Cultural Update: Israel-Hamas Ceasefire; Conversion Therapy and Free Speech
Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture
Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae
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🗓️ 10 October 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | A potentially game-changing ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. |
| 0:07.0 | What the arrival of AI fabricated videos means for us, the Supreme Court takes up a case tied |
| 0:13.0 | to conversion therapy and despite promises that society would be far better off with |
| 0:18.0 | marijuana legalization. In one county, 40% of drivers who died in a car accident had elevated levels of the psychoactive |
| 0:26.2 | ingredient THC. |
| 0:28.2 | These are the stories we will discuss, and we will also address some of your questions. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm your host, Sean McDowell. |
| 0:33.5 | I'm your co-host, Scott Ray. |
| 0:35.1 | This is the Think Bivocally Weekly Cultural Update, brought to you by Talbot School |
| 0:39.0 | Theology, Viola University. |
| 0:41.7 | Scott, I don't think we're going to need to spend a ton of time in this first story, but it |
| 0:44.9 | caught my attention because we're kind of seeing a shift in how culture is viewing marijuana. |
| 0:51.6 | I would argue potentially in a positive direction. And this study was, it was kind of |
| 0:57.7 | stunning to me how high these numbers are. They're asking the question, how much social and |
| 1:04.6 | public health damage will Americans suffer before doing a U-turn on marijuana promotion? |
| 1:11.1 | That's exactly the right question. |
| 1:13.6 | New study found that 40% of drivers who died in car accidents, like I said, in one county, |
| 1:19.3 | which is actually Montgomery County, Ohio, and this is between 2019 and 2024, |
| 1:26.4 | more than 4 in 10 tested positive for Potts psychoactive ingredient THC. |
| 1:33.3 | This is the level that they give is more than six times the level most states use to define |
| 1:39.2 | impairment. |
| 1:40.6 | That's how high it is. |
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