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Monday, April 4, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 9:28):
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A Picture of What’s to Come: Finland Becomes Ground Zero for the Collision of New Modern Age and Biblical Christianity over Issue of Gender and Sexuality

CHRISTIANITY TODAY (KEN CHITWOOD)
Christian Condemnations of LGBT Not Hate Speech in Finland, Court Rules

PART 2 (9:29 - 16:9):
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Biden Administration Seeks Further Advance of LGBTQ Revolution as It Moves to Allow Choice of Gender ‘X’ on U.S. Passports

NEW YORK TIMES (AISHVARYA KAVI)
State Dept. Will Allow Americans to Mark Their Gender as ‘X’ on Passports

THE WHITE HOUSE
Biden-⁠Harris Administration Advances Equality and Visibility for Transgender Americans

USA TODAY (ELLA LEE)
U.S. Will Offer 'X' Gender Marker for Passports Starting April 11, State Department Says

PART 3 (16:10 - 25:31):
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How To Reject Creation in the Classroom: Cornell University Releases LGBTQ+ Research Guide for Faculty and Staff

THE CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Cornell LGBTQ+ for Faculty and Staff

Friday, April 1, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 5:22):
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Unborn Life Under Threat, All the Way to Birth: Maryland Legislature Passes Radical Abortion Bill and Sends It To Governor Hogan

WASHINGTON POST (OVETTA WIGGINS AND ERIN COX)
Maryland Approves Bill to Expand Access to Abortions

PART 2 (5:23 - 10:10):
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‘In Oregon, We Say Gay’: Oregon Governor Responds to Florida Parental Education Law — But Why Is Oregon So Different from Florida?

PART 3 (10:11 - 15:27):
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‘What Does Family Look Like to You?’: The Destabilization of “Family” In American Culture

USA TODAY (THE EDITORIAL BOARD)
Changing Family, Changing America: It's Not Your (Grand)Parents' 'Cheaper by the Dozen'

PART 4 (15:28 - 19:36):
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Is a Military Draft Moral? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART 5 (19:37 - 21:25):
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Is the Language ‘Gender Assigned at Birth’ Incongruous with the Christian Position? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART 6 (21:26 - 26:6):
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How Would You Define What a Woman is? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, March 31, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 8:16):
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The Closer You Get to the Coast, Cities, or Campuses, the Closer You Get to the Moral Revolution — More Evidence

PART 2 (8:17 - 17:54):
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Disney’s “Not At All Secret Gay Agenda” Becomes Clear — Real Agenda Revealed in “All Hands” Employee Meeting

WASHINGTON EXAMINER (KAYLEE MCGHEE WHITE)
Of Course Disney Wants to Indoctrinate Your Children

PART 3 (17:55 - 21:13):
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‘I Don’t Want to Hide My Personal Life From My (Kindergarten) Students’: The Response of an LGBT Teacher Reveals Why Florida Needed the Parental Education Law

THE HILL (BROOKE MIGDON)
Florida Teacher: 'I Don't Want to have to Hide' My Personal Life from my Students

PART 4 (21:14 - 24:21):
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CNN Now Places ‘Parental Rights’ in Scare Quotes Instead of ‘Gay Rights’ — Rights Talk Reveals True Clash Between Parents and Schools

CNN (ZACHARY B. WOLF)
Focus on 'Parental Rights' Chips Away at Gay Rights

Wednesday, March 30, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 7:56):
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An Important Affirmation of Religious Liberty: SCOTUS Rules Condemned Criminals on Death Row Have Right to Clergy in Final Moments

SCOTUS
Ramirez v. Collier Executive Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice

PART 2 (7:57 - 17:19):
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‘The Billionaire Tax’: It Might Start with the Few, but It Will Not Be Long to Until It Reaches the Many

WALL STREET JOURNAL (RICHARD RUBIN AND ANDREW DUEHREN)
Biden to Propose New Minimum Tax on Wealthiest Americans

NEW YORK TIMES (PETER COY)
Here’s the Neat Trick of Biden’s Billionaire Tax

PART 3 (17:20 - 20:28):
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Seismic Moral Change Hidden in a Legal Filing: Citigroup Reveals That It Will Cover Travel Benefits to Employees to Receive an Abortion

USA TODAY (ELISABETH BUCHWALD)
What Citi's Abortion Policy Means for Companies as Supreme Court Considers Tighter Restrictions

PART 4 (20:29 - 24:30):
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San Francisco’s Virtue Signaling Backfires as It Is Runs Out of States With Which It Can Conduct Business

WASHINGTON EXAMINER (ANDREW KERR)
San Francisco's Boycott of 28 States Backfires

WASHINGTON EXAMINER (CONN CARROLL)
San Francisco is Probably Boycotting You

Jude 24-25

The post Jude 24-25 appeared first on AlbertMohler.com.

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 9:56):
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The Slap Heard ‘Round the World: Moral Confusion as Tinseltown Honors Itself

NEW YORK TIMES (NICOLE SPERLING, MATT STEVENS AND JULIA JACOBS)
Academy Condemns Will Smith for Slap at Oscars and Opens Inquiry

WASHINGTON POST (ALYSSA ROSENBERG)
Will Smith’s Oscars Slap Doesn’t Need Explaining. Just Let it be Sad.

PART 2 (9:57 - 16:17):
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Hollywood’s Centralized Control Over the Culture Wanes as New Media Forms Overtake Influence of Movies

NEW YORK TIMES (ROSS DOUTHAT)
We Aren’t Just Watching the Decline of the Oscars. We’re Watching the End of the Movies.

