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A Properly Sentimental Season: Celebrating Christmas from the Heart

This time of year, Christians celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is a time of joy, thanksgiving; a time with family and friends. Indeed, it is a time filled with worship as we remember that glorious gospel truth: "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of gr...


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A Commitment to Truth: The Twentieth Anniversary of the Baptist Faith & Message

The year of our Lord 2020 must not pass into history without reflecting on the fact that this year marked the twentieth anniversary of one of the most significant events in the history of American Protestantism -- the conservative revision of the Southern Baptist Convention's confession of faith, the "Baptist Faith and Message."...


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Friday, December 18, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 6:23):

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Why Do Christians Celebrate Christmas? The Greatest Story of All Is True—Jesus Christ, Truly God and Truly Man, Is Born!



PART 2
(6:24 - 20:6):

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What Do the Accounts of Christ’s Birth in Matthew and Luke Tell Us about Our Savior? Understanding the Necessity of the Virgin Birth



PART 3
(20:7 - 26:7):

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Don’t Miss the Sweetness and Tenderness of Christmas This Year: Martin Luther on the Sentimentality of Christmas

Thursday, December 17, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 7:53):

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The Trap of Intersectionality: There’s Much More to the Buttigieg Nomination Than What You Read in the Headlines



NEW YORK TIMES (REID J. EPSTEIN AND CORAL DAVENPORT)

Biden Taps Pete Buttigieg for Transportation Secretary



PART 2
(7:54 - 16:29):

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Hungary Is Now an Outlaw in the E.U. for Affirming that a Mother Is a Woman and a Father Is a Man — And If Hungary Is an Outlaw, Then So Is Your Church



CNN (LINDSAY ISAAC AND SHARON BRAITHWAITE)

Hungary passes anti-LGBTQ law effectively barring same-sex couples from adopting



NEW YORK TIMES (BENJAMIN NOVAK)

Hungary Passes Laws Curtailing Gay Rights and Expanding Executive Power



PART 3
(16:30 - 19:19):

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The Sexual Revolution Wages Comprehensive War Against Creation and the Creator, Even in the Kingdom of Bhutan



NEW YORK TIMES (MIKE IVES)

Bhutan Becomes Latest Asian Nation to Dial Back Anti-Gay Laws



PART 4
(19:20 - 27:37):

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The Legacy of John le Carré, Master Spy Novelist: The Problem of Moral Ambiguity in Life and in Literature



NEW YORK TIMES (SARAH LYALL)

John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Dies at 89



NEW YORK TIMES (DWIGHT GARNER)

John le Carré, a Master of Spy Novels Where the Real Action Was Internal

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 9:48):

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William Barr to Resign as Attorney General: It Makes a Huge Difference Whether or Not You Believe in a Transcendent Moral Order Prior to Politics



U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Remarks to the Law School and the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame



PART 2
(9:49 - 17:36):

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Clear Changes in the American Political Landscape: What Do Those Changes Mean for America, the Mission Field?



NEW YORK TIMES

Presidential Election Results: Biden Wins (Map)



WALL STREET JOURNAL (GERALD F. SEIB)

As Electors Gather, Cold Numbers Show What Really Happened in 2020



PART 3
(17:37 - 23:24):

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A Reality Some Just Can’t Fathom: Some Major American Politicians Don’t Understand Those Who Vote Primarily Out of Moral Concern



NEW YORK TIMES (ISABEL SAWHILL AND MORGAN WELCH)

Will White Women in Georgia Put Family or Culture War First?



WALL STREET JOURNAL (JAMES FREEMAN)

Hispanic Trump Voters Annoy Obama

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 11:35):

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Joe Biden Wins Electoral College Vote — and Faces Increasing Demands from All Democratic Sides in the Identity Politics War



NEW YORK TIMES (MICHAEL D. SHEAR AND ANNIE KARNI)

Biden Faces Intense Pressure From All Sides as He Seeks Diverse Cabinet



WASHINGTON POST (DINO GRANDONI AND ALEXANDRA ELLERBECK)

The campaign heats up for Biden to pick a Native American for his Cabinet



PART 2
(11:36 - 15:14):

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A Political Trap Entangles California’s Gavin Newsom: Why Any Appointment to Kamala Harris’s Soon-to-Be Empty Senate Seat Puts the Governor in the Hot Seat



THE NEW YORKER (JANE MAYER)

Dianne Feinstein’s Missteps Raise a Painful Age Question Among Senate Democrats



PART 3
(15:15 - 25:29):

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Monumental Stakes in the Senate Run-Off Elections in Georgia: Just Consider the Unborn



FOX NEWS (MICHAEL RUIZ)

Over 25 Black ministers sign letter to Warnock on abortion

Vaccines and the Christian Worldview: Principles for Christian Thinking in the Context of COVID

Americans of my generation remember the incredible sight of the first human footprints on the moon. In 1969, the Unites States celebrated one of the greatest technological achievements in human history. The Apollo 11 mission took man into space, landed him on the moon, and brought him back safely. Less than a decade before that historic moment in J...


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Monday, December 14, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 2:1):

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Operation Warp Speed: This Generation’s Apollo Program Produces a Vaccine in Record Time



PART 2
(2:2 - 20:44):

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The Christian Tradition and the Question of Vaccines: Seven Principles for Christian Thinking



PART 3
(20:45 - 27:3):

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A Strange Mix of Politics and Theology in Washington: Today’s Strange Political Moment is not Free From the Danger of Private Revelation

Friday, December 11, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 10:41):

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A Socialist Featured in Vanity Fair Magazine? The Cult of Celebrity Is Tempting . . . Even If You’re a Socialist



VANITY FAIR (MICHELLE RUIZ)

Becoming AOC



PART 2
(10:42 - 16:17):

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Celebrity Culture Leveraged to Bring About Moral Change: Harry Styles Wears a Dress on the Cover of Vogue Magazine



VOGUE (HAMISH BOWLES)

Playtime With Harry Styles



PART 3
(16:18 - 22:48):

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Powerful and Influential, Yet Dangerous and Deadly: The Cult of Celebrity in the Fall of a Preacher



NEW YORK TIMES (RUTH GRAHAM)

The Rise and Fall of Carl Lentz, the Celebrity Pastor of Hillsong Church



THE SPECTATOR (BEN SIXSMITH)

The Sad Irony of Celebrity Pastors



NEW YORK TIMES (MICHAEL PAULSON)

Megachurch With a Beat Lures a Young Flock



PART 4
(22:49 - 24:38):

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So Much for Folk Resistance: Bob Dylan Sells His Music Catalog for $300 Million Dollars



WALL STREET JOURNAL (ANNE STEELE)

Bob Dylan Sells Entire Songwriting Catalog

The Triumph of the Modern Self: A Conversation with Theologian Carl Trueman

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