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It's Thursday, August 7, 2025. I'm Albert Mohler and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview....
Albert Mohler: This is Thinking In Public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about frontline theological and cultural issues with the...
Podcast Transcript 1) Concerns rise as scientists near possibility of designer babies, a move beyond human dignity Scientists Seek Ban on Method of Editing the Human Genome, New York Times (Nicholas Wade) A prudent path forward for genomic e ...
Podcast Transcript 1) Islamic State execution of Jordanian hostage reveals moral asymmetry in fight against evil Islamic State video purports to show Jordanian pilot burnt alive, Reuters (Staff) Obama decries hateful ideology after Jordanian ...
Podcast Transcript 1) Muslim call to prayer at Duke reveals vacuum of secularism must always give way Muslim Students at Duke to Begin Weekly Call-to-Prayer, Duke Today (James Todd) Duke Chapel to Allow Muslim Call to Prayer, Huffington Post ...
Podcast Transcript 1) Failure of pollsters to predict 2014 elections result of voters not voting Pollsters Missed Their Mark in Many States, Wall Street Journal (Reid J. Epstein) 2) Disastrous legacy of communism example of lasting importanc ...
Podcast Transcript 1) What does David Cameron’s “classic” Church of England membership amount to? Not much. Cameron’s Description of Britain as ‘Christian Country’ Draws an Angry Response, New York Times (Steven Erlanger) David Cameron’s ‘v ...
1) Inevitability of vast new "designer baby" industry Forecast: The world in 2114, Financial Times 2) FDA considers fertility procedure allowing for "three-parent babies" F.D.A. Weighs Fertility Method That Raises Ethical Questions, New York ...
1) Celebrating the child rescued in China, but what of the child whose cries are never heard? China's Baby 59 left in sewage pipe evokes mass sympathy and anger, The Guardian (Tania Branigan) 2) Shocking moral equivalence made between abortion ...
1. Rapid pace of secularization and rise of Islam in Great Britain Christianity declining 50pc faster than thought – as one in 10 under-25s is a Muslim, The Telegraph (John Bingham)What Does the Census Tell Us about Religion in 2011? The Office for ...
At some point, anticipated and even feared by some parents, every child asks the inevitable question: "Where did I come from?" That question is endemic to humanity. The question of our own biological origins is eventually inescapable. Our existence r ...
R. Albert Mohler, Jr., December 16, 2010 The Wall Street Journal blows the cover off the international trade in babies and reproductive technologies this week, as reporters Tamara Audi and Arlene Chang tell of the emergence of a market that assembl ...
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