Cultural Update: Is Iran War Ethical?; Rigging March Madness; Sexual Recession
Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture
Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Starting with Ayatollah Khamene, Israel targets leaders in Iran, killing at least three more this week. |
| 0:10.2 | Is this a moral strategy? |
| 0:12.1 | Is gambling rigging college basketball an important question in light of March madness? |
| 0:18.2 | Are we in a crisis of people not having enough sex? Two books suggest the answer |
| 0:23.8 | is yes. And a new bill in its current form would allow women to legally get abortions in the UK |
| 0:29.3 | up until birth. These are the stories we'll discuss and we'll also address some of your questions. |
| 0:35.2 | I'm your host, Sean McDowell. I'm your co-host, Scott Ray. |
| 0:38.3 | This is the Think Biblically Weekly Cultural Update brought you by Talbot School of Theology, |
| 0:42.9 | Biola University. Scott, it's no secret that almost every story from all the publications I read |
| 0:50.1 | is dominated this week with the Israel-US Iran War. |
| 0:56.0 | I don't want to cover what other publications are covering, |
| 1:00.2 | but I try to think through what's a unique angle we could take |
| 1:03.2 | that maybe would be helpful. |
| 1:05.9 | And given your studying ethics, |
| 1:07.3 | I'm really interested to hear how you're going to weigh in on this one. |
| 1:11.9 | So this is an article that's in the Wall Street Journal, and it says Israel is hunting down Iranian regime |
| 1:17.0 | members in their hideouts one by one. And of course, this started with Comini, one of the |
| 1:24.2 | leaders just a few weeks ago who was assassinated. Then they described early Tuesday |
| 1:29.7 | morning this week. Israel's intelligence services found Larajani, gathered with other officials |
| 1:35.4 | at a hideout at the outskirts of Tehran and killed him with a missile strike. Another one this |
| 1:42.4 | week was the leader of the feared Baja's militia. I can't even pronounce |
| 1:48.5 | his first name, but Soleimani was also struck and killed. And then another one followed by that |
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