R. Albert Mohler Jr.'s Blog, page 159

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
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Is Science the Answer to Death? A Secularizing Society Grapples With How To Think About Death During a Pandemic



THE GUARDIAN (YUVAL NOAH HARARI)

Will coronavirus change our attitudes to death? Quite the opposite



PART 2
(11:56 - 17:28):

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The Most Certain Thing There Is—Science? Even Commercials Have Worldviews



FIERCE PHARMA (BETH SNYDER BULIK)

Pfizer promotes prescription drug help and the power of science in new TV ads aimed at COVID-19 concerns



PART 3
(17:29 - 23:24):

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C.S. Lewis on Turning a Fascination with Science into Scientism: The Incompatibility of Scientism and the Biblical Worldview



PART 4
(23:25 - 26:55):

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Science Ends Bernie Sanders’s ‘Beauty Contest’: New York Cancels Democratic Primary



WALL STREET JOURNAL (JIMMY VIELKIND)

New York State Cancels Presidential Primary Over Sanders Camp’s Objection

Higher Education and the COVID-19 Crisis: The Determination of Southern Seminary and Boyce College In the Present Hour

A Message from R. Albert Mohler, Jr., President...


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Monday, April 27, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 11:36):

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U.K. Minors to be Banned from Surgery to ‘Change’ Gender: The Controversy Reveals as Much as the Announcement



THE TELEGRAPH (GABRIELLA SWERLING)

Trans children to be banned from surgery to change their gender, the equalities minister announces



WORLD MAGAZINE

Regretted



PART 2
(11:37 - 13:40):

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Saving a Billion People from Starvation: Not Everyone Thinks It Was a Good Idea



NEW YORK TIMES (BRAD PLUMER AND JOHN SCHWARTZ)

50 Years of Earth Day: What’s Better Today, and What’s Worse



PART 3
(13:41 - 24:41):

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Ideas Have Consequences: Sometimes It Comes Down to Whether People Eat or Starve



WALL STREET JOURNAL (THE EDITORIAL BOARD)

Battering Norman Borlaug



ALLIANCE FOR SCIENCE (JUSTIN CREMER)

Norman Borlaug saved millions of lives, would his critics prefer he hadn’t?



THE GUARDIAN (JOHN VIDAL)

Norman Borlaug: humanitarian hero or menace to society?

Friday, April 24, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 9:58):

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When a News Story Isn’t Really News: The American Library Association Releases Its List of the 10 Most Challenged Books of 2019



NEW YORK TIMES (CHRISTINE HAUSER)

There’s a Common Thread Tying Together 2019’s ‘Most Challenged’ Books: L.G.B.T.Q. Issues



PART 2
(9:59 - 14:29):

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The Far-Reaching Effects of the Ever-Expanding Sexual Revolution: U.S. Intelligence Policy Impacted by LGBTQ Impetus



NEW YORK TIMES (JULIAN E. BARNES)

U.S. May Share Less Intelligence With Countries That Criminalize Homosexuality



PART 3
(14:30 - 16:47):

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Spycraft and Espionage in the Context of the Pandemic: Even Spies Have to Work from Home?



WALL STREET JOURNAL (WARREN P. STROBEL AND DUSTIN VOLZ)

Spies, Unable to Telework, Adapt Their Access to U.S. Secrets



PART 4
(16:48 - 19:38):

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Have You Been Speaking on the Phone More in the Pandemic? Apparently So Has Everyone Else—We Need the Human Voice



NEW YORK TIMES (CECILIA KANG)

The Humble Phone Call Has Made a Comeback



PART 5
(19:39 - 23:32):

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America’s Loneliness Crisis Heightened by Stay at Home Orders: It’s True—It Is Not Good for Man (or Woman) to Be Alone



WALL STREET JOURNAL (AARON ZITNER)

Isolated by Coronavirus, Frightened Americans Welcome Calls From Phone Banks

Thursday, April 23, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 3:51):

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Worldview Differences Just Don’t Go Away—Even In a Pandemic



NEW YORK TIMES (JEREMY W. PETERS)

How Abortion, Guns and Church Closings Made Coronavirus a Culture War



NEW YORK TIMES (SARAH LYALL)

The Cable TV Quarantine Fight



PART 2
(3:52 - 9:13):

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The “Essential” Marijuana Industry Is Booming During the Pandemic: Moral Change and Moral Opportunism in America



USA TODAY (TREVOR HUGHES)

Marijuana's big moment: Pot stores are essential businesses. Will legal weed go mainstream?



PART 3
(9:14 - 23:7):

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Why Do Humans Love and Care for One Another? And Is There a Purpose Behind the Coronavirus? Examining an Evolutionary Perspective on COVID-19



WALL STREET JOURNAL (ALISON GOPNIK)

How Humans Evolved to Care for Others



NEW YORK TIMES (STEPHEN T. ASMA)

Does the Pandemic Have a Purpose?



PART 4
(23:8 - 25:20):

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Worldview Really Does Matter: Impermanence, Buddhism, the Dalai Lama, and the Coronavirus



TIME (DALAI LAMA)

'Prayer Is Not Enough.' The Dalai Lama on Why We Need to Fight Coronavirus With Compassion

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 11:44):

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Today Is the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day: So, What’s That Really About?



PART 2
(11:45 - 19:40):

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How Should Christians Think about the Earth and the Environment? Dominion and Stewardship in the Biblical Worldview



PART 3
(19:41 - 25:40):

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A New Religion for Secularists? The Modern Ecological Movement Reveals a Theological Substructure



NEW YORK TIMES (HUGH ROBERTS)

This Earth Day, We Should Repent

The Ties That Bind: A Conversation with Yuval Levin about the Crisis of American Institutions and What We Can Do about It

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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 14:47):

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Big News from the U.S. Supreme Court: An Important Decision About Criminal Justice Means Much More Than You Think



ASSOCIATED PRESS (MARK SHERMAN)

Supreme Court: Criminal juries must be unanimous to convict



PART 2
(14:48 - 20:46):

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Why Do the Liberal Supreme Court Justices Vote in a Bloc More Often Than the Conservatives? Conservative Disposition vs. Liberal Ideology



USA TODAY (ILYA SHAPIRO)

Liberal Supreme Court justices vote in lockstep, not the conservative justices



PART 3
(20:47 - 24:30):

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Why Is the Bar to Convict So High in Criminal Justice? The Answer is More Than Political or Constitutional — It’s Biblical and Theological

Homeschooling in the Crosshairs—Harvard Magazine Says Homeschooling Families Are a Threat to Democracy

In a matter of just days, millions of American parents recently discovered that they are what they never planned to be-homeschoolers....


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Monday, April 20, 2020

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING

PART 1
(0:0 - 9:15):

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Homeschooling—A Threat to American Democracy? Harvard Magazine Presents the Argument



HARVARD MAGAZINE (ERIN O’DONNELL)

The Risks of Homeschooling



ARIZONA LAW REVIEW (ELIZABETH BARTHOLET)

Homeschooling: Parent Rights Absolutism vs. Child Rights to Education and Protection



PART 2
(9:16 - 18:27):

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The Educational Agenda of the Elites: Why the Main Argument Against Homeschooling Is an Argument Against Christian Homeschooling



WALL STREET JOURNAL (MATTHEW HENNESSY)

Coronavirus Makes Homeschoolers of Us All



PART 3
(18:28 - 25:29):

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The Assault on Parental Rights Won’t Stop with Homeschooling: Why Christian Schools Will Be the Next Target of the Secular Elites