This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians.

To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com.

Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

April Fool's Day has seldom seemed less appropriate than in the midst of the coronavirus

pandemic.

But in the spirit of the day, let's begin with the story of a woman in New Jersey who violated

her state's stay-at-home order when she allegedly tossed a Molotov cocktail at her boyfriend's

residence. She has been charged with a disorderly person's offense for violating the governor's order.

As you might expect, she also faces arson and weapons charges.

Fortunately, as the Attorney General's office noted, her weapon did not detonate.

For some more good news in this April 1st, a giant potentially hazardous asteroid will miss us this

month. NASA has named the asteroid 1998 OR2. It is about the width of Manhattan Island

and could wreak havoc if it crashed into Earth. However, at its

closest, it will be 3.9 million miles from us, more than 16 times the average distance between

us and the moon. You won't see it again until May 18, 2013. It will return again in 2048, 2062, and 2079, when it will be only 1.1 million miles away.

When I heard about 1998 OR2, here was my thought, how do NASA's experts know how far it will be from us,

or when it will return. I had a similar question while walking early yesterday

morning. Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter were all visible in the pre-dawn sky, or so a website told me.

I would have otherwise been unable to name them, or know that they are planets in our solar system.

As I continued walking, I realized I don't know how to make anything

that I saw. I don't know how to make bricks, much less a brick house. I don't know how to make a car's

fender, much less an entire car. I couldn't make the concrete on which I was walking or the clothes I

...