THE GUARDIAN (CATHERINE SHOARD)
Four Years on from #MeToo, the Oscars’ Feminism has Gone Rapidly Backwards

PART 3 (16:18 - 20:31):
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An Obstacle to the LGBTQ Movement’s March Through the Public Schools: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Signs ‘Parental Rights in Education’ Law

NEW YORK TIMES (PATRICIA MAZZEI)
DeSantis Signs Florida Bill That Opponents Call ‘Don’t Say Gay’

PART 4 (20:32 - 22:49):
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What Makes the News Makes a Culture: Citizens Oppose School’s Placement of Female Hygiene Products in Boys Bathrooms

PATCH (DAVID GIULIANI)
Some Opposed To Tampons In LTHS Boys Bathrooms

Vladimir the Horrible's vision of Russian glory

Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine did not come as a bolt from the blue. Vladimir Putin's seizure of territory in Georgia, his "annexation" of the Crimean Peninsula, and his instigation of war in the eastern regions of Ukraine are old news. Furthermore, U.S. intelligence, breaking with tradition, was broadcast hour by hour as Putin positioned a ma... The post Vladimir the Horrible's vision of Russian glory appeared first on AlbertMohler.com.

Monday, March 28, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 3:38):
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As the World Turns Over a Weekend: Leadership of NATO Meets in Poland as Russia Appears to Change Goals of War in Ukraine

PART 2 (3:39 - 8:13):
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Poland Now Center Stage: Transformation of Global Affairs Seen in New Importance of Poland to the West

NEW YORK TIMES (ANDREW HIGGINS)
Long on Europe’s Fringe, Poland Takes Center Stage as War Rages in Ukraine

PART 3 (8:14 - 15:31):
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Look Who (for Now) Claims to Believe in Objective Truth: War Brings Clarity in the Never-Ending Fight for Truth

NEW YORK TIMES (STEVEN LEE MYERS AND STUART THOMPSON)
Truth Is Another Front in Putin’s War

PART 4 (15:32 - 22:51):
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A Demand for Regime Change in Russia? A Presidential Gaffe Can Upend World Politics

CNN (KEVIN LIPTAK)
Biden's Off-The-Cuff Remark on Putin Sends Shock Waves on Dramatic Final Day of Trip

WALL STREET JOURNAL (SABRINA SIDDIQUI AND TARINI PARTI)
Biden’s Remark on Putin Stirs Anxiety Among Western Allies

Friday, March 25, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 8:34):
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Fido Goes Paleo? Vegan? Ashwaganda Root Dog Food? When Pet Owners Feed Their Pets As They Feed Themselves, They Reveal More Than They Think

NEW YORK TIMES (PRIYA KRISHNA)
The Diet Worked For Them. Now Their Pets Are on It.

RELIGION NEWS SERVICE (CLAIRE GIANGRAVé)
Pope Francis Called Pet Owners Selfish. An Animal Chaplain Says He Sells Love Short.

PART 2 (8:35 - 17:4):
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A Life That Tells the Story of the Twentieth Century, and the Story of America — Madeleine Albright Dies at Age 84

WORLD OPINIONS (R. ALBERT MOHLER JR.)
Only in America—the astounding life of Madeleine Albright, 1937–2022

PART 3 (17:5 - 19:15):
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Should I Remove My Daughter from a School That Employs A Transgender Teacher for Children in the First Grade? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART 4 (19:16 - 20:49):
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Will My Mother Go to Hell for Believing Her Baptism Gets Her to Heaven? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART 5 (20:50 - 22:7):
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Why Does the Apostles’ Creed Single Out Pontius Pilate? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART 6 (22:8 - 23:39):
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Does Romans 2:14 Mean that Gentiles Can Obey the Law Without the Holy Spirit? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART 7 (23:40 - 25:0):
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How Does the Holy Spirit Speak? Is It Through a Microphone? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Question from a Three-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Thursday, March 24, 2022

DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1 (0:0 - 6:19):
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‘Can You Provide A Definition for the Word Woman?’: Such A Simple Question, but Why Won’t Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Answer It?

THE FEDERALIST (ELLE REYNOLDS)
If Ketanji Brown Jackson Doesn’t Know What A ‘Woman’ Is, Why Does She Use The Word So Much?

PART 2 (6:20 - 11:15):
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The Death of Truth Realized in a Swimming Pool: Lia Thomas, A Biological Male, Wins the NCAA Women’s National Swimming Championship — And the Entire Society Is to Celebrate?

WORLD OPINIONS (R. ALBERT MOHLER JR.)
The transgender revolution and the death of truth

PART 3 (11:16 - 20:32):
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The Distinction of Boys and Girls, Men and Women, is Just “A Claim of Biological Difference?” Insanity Looms Over Our Age

NBC NEWS (CHERYL COOKY)
Lia Thomas' NCAA Championship Performance Gives Women Sports a Crucial Opportunity

PART 4 (20:33 - 23:36):
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Moral Surrender and Political Spinelessness: GOP Governors of Indiana and Utah Veto Bills to Restrict Girls‘ Sports to Girls

WALL STREET JOURNAL (JENNIFER CALPHAS)
Irrationality and Spinelessness: GOP Governors of Indiana and Utah Veto Bills to Relegate Women’s Sports to Biological Women

NEW YORK TIMES (EDUARDO MEDINA)
Utah Governor Vetoes Transgender-Athlete Bil