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Tuesday, March 8, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 6:49):
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The ‘Breadbasket of Europe’ is Endangered: War in Ukraine Threatens Global Food Supply, Possibly for Years to Come

LA TIMES (MAXIMO TORERO)
Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Should Not Cause a Hunger Crisis

ASSOCIATED PRESS (JOSEPH WILSON, SAMY MAGDY, AYA BATRAWY, AND CHINEDU ASADU)
Russian War in World’s ‘Breadbasket’ Threatens Food Supply

PART 2 (6:50 - 12:45):
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Stand with Dictators and You Will Fall with Them: There Is No Separation of Culture and Morality — The Case of a Russian Orchestra Conductor With Time on His Hands

LA TIMES (JONATHAN ROSENBERG)
A Putin Supporter’s Carnegie Hall Appearance was Canceled. Should Art be Separated from Politics?

PART 3 (12:46 - 20:1):
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The Cannabis Culture Has No Brakes: California State Fair Officials Establish Competition Category for Most Potent Marijuana. Are They High?

LA TIMES (THE TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD)
Are State Fair Officials High? They Should Not Reward Super-Potent Marijuana

PART 4 (20:2 - 24:32):
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The Spreading Logic of Gambling: Sports Betting Arrives as the Latest Temptation

LA TIMES (JOHN MYERS AND TARYN LUNA)
California Voters Lean Toward Legalizing Sports Betting in New Poll

Saving evangelicalism?

Verily, verily, I say unto you, The New York Times is very concerned about saving evangelicalism. Yesterday, the nation's newspaper of record devoted three entire print pages of its "Review" section to a massive essay by columnist David Brooks titled "The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism." In the online version, the headline added, "From It... The post Saving evangelicalism? appeared first on AlbertMohler.com.

Monday, March 7, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 8:30):
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Tracking Developments in Ukraine: U.S. Declines Zelenskyy’s Request for a No-Fly Zone and Putin Criminalizes Any Citizen Who Refers to Russia’s War in Ukraine as ‘War’

NEW YORK TIMES (ANTON TROIANOVSKI)
Russia Takes Censorship to New Extremes, Stifling War Coverage

PART 2 (8:31 - 11:29):
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‘Taking Dictators Literally and Seriously’: Putin Stated Clearly His Determinations over Ukraine — Will the World Learn to Take Dictators at Their Word?

WALL STREET JOURNAL (THE EDITORIAL BOARD)
Taking Dictators Literally and Seriously

PART 3 (11:30 - 18:52):
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Two Contradictory Moralities Evident in One Nation: Two States (California & Florida) Present Polar Opposite Laws on Abortion Access in Preparation for Possible Overturning of Roe v. Wade

LA TIMES (MELODY GUTIERREZ)
More California Nurse Practitioners could Work Independently, Offer Abortions under New Bill

PART 4 (18:53 - 25:3):
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SCOTUS Votes to Reinstate Federal Death Penalty in Boston Marathon Terror Case , but President Biden has Threatened to Block Any Executions — What is at Stake?

Friday, March 4, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 17:56):
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Reordering the Justice System in the Name of Social Justice by Redefining the Role of the District Attorney — And Attempts to Recall Leftist Prosecutors




PART 2 (17:57 - 19:41):
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Does Peter’s Command to Honor Authority Include Evil Leaders? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing




PART 3 (19:42 - 22:0):
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Is Sexual Orientation or Sexual Behavior Outside of God’s Design Sin? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing




PART 4 (22:1 - 25:12):
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When God Commanded Israel to Invade the Canaanites, Was That a Precedent for Other Nations? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, March 3, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 7:1):
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Christian Just War Theory: Some Principles for Thinking Christianly in Light of Attacks on Civilian Areas in Ukraine

PART 2 (7:2 - 13:47):
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War in Ukraine Brings a Return to Objective Truth in Post-Christian Europe: The Sobering Reality of War and Moral Urgency to Confront Truth

NEW YORK TIMES (ROGER COHEN)
A Surge of Unifying Moral Outrage Over Russia’s War

PART 3 (13:48 - 19:30):
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The Oligarch Paradox: So What is Oligarchy, and What’s behind the Western Strategy to Force Russia's Oligarchs to Suffer?

