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Halloween offers a rare moment when a death-avoidant culture becomes openly fascinated with mortality, cemeteries, and the afterlife. Christians once worshiped among the graves of fellow believers, viewing death through the hope of resurrection rather than fear, and even Halloween itself developed partly through Christian efforts to redirect pagan traditions toward faith. Today, the holiday can still create opportunities to talk about death and eternal hope—but engaging it wisely requires discernment rather than either embracing everything or avoiding it out of fear.About Denison Forum and The Daily ArticleToday’s Daily Article was written by Dr. Ryan Denison. You can read this article on our website. You may also receive it in your inbox by subscribing to our newsletter.NOTE: Denison Forum is a fully donor-funded nonprofit ministry. To support our calling, please donate today.

Cuba’s collapse has left its people facing deteriorating infrastructure, shortages, and a government many increasingly blame for their suffering. The crisis offers a sobering picture of what can happen when a nation builds itself around a human ideology rather than God. Scripture warns that the same danger exists in every heart: whatever replaces God eventually gives us less than he intended. So what might the idols we tolerate reveal about whom—or what—we truly worship?About Denison Forum and The Daily ArticleToday’s Daily Article was written by Dr. Jim Denison. You can read this article on our website. You may also receive it in your inbox by subscribing to our newsletter.NOTE: Denison Forum is a fully donor-funded nonprofit ministry. To support our calling, please donate today.

Dictionary.com named “maxxing” its 2026 Word of the Year, capturing a culture increasingly focused on optimizing life according to our own priorities. At the same time, recent riots in France illustrate the danger of a society in which individuals claim the right to determine not only what is best but what is justified. In a post-truth culture with fewer shared moral standards, Christians have a vital alternative to offer: biblical truth that does more than guide behavior—it confronts the heart and calls us toward repentance.About Denison Forum and The Daily ArticleToday’s Daily Article was written by Dr. Jim Denison. You can read this article on our website. You may also receive it in your inbox by subscribing to our newsletter.NOTE: Denison Forum is a fully donor-funded nonprofit ministry. To support our calling, please donate today.

A Minnesota store clerk is being hailed as a hero after jumping onto a runaway school bus and stopping it before nearly twenty children were hurt. His selfless actions are an encouraging reminder of the goodness people are capable of—but other headlines reveal humanity’s darker impulses just as clearly. America’s founders and Alexis de Tocqueville believed religion and morality were essential to sustaining a free society. As faith loses its cultural influence, what will provide the moral restraint that freedom requires?About Denison Forum and The Daily ArticleToday’s Daily Article was written by Dr. Jim Denison. You can read this article on our website. You may also receive it in your inbox by subscribing to our newsletter.NOTE: Denison Forum is a fully donor-funded nonprofit ministry. To support our calling, please donate today.

Massive France protests over school funding and rising living costs have drawn comparisons to the French Revolution and renewed questions about the country’s secular foundations. But the tension between religion and secularism is not confined to France. American culture can quietly train even committed Christians to treat God as a means to our own happiness and success rather than as Lord. Resisting that influence requires more than belief—it requires the daily choice to surrender control and let Jesus lead.About Denison Forum and The Daily ArticleToday’s Daily Article was written by Dr. Jim Denison. You can read this article on our website. You may also receive it in your inbox by subscribing to our newsletter.NOTE: Denison Forum is a fully donor-funded nonprofit ministry. To support our calling, please donate today.