Jim Denison

1 week ago | denisonforum.org | Jim Denison

A memorial for Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark is seen at the state Capitol, Sunday, June 15, 2025, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV) Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were fatally shot in their home early Saturday morning in what Gov.

2 weeks ago | denisonforum.org | Jim Denison

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Today is my father’s birthday. Like today, he was born on a Friday the thirteenth. He would have turned 101 today. However, he lived barely half that long, dying in 1979 of a heart attack at the age of fifty-five. Each year, his birthday gives me pause. It is an inexpressible thing to have outlived my father now by twelve years.

2 weeks ago | denisonforum.org | Jim Denison

I remember being in a Tel Aviv hotel with a tour group when hostilities with Hamas in Gaza suddenly broke out. Our guides had to show us the location of the bomb shelters built into the foundation of the hotel (most Israeli hotels and public buildings have them). They explained how we were to access them and described the warning sirens that would alert us to do so. Fortunately, the night passed without incident, and the event became only a memory.

2 weeks ago | denisonforum.org | Jim Denison

People stand around the debris of an airplane after it crashed in India's northwestern city of Ahmedabad in Gujarat state, Thursday, June 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki) Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A Boeing passenger plane bound for London crashed soon after taking off in India early this morning.

2 weeks ago | denisonforum.org | Jim Denison

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Three boys were bragging about their fathers. The first said, “My dad writes some words on paper and calls it a lawsuit, and they pay him for it.” The second said, “Yeah, well, my dad writes some words on paper and calls it a prescription, and they pay him for it.” The third said, “Well, my dad writes some words on a paper and calls it a sermon.