It’s not always easy to find good news in the news. Here’s a story that encouraged me greatly: two cousins who survived the Holocaust have been reunited seventy-five years later.

Morris Sana and Simon Mairowitz fled from the Nazis during World War II. Sana last remembered seeing Mairowitz in Romania. Sana’s brothers had already been murdered. He escaped with his sister and mother, traveling at night and often sleeping between dead bodies during the day to avoid detection. 

Mairowitz escaped with his sister through the help of an English colonel. He grew up in England, while Sana eventually immigrated to Israel. A relative working on her family’s genealogy led to their reconnection. 

The Holocaust is the starkest reminder I know that ideas change the world. 

In the late nineteenth century, Darwinian concepts of evolution were applied to social problems. The result was the eugenics (“good genetics”) movement to improve the human population by excluding those deemed inferior and promoting those deemed superior. 

Following World War I, eugenics were combined with the claim to German racial superiority, leading to a program to “cleanse” German society of those identified as threats to the nation’s “health.” Among them were European Jews, six million of whom were eventually murdered. 

What motivates 75 percent of all charitable giving? 

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker tweeted this morning that agreement has been reached between the UK and EU on a new withdrawal deal. “Brexit” is an idea that will have profound effects on Great Britain and Europe. 

Closer to home, California’s governor recently signed legislation mandating free medical abortion services at its public colleges. It…

Six-year-old Noah Ponzer was one of twenty-six people killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre. As the grandfather of a five-year-old, I cannot begin to imagine the pain his parents and other families have endured in the years since.

However, conspiracy theories began spreading online almost immediately after the shooting, with some speculating that the tragedy was staged to generate support for gun-control laws. Grieving families became targets. Some were accused of being actors paid to play a role. 

Noah’s father, Lenny Ponzer, has tried to stop people from spreading such lies and from harassing him and other grieving families. He received death threats as a result. 

In June, Mr. Ponzer won a defamation case against editors of a book that claimed no one died in the Newtown, Connecticut, tragedy and that his son’s death certificate was a fake. This week, a jury awarded him $450,000 in damages from one of the book’s editors. 

Why has the youth suicide rate increased 56 percent? 

We’ve been discussing this week the power of ideas—whether they are positive or evil—to change the world. John F. Kennedy was right: “A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.” 

However, to change the world, we must sometimes retreat from the world. 

Work predated the Fall and is part of God’s design for us (Genesis 2:15). But overwork is a symptom of a culture that measures us by what we do, how much we do, and how fast we do it. 

As with any time we step out of our Creator’s plan for us, the costs outweigh the benefits. 

A new study indicates that people who regularly work more than ten hours a day for at least fifty days a year are at a 29 percent greater risk of stroke. The risk rises to 45 percent for…

Note from Dr. Jim Denison: I am grateful to my son, Ryan Denison, for writing The Daily Article this week while I am traveling. Ryan is a graduate of Baylor University and Truett Seminary and is completing his doctoral dissertation in church history at BH Carroll Theological Institute. He serves as Senior Fellow for Theology with our ministry and writes often in my absence. I am certain you will find his insights to be both biblical and practical.

Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are no strangers to the media. As part of the royal family, Harry and his brother have been lightning rods for global attention since their birth. That attention only increased after their mother, Princess Diana, died in a car accident while trying to get away from the paparazzi. 

As an actress prior to becoming a princess, Meghan Markle was also no stranger to being the center of attention, whether it was wanted or not. As a recent interview with British television channel ITV demonstrates, however, experience with being trapped in the public eye does not make it any easier to bear. 

The couple recently took a ten-day trip to Africa to work with several charities and check up on much of the work that Harry’s mother began prior to her tragic death. They spoke excitedly about all the progress being made and the joy they felt in getting the chance to be part of it, but there were also candid moments of grief when the conversation veered toward their strained relationship with the media. The most poignant was Meghan’s reply to anchor Tom Bradby’s question regarding how she was holding up after recently giving birth to the couple’s first child. 

The Duchess replied, “Thank you for asking because not many people have asked if I’m OK, but it’s a very real thing to be going through behind the…