PART 4 (19:31 - 25:26):
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Various Aspects of Culture Coalesce around a Moral Judgment as FIFA and the Metropolitan Opera Cancel Russia: The Inescapability and Comprehensiveness of the Biblical Worldview

NEW YORK TIMES (JAVIER C. HERNáNDEZ)
Metropolitan Opera Says It Will Cut Ties With Pro-Putin Artists

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 15:6):
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The State of the Union Address and America’s Constitutional Order: President Joe Biden Delivers State of the Union Address to the Nation

NEW YORK TIMES
Full Transcript of Biden’s State of the Union Address

PART 2 (15:7 - 17:40):
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Governor Greg Abbott Set to Face Beto O’Rourke in Epic Texas Gubernatorial Race — Upcoming Midterm Elections Will Determine Who Sits in Many Governorships

PART 3 (17:41 - 24:33):
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Precedents Should Stand Even if Wrong? What is the Point of the Supreme Court if It Stands on Its Mistakes Rather than the Constitution?

LA TIMES (NICHOLAS GOLDBERG)
Who Says the Supreme Court Shouldn’t Overrule its Precedents? When It Needs to, It Should

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 2:40):
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‘I Need Ammunition, Not A Ride’: A Profile of Moral and Political Courage In Ukraine as Brave Nation Continues to Hold Off Russia’s Invasion

PART 2 (2:41 - 8:50):
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Historic Day for Abortion Issue as Vote on Women’s Health Protection Act—Radical Pro-Abortion Legislation—Fails to Move Forward in U.S. Senate

LA TIMES (THE EDITORIAL BOARD)
This Bill May be the Only Thing that Guarantees Women’s Reproductive Rights

PART 3 (8:51 - 15:11):
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What is Behind the “Women’s Health Protection Act?” A Bill Far More Radical Than Roe v. Wade and an Attempt at a Complete Reversal of Pro-Life Movement’s Progress of the Last Half Century

PART 4 (15:12 - 20:11):
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New Research Shows Half of U.S. Abortions Now Performed by Pill in Ominous Development for Life in the Womb

NEW YORK TIMES (PAM BELLUCK)
Abortion Pills Now Account for More Than Half of U.S. Abortions

LA TIMES (STEPHEN GROVES)
South Dakota Governor and Fellow Republicans Take Aim at Abortion Pills

PART 5 (20:12 - 24:27):
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Political Drama Played Out Before Our Eyes: President Joe Biden to Deliver First State of the Union Address and First Primary Election in Texas in Important Day for the American People

Monday, February 28, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 14:42):
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A Medieval Mind with Modern Nuclear Weapons: Grappling with Vladimir Putin’s Worldview and the Deadly Danger of Autocracy

WALL STREET JOURNAL (MICHAEL R. GORDON, STEPHEN FIDLER, ALLAN CULLISON)
How the West Misread Vladimir Putin

PART 2 (14:43 - 23:36):
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Elections Have Consequences: President Joe Biden Nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to Fill the Seat of Justice Stephen Breyer

PART 3 (23:37 - 26:2):
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Who is and is Not Pro-Life? Who Is Pro-Abortion? Each Senator to be Forced to Cast Vote on National Abortion Bill in What Will be a Telling, Historic Day for the Abortion Question in America

Wednesday, February 23, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 9:4):
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There are Always Bigger Issues at Stake in World Affairs: the Revelation of God, the Creation of the Material World, the Imago Dei, and the Morality of the Crisis in Ukraine

PART 2 (9:5 - 17:4):
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The View of the World History Through the Eyes of Vladimir Putin: the Legacy of the Autocrat, the Drive for a Greater Russia, and the Reclamation of Russian Glory

VETERANS TODAY (VT EDITORS)
Vladimir Putin: Full Text of February 21, 2022 Speech

WALL STREET JOURNAL (WALTER RUSSELL MEAD)
Why Putin Is Outfoxing the West

PART 3 (17:5 - 23:59):
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Where Do We Go from Here? What Do We Do Now? Disappearing Options on the World Stage

WASHINGTON POST (PHILIP BUMP)
‘Genius,’ ‘Savvy’: Trump reacts to Putin’s moves on Ukraine exactly as you’d expect

Theologian, Pastor, Reformer, Soldier? Ulrich Zwingli Reconsidered – A Conversation with Historian Bruce Gordon

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