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Friday, May 7, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 9:53):
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No Institution Is Safe from the Moral Revolution, Not Even a Foster Care and Adoption Agency: Just Look at What’s Happening in Kentucky

COURIER JOURNAL (DEBORAH YETTER)
Baptist group refuses Kentucky state contract to provide care for abused, neglected kids

KENTUCKY TODAY (BRANDON PORTER)
Sunrise seeks dialogue with Cabinet, at risk of being denied contract

PART 2 (9:54 - 20:23):
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Continued Capitulation to the Moral Revolutionaries—Putting the Well-Being of Vulnerable Children at Stake

BETHANY CHRISTIAN SERVICES
What the Pandemic Taught Us: Innovative Practice Report

NEWSWEEK (NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY)
Wokeness Has Come for Adoption. It's the Children Who Will Suffer

ASSOCIATED PRESS (DAVID CRARY)
Many say now is the time to fight racial bias in foster care

PART 3 (20:24 - 24:23):
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Corporate America Lines Up to Get on “The Right Side of History”: More Than 400 Major Companies Publicly Support the Equality Act

CHRISTIAN HEADLINES (MICHAEL FOUST)
Disney among 400 U.S. Companies Backing Equality Act, which Experts Say Targets Religious Liberty

Thursday, May 6, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 13:0):
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A Clash of Two Rival Orthodoxies—And President Biden and Speaker Pelosi Are Right in the Middle of the Controversy

ARCHBISHOP OF SAN FRANCISCO (SALVATORE JOSEPH CORDILEONE)
Before I Formed You in the Womb I Knew You: A Pastoral Letter on the Human Dignity of the Unborn, Holy Communion, and Catholics in Public Life

PART 2 (13:1 - 19:6):
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There’s a Civil War Within the Catholic Church: Which Vision for the Future of the Roman Catholic Church Will Prevail?

ALBERT MOHLER
A Chilling Account and a Word of Warning

PART 3 (19:7 - 25:19):
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The U.S. Birth Rate Continues to Plummet: There’s Much More Going on Here Than Just Economics. The Central Issue Is Moral

NEW YORK TIMES (SABRINA TAVERNISE)
The pandemic may have accelerated the American drop in birthrates.

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 15:55):
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A Government Takeover of Raising Children: What’s at Stake in President Biden’s Plan to Expand Government-Funded Child Care?

NEW YORK TIMES (PAUL KRUGMAN)
Biden and the Future of the Family

WALL STREET JOURNAL (J.D. VANCE AND JENET ERICKSON)
Biden’s Daycare Plan Is Bad for Families

NEW YORK TIMES (MICHELLE GOLDBERG)
America Is Brutal to Parents. Biden Is Trying to Change That.

PART 2 (15:56 - 22:47):
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When We Talk about a Parent Staying Home to Care for Children, Do We Really Mean a Mom? Actually, We Do.

WASHINGTON POST (JILL FILIPOVIC)
Conservatives say they want to help ‘parents’ stay home. They mean mothers.

PART 3 (22:48 - 24:25):
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The Left Claims to Know What’s Best for Moms: Examining an Audacious Claim from the Social Elites

NEW YORK TIMES (DAVID BROOKS)
Give Power to the Parents!

PART 4 (24:26 - 27:8):
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You Can Buy a Smoothie Maker in France, But Not a Desk Lamp? The Expansive French Bureaucracy Makes No Sense and Never Backs Down

NEW YORK TIMES (ROGER COHEN)
The Entangling, Ever-Extending Labyrinth of French Lockdowns

John 18:1-11

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Tuesday, May 4, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 14:24):
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“Male and Female Created He Them” — Another Important Biblical Distinction Christians Must Affirm

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO (MELISSA BLOCK)
Idaho's Transgender Sports Ban Faces A Major Legal Hurdle

PART 2 (14:25 - 17:34):
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A Mass Delusion Demanding Universal Capitulation: Two Rival Justice Claims Square Off in Idaho and in California Over Transgender Persons Competing in Women’s Sports

FORBES (DAWN ENNIS)
Caitlyn Jenner Turned Her Back On Trans Kids To Get Republican Votes

