Why canceling Dr. Seuss is a threat to all evangelicals: Praying today for the courage we will need tomorrow
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 8 March 2021
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Six books by the noted children's author Dr. Seuss have recently been "canceled." Today's podcast tells us what has happened, then we focus on the story behind the story, show how it affects every evangelical in America, and close with a call to pray for the courage we need.
The Daily Article is written by Dr. Jim Denison with the Denison Forum. This podcast is narrated by Chris Nichter.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:20.3 | Theodore Seuss Geisel, 1904 to 91, wrote and illustrated more than 60 books under |
| 0:27.0 | the pen name Dr. Seuss. |
| 0:29.3 | By the time of his death, his books had sold more than 600 million copies and had been translated |
| 0:35.8 | into more than 20 languages. Geisel was a graduate of |
| 0:39.5 | Dartmouth with graduate studies at Oxford. His work received two Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, |
| 0:47.0 | a Peabody Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. For decades, Read Across America Day has celebrated |
| 0:53.4 | his birthday while encouraging children to read. |
| 0:57.1 | Like millions of others, I read Dr. Seuss's books as a child, and then read them to our children. |
| 1:03.6 | Then came recent accusations that some of his books depict characters in racist ways. |
| 1:09.8 | A school district in Virginia dropped Read Across America |
| 1:13.0 | Day as a result. While President Obama marked the day with a proclamation calling Dr. Seuss, |
| 1:19.4 | one of America's revered wordsmiths, and President Trump cited his motivational words, |
| 1:25.8 | President Biden omitted any reference to Dr. Seuss in his recent |
| 1:29.9 | proclamation marking the day. In response to this controversy, the company that oversees the author's |
| 1:36.5 | estate announced that it would no longer publish six of his books, citing what it called |
| 1:42.0 | hurtful and wrong images. The company did not elaborate, |
| 1:46.6 | but the New York Times reports that one of the books portrays a Chinaman with lines for eyes, |
| 1:52.4 | who is wearing a pointed hat and carrying chopsticks in a bowl of rice. Another book depicts two |
| 1:58.5 | characters from the African island of Yurka as shirtless, shoeless, |
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