Will Smith slaps Chris Rock: the Academy Awards, Ukraine, and the frailty of life
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 28 March 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Prior to winning the Oscar for Best Actor, Will Smith ran up on stage after Chris Rock had made a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Smith slapped Rock. In other attention-grabbing news, the war in Ukraine continues, as do efforts to help, such as Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov stating that he would auction off his Nobel Peace Prize to help Ukrainian refugees. In The Daily Article for March 28, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers these stories and more as evidence of our human frailty and fallenness, then looks to prayer and our call to abide in Jesus as the answer.
Author: Dr. Jim Denison
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Article Podcast for Monday, March the 28th, 2022. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article by Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:14.0 | Coda made history last night as the first film distributed by a streaming service to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. |
| 0:23.4 | Jessica Chastain won her first Oscar when she was named Best Actress for The Eyes of Tammy |
| 0:30.3 | Faye and Will Smith received his first Academy Award when he won for Best Actor in King |
| 0:37.3 | Richard. |
| 0:38.4 | But the headline story is that after comedian Chris Rock made a joke about actor Smith's |
| 0:45.4 | wife during the evening, Smith ran up on stage and struck Rock in the face. |
| 0:52.5 | He later apologized to the Academy and to all my fellow nominees |
| 0:57.4 | during his acceptance speech. |
| 0:59.8 | Of course, the conflict on everyone's mind and heart |
| 1:02.7 | is the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. |
| 1:05.4 | Several attendees at the Oscars paid tribute |
| 1:08.5 | to Ukraine in various ways, |
| 1:13.8 | actress Mila Kunis, who was born in Ukraine, |
| 1:16.6 | has partnered with her husband, Ashton Kutcher, |
| 1:22.7 | to raise more than $35 million in humanitarian aid for the Ukrainian people. |
| 1:24.8 | Kunis said, and I quote, |
| 1:28.5 | Recent global events have left many of us feeling gutted. Yet when you witness the strength and dignity of those facing such devastation, |
| 1:34.0 | it's impossible to not be moved by their resilience. |
| 1:37.9 | One cannot help but be in awe of those who find strength to keep fighting through |
| 1:43.2 | unimaginable darkness." |
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