Good day and welcome to the Daily Article podcast for Thursday, July the 20th,

2020. I'm Chris Elkins, narrating today's article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO,

Dr. Jim Denison.

One winning ticket was sold in downtown Los Angeles for last night's $1.08 billion

powerball jackpot.

If you think being the winner would solve all your problems, however, think again.

From lawsuits to demanding relatives, divorces, robberies, drug overdoses, bankruptcies, and

even murders, the stories illustrate

Jean-Jacques-Rousseau's Maxim. Money buys everything, except morality and citizens.

Americans are wealthier than we were 50 years ago, but we're not happier. For example,

in the last year, the 9-88 suicide and crisis lifeline answered nearly

five million contacts, nearly two million more than in the previous 12 months. In a recent poll,

69% of Americans said that things are going either pretty or very badly in our country. Among

the factors they cited are the economy, partisanship and political divides, violence, and immigration.

Anxiety is the most common mental disorder in the U.S.

In my wife's excellent recent blog on anxiety and thankfulness, she notes that experiences of high psychological distress

are especially widespread among young adults. This is a problem for the rest of us as well. In a recent

survey, 62% of respondents reported experiencing some degree of anxiety. However, as we continue our emphasis this week on the urgency

of spiritual renewal for America's future, I'd like to shift from the negative to the positive,

albeit in a way that may not seem obvious at first. Walter Russell Mead begins his brilliant

new article, quote, referring to polling data indicating that Sweden was

the least religious country in the world and India the most, sociologist Peter Berger used to say

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