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Friday, December 17, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 4:26):
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The FDA Loosens Regulations on Mail-Order Abortions and Canada Bans Conversion Therapy—Ominous Developments We’ll Be Tracking into the New Year

PART 2 (4:27 - 10:9):
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The News Here is Not the Fact of Secularization, but its Velocity: Pew Research Shows 3 Out of 10 Now ‘Religiously Unaffiliated’

PEW RESEARCH CENTER
About Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated

PART 3 (10:10 - 14:25):
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To Whom Does Christmas Really Matter? To Those Who Believe the Son of God Was Born to the Virgin Mary in Bethlehem

PART 4 (14:26 - 17:6):
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What Does It Mean That Jesus is God’s Son? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing

PART 5 (17:7 - 20:49):
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How Should Christian Parents Raise Children in the Culture of Santa Claus? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing

PART 6 (20:50 - 26:18):
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Do Nativity Scenes Violate the Second Commandment? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing

Thursday, December 16, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 11:47):
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‘My Femininity Does Not Define Me’: Historic Women’s College Faces Reckoning of the LGBTQ+ Revolution As Non-Binary Students Demand Recognition

NPR (MELISSA BLOCK)
Who Belongs at a Women's College in 2021? Students Want Admissions Policies to Change

PART 2 (11:48 - 24:1):
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Who Should and Who Should Not Vote? New York City Just Decided Citizenship is Not an Issue in Determining the Answer to that Question — What is at Stake?

NEW YORK TIMES (JEFFERY C. MAYS AND ANNIE CORREAL)
New York Moves to Allow 800,000 Noncitizens to Vote in Local Elections

WASHINGTON POST (MARIA SACCHETTI)
New York City Becomes the Largest Municipality in the U.S. to Allow Noncitizens to Vote in Local Elections

PART 3 (24:2 - 26:19):
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The Revolutionaries Will Come for Everyone. This Time it is Wonder Woman as Comic Book Series Reveals She Has A Girlfriend (and a Boyfriend).

NBC NEWS (TAT BELLAMY-WALKER)
Wonder Woman has a Superhero Girlfriend in New DC Comics Series

Authoritative Parents and the Rise of the Modern State: A Conversation with Political Philosopher Rita Koganzon

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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 9:47):
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‘A Dollar Does Not Buy What It Used To’: A Christian Worldview Analysis of Inflation and its Effects

WALL STREET JOURNAL (GERARD BAKER)
Biden Seems Set on Making ‘Transitory’ Inflation Last

NEW YORK TIMES (JEANNA SMIALEK)
No More 99 Cent Pizza: Why Washington Is Getting Worried About Inflation

PART 2 (9:48 - 21:26):
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How Did Money Come to Be? The Necessity of Trust in the Function of Currency

DORF ON LAW (NEIL H. BUCHANAN)
If You're Explaining, Everyone's Losing (Platinum Coin Edition)

NEW YORK TIMES (PETER COY)
Can We Trust What’s Happening to Money?

PART 3 (21:27 - 25:40):
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Dollar Tree is Raising Its Price to $1.25 Turns Out to Be a Metaphor for the Modern Economy

NPR
Unpacking the Dollar Tree Price Hike

The Temptations of an Evangelical Theologian: ETS Presidential Address 2021

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Tuesday, December 14, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 10:58):
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The Sanctity of Human Life Is a Theological Issue — And Now Now Political Analysts Are Getting the Picture, With Very Interesting Insights

NEW YORK TIMES (NATE COHN)
Some Voters Are at Odds With Their Party on Abortion

PART 2 (10:59 - 13:41):
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Big Worldview Issues and Politics Collide in the Battle Over Congressional Redistricting

PART 3 (13:42 - 24:48):
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Do Pro-Life Americans Want to "Take Away" a Civil Right (Abortion)? No, Because There Is No Right to Abort an Unborn Baby

NEW YORK TIMES (CHARLES M. BLOW)
We’re Edging Closer to Civil War

Monday, December 13, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 10:0):
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Longing for the New Creation: Responding to the Vast Devastation as Mid-South — Especially Western Kentucky — Is Ravaged by Tornadoes

PART 2 (10:1 - 20:12):
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Objective Truth, Justice, and the Category of ‘Hate Crime’: Evaluating the Guilty Verdicts Against Jussie Smollett

LA TIMES (NARDINE SAAD)
Black Lives Matter Stands with Jussie Smollett after Verdict, but Don Lemon Does Not

PART 3 (20:13 - 22:7):
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The Battle for Life Goes On: Supreme Court Upholds Texas Abortion Ban — For Now.

PART 4 (22:8 - 25:20):
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Gen Z Group Attempts to ‘Fight Lunacy with Lunacy’ — But the Best Remedy to Untruth is Truth, Not Lunacy

NEW YORK TIMES (TAYLOR LORENZ)
Birds Aren’t Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory.

Leviticus 8:1–9:8

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And He Shall Stand and Shepherd His Flock in the Strength of the Lord

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Friday, December 10, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 6:11):
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Chile Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage — A Sign of Vast Social and Moral Change in Latin America

NEW YORK TIMES (PASCALE BONNEFOY AND ERNESTO LONDOñO)
Chile Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage at Fraught Political Moment

PART 2 (6:12 - 11:20):
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Scott Peterson Sentenced to Life in Prison Without Parole for Killing His Pregnant Wife Confirmed — Rightly Convicted of Two Killings, Not One

LA TIMES (DON THOMPSON)
Scott Peterson Re-Sentenced to Life Term in Laci Peterson’s 2002 Death

PART 3 (11:21 - 13:26):
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Author Constance Ahrons Dies at 84 — But Her Idea of the “Good Divorce” Has Gained Ground

NEW YORK TIMES (KATHARINE Q. SEELYE)
Constance Ahrons, Advocate of ‘Good Divorce,’ Dies at 84

PART 4 (13:27 - 17:8):
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What are the Possible Outcomes of the Mississippi Abortion Case? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing

PART 5 (17:9 - 18:14):
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Does Investing in China Lead to Westernization? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing

PART 6 (18:15 - 20:17):
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Why Should We Not Just ‘Flush and Forget’? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing

PART 7 (20:18 - 22:17):
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Is It Wrong for Christians to Think About A Trimester Understanding of Pregnancy? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing

PART 8 (22:18 - 23:51):
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Will You Discuss Why 5 of 6 Justices Who Voted in Favor of Roe Were Appointed by Republican Presidents? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing

PART 9 (23:52 - 26:14):
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In the Case of Stare Decisis, When Is It Appropriate for the Supreme Court to Supersede and Overrule the Will of the People? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing