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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...
WDRB TV, Fox 41, did a story on the stem cell issue in light of President Barack Obama's new policy. I was interviewed for this report. The video is available here. The package by WDRB put a focus on John Swarts, a patient with Parkinson's Disease ...
In a widely-publicized event in the East Room at the White House today, President Barack Obama signed an executive order overturning previous restrictions on the use of federal funding for research on embryonic stem cells. On today's program, guest h ...
President Barack Obama today signed an executive order that reverses the Bush administration's restrictions on federal funding for research that involves the destruction of human embryos. In a White House ceremony, President Obama said that American ...
The logic of the genetics revolution leads inevitably to the concept of the designer baby. New technologies bring new possibilities and hard choices, and the new genetic technologies bring genuinely frightening new possibilities. Now, even designer ...
In a recent article for The Wall Street Journal Gautam Naik notes the growth of fertility treatments not as preventative medicine, but also of the ability to select babies with specific traits. On today's program, Dr. Mohler explores the moral compli ...
Two recent news stories illustrate our culture's preoccupation with choice as a determinative moral principle. In one, a single mother has given birth to octuplets through IVF. In another, a young woman has auctioned off her virginity to the highest ...
Sermon Preached at Highview Baptist Church East Campus Followed by Q&A on The Sanctity of Human Life Sanctity of Life Sunday ...
A woman in India is reported now to be the "world's oldest mom," giving birth to a baby at age 70. Rajo Devi of Alewa, India gave birth to a baby girl last week. Devi became pregnant using a technology that combined a donor egg from a younger woman w ...
A woman in India is reported now to be the "world's oldest mom," giving birth to a baby at age 70. Rajo Devi of Alewa, India gave birth to a baby girl last week. She, along with her 72 year-old husband, had been hoping for a baby for a half-century. ...
The moral status of the human embryo now stands as a central question of our times. In fact, it has only been in recent times that we have even known much about the human embryo. Now, with the issues of human embryonic stem cell research, cloning, ...
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