine you're sailing in a 49-foot-long yacht through the beautiful and historically significant

Strait of Gibraltar. Suddenly, you begin feeling blows to the hull and rudder. Water starts

seeping into the ship. After you alert rescue services,

a nearby oil tanker takes you and your traveling companion on board. Your yacht is left

adrift and eventually sinks. Was this structural failure? Terrorism? The answer? Orcas. Also known

as killer whales, these social and highly intelligent apex predators

have been attacking ships in the area for years. Researchers have tracked nearly 700 such interactions

since 2020, though no one is quite sure how to explain such behavior. Now, why would a story affecting just two people on the other side of the world generate such interest?

Is it the oddity of it?

The irony of being rescued from a luxury yacht by an oil tanker, arguably the opposite ends of the nautical spectrum?

Or is there something more visceral at work? From increasing

fears that bird flu could mutate to threaten humans to wildfires in Canada, now triggering air

quality alerts across four U.S. states to predictions that this year's hurricane season could break

records, Mother Nature is very much in the news today. Each of

these stories resonates with a deep, visceral fear, the unstated, often subliminal reality

that we are finite and frail creatures inhabiting a planet that is largely indifferent to

our survival, if not outright hostile to it.

But here's the good news. God wants to use this instinctual phobia to lead us to empowering

faith on a deeper level than we've ever experienced before. In Anthony Bales, a travel guide to

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