WASHINGTON POST (DES BIELER)
Caitlyn Jenner says she opposes transgender girls competing in girls’ sports

PART 3 (17:35 - 25:40):
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Why Do Revolutions Rarely Ever Deliver on Their Promises? A Look at the Failed Paris Commune on the 150th Anniversary of Its Fall

Monday, May 3, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 12:13):
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Scientists Blend Cells to Form Human-Monkey Chimera: The Absolute Necessity of Maintaining the Distinctions That Scripture Makes

TIME MAGAZINE (ALICE PARK)
Scientists Report Creating the First Embryo With Human and Non-Human Primate Cells

NATURE (NIDHI SUBBARAMAN)
First monkey–human embryos reignite debate over hybrid animals

PART 2 (12:14 - 18:5):
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Is Human Dignity Just Considered a Taboo Now? When You Surrender One Part of the Biblical Worldview, the Eventual Unraveling of the Whole Worldview Is Predictable

THE ECONOMIST
Researchers have created embryos that are part-human and part-monkey

THE ECONOMIST
The creation of part-human, part-monkey embryos will discomfit many

PART 3 (18:6 - 26:32):
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There’s a Clear Distinction Between Biblical Marriage and Every Other Type of Human Relationship: Will We Deny or Display the Glory of God?

NEW YORK TIMES (DANIELLE BRAFF)
From Best Friends to Platonic Spouses

Friday, April 30, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 13:14):
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An Increasingly Godless America: Good Thing or Bad Thing? The Answer Depends Completely on Your Worldview

GALLUP (JEFFREY M. JONES)
U.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time

LOS ANGELES TIMES (PHIL ZUCKERMAN)
Why America’s record godlessness is good news for the nation

THINKING IN PUBLIC WITH ALBERT MOHLER
A Comprehensively Secular Life? A Conversation with Professor Phil Zuckerman

PART 2 (13:15 - 24:18):
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Considering an Argument About to Explode Before Our Eyes: Is Christianity Just Another Form of Identity Politics?

THE GUARDIAN (MARION MADDOX)
Scott Morrison is not the first prime minister with religious beliefs. What is different this time?

PART 3 (24:19 - 27:35):
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The Left Is Moving So Quickly to the Far Left That No One Can Keep Up . . . Not Even Yesterday’s Humanist Hero, Richard Dawkins

THE GUARDIAN (ALISON FLOOD)
Richard Dawkins loses ‘humanist of the year’ title over trans comments

Thursday, April 29, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 16:4):
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President Biden Addresses Joint Session of Congress: What’s the Big Meaning of the President’s Vast Proposals?

PART 2 (16:5 - 19:21):
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President Biden Unveils His Proposal to Redefine American Society Through Unprecedented Spending . . . And Shows That His Greatest Political Skill Is Tone

PART 3 (19:22 - 25:20):
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The LGBTQ Revolution Is Officially a Part of American Foreign Policy as the “Pride Flag” Is Authorized to Fly on Flagpoles at American Embassies and Consulates Around the World

NEW YORK TIMES (PRANSHU VERMA)
State Department authorizes U.S. embassies to fly the Pride Flag.

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 7:26):
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A Major Crisis in the United Methodist Church: As the Denomination Heads Toward Division, Liberals Try to Gain Power While Theological Conservatives Prepare to Leave

RELIGION NEWS SERVICE (EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER)
Prominent Georgia church leaves United Methodist Church over pastor’s reassignment

PART 2 (7:27 - 19:7):
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Two Religions Can’t Exist Within One Denomination: A Prominent Methodist Church in Georgia Makes a Courageous Stand Against Theological Liberalism

TIMOTHY TENNENT
How the Trust Clause Got Turned on Its Head

PART 3 (19:8 - 25:32):
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The Unimaginable Becomes Reality: When a Drag Queen Becomes the Latest Candidate for Ministry in Your Church, You've Completely Abandoned the Christian Tradition

RELIGION NEWS SERVICE (EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER)
First drag queen certified as a candidate for United Methodist ministry ‘speaking in a new way to new people’

Spycraft and Soulcraft on the Front Lines of History: A Conversation with Former CIA Chief of Counterintelligence James Olson

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