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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 11:1):
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Which States Are Gaining or Losing Seats in Congress, and Why? Census Data Point to Big Shifts in American Population and Politics

PART 2 (11:2 - 21:19):
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The Politics of Celebrity and the LGBTQ Revolution: Gov. Gavin Newsom to Face Recall Election in California and the Individual Identified as Caitlyn Jenner Plans to Enter the Race

PART 3 (21:20 - 26:4):
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The LGBTQ Revolution Is the Great Dividing Line in American Culture: Seattle Police Chief Withdraws Invitation to Dinner Hosted by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

SEATTLE TIMES (SARA JEAN GREEN)
Seattle police chief rescinds dinner invitation sent by evangelical group known for anti-LGBTQ stance

Monday, April 26, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 9:31):
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President Biden Officially Recognizes the Massacre of the Armenians in 1915-1917 as Genocide: What’s the Historical Background to This Story?

WASHINGTON POST (JOHN HUDSON AND KAREEM FAHIM)
Biden calls mass killing of Armenians a ‘genocide’ in break with previous presidents

PART 2 (9:32 - 14:38):
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The Importance of Moral Clarity: Why We Must Call Evil by Its Right Name

PART 3 (14:39 - 25:3):
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Manhattan Decides to Look the Other Way on Prostitution: The Revolution in Morality Reaches “Sex Workers”

NEW YORK TIMES (JONAH E. BROMWICH)
Manhattan to Stop Prosecuting Prostitution, Part of Nationwide Shift

ELIZA ORLINS FOR MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Sex Work Decriminalization

Friday, April 23, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 8:31):
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A Christian University’s Faculty Is Outraged the Board of Trustees Did Not Surrender to the LGBTQ Revolution: What’s Going On Here?

SEATTLE TIMES (ELISE TAKAHAMA)
Seattle Pacific University faculty votes ‘no confidence’ in leadership after board upholds discriminatory hiring policy

RELIGION NEWS SERVICE (YONAT SHIMRON)
Seattle Pacific University faculty vote no confidence in board over LGBTQ exclusion

PART 2 (8:32 - 20:20):
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Christian Institutions, Don’t Sow the Seeds of Your Own Destruction: The Necessity of Only Admitting Students and Hiring Faculty Who Eagerly Affirm Christian Moral and Theological Convictions

SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
Seattle Pacific University’s Behavioral and Community Expectations

KING 5 (MICHAEL CROWE)
Seattle Pacific University students rally to support gay professor after discrimination claims

PART 3 (20:21 - 26:8):
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Where Government Money Goes, the Government’s Hand Goes Too: The Federal Government Flexes Its Coercive Powers Against a Christian University

CHRISTIAN POST (BRANDON SHOWALTER)
Christian university sues to block HUD order forcing male student placement in female dorms

Thursday, April 22, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 17:16):
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Will Christian Prayer and Preaching and Parental Conversations Be Declared Illegal? Urgent Questions Arise in Great Britain and Australia — And Will Not Stop There

EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE (PETER LYNAS)
Letter from Evangelical Alliance to Prime Minister Boris Johnson

10 DOWNING STREET (BORIS JOHNSON)
Letter from Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Evangelical Alliance

PART 2 (17:17 - 21:35):
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Threats to Religious Liberty Increase Around the World as Governments Bans on “Conversion Therapy” Extend to Basic Christianity and Gospel Ministry

CATHOLIC NEWS AGENCY
Australian ‘conversion therapy’ ban has dangerous flaws, say religious leaders

CHRISTIAN CONCERN (ANDREA WILLIAMS)
Can we trust Boris on ‘conversion therapy’?

PART 3 (21:36 - 23:52):
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Banning the “Pernicious Power of Prayer”? Faithful Christians Must Not Be Told How to Pray, Preach, or Parent Our Children from Secular Governments

EVANGELICALS NOW (NICOLA LAVER)
Ban ‘Pernicious’ Prayer

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 9:43):
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The Achievement of the Rule of Law and a Commitment to Justice: Jury Convicts Derek Chauvin in the Death of George Floyd

PART 2 (9:44 - 16:1):
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Do We Really Believe in the American Project and the Rule of Law? The Importance of Respecting American Courts and Our System of Justice

PART 3 (16:2 - 23:44):
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It’s Very Dangerous to Be a Retired Dictator: Vladimir Putin Sets Himself Up to Continue Autocratic Rule in Russia Until 2036 (or Longer)

WASHINGTON POST (VLADIMIR KARA-MURZA)
Putin just allowed himself to rule until 2036. Not so fast.

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 9:53):
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Huge Moral Questions Raised by a Heartbreaking Story about IVF Technology: Recognizing the Moral Significance of Every Single Human Embryo

NEW YORK TIMES (KATHERINE ROSMAN)
The Lost Embryos

PART 2 (9:54 - 16:53):
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The Wild, Wild West of Reproductive Technology: Why Is American Society So Unconcerned about the Wanton Destruction of Human Embryos?

PART 3 (16:54 - 24:35):
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A Custody Battle Over a Dog? A Turtle? An Iguana? Welcome to Divorce in the 21st Century — Confusing the Categorical Distinctions Between Humans and Animals

PEW CHARITABLE TRUSTS (ELAINE S. POVICH)
Doggie Divorce: Who Gets the Pet When Couples Split?

PART 4 (24:36 - 28:46):
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Former Vice President and Minnesota Senator, Walter F. Mondale, Dies at 93: Remembering a Bygone Era of American Politics

Monday, April 19, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 15:8):
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Abortion Rights Means Abortion for Any Reason: A Horrifyingly Honest Argument from the Editorial Board of The Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES TIMES (THE EDITORIAL BOARD)
The right to an abortion means the right to have it for any reason

PART 2 (15:9 - 22:2):
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“Faith Leaders” Join Planned Parenthood’s Clergy Advocacy Board: What Could “Faith” Even Mean When Advocating for the Killing of the Unborn?

RELIGION NEWS SERVICE (JACK JENKINS)
Planned Parenthood announces new clergy advocacy board members, many from red states

PART 3 (22:3 - 25:33):
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Planned Parenthood Is Distancing Itself from Its Founder in 2021 — Why Has It Taken So Long?

NEW YORK TIMES (ALEXIS MCGILL JOHNSON)
I’m the Head of Planned Parenthood. We’re Done Making Excuses for Our Founder.

John 17:20-26

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Friday, April 16, 2021

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 8:0):
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President Biden Announces Withdrawal of U.S. Troops from Afghanistan: The Great Game and the Lessons of History

PART 2 (8:1 - 13:40):
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What Is More Right and Honorable, To Stay or To Leave? Old and Morally Difficult Questions Accompany the Decision to Leave Afghanistan

PART 3 (13:41 - 24:21):
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Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, Dies at 99: The Frame of History in One Single Lifetime

Christian Home Educators of Colorado | Homeschool Day at the Capitol

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