Welcome to ThinkBiblically Weekly Cultural Update, where we look at current events with

cultural significance through the lenses of a Christian worldview and will answer

some of the questions that you all have sent in.

As a reminder, this is in addition to not a

substitute for our regular ThinkBiblically podcast. We will post our weekly cultural

update every Friday and our regular ThinkBiblically podcast will post on Monday or Tuesday.

I'm your host Scott Ray and sitting in for Sean who's out of the country this week is my

colleague Dr Rick Langer. Rick, thanks so much for being with us for this

conversation.

Thanks Scott for inviting me in.

Here's story number one.

Jury selection was yesterday

for a very unusual case that comes out of Oxford Township, Michigan. Parents were charged with

involuntary manslaughter from unlawful negligence with respect in

connection to the school shooting that their son, a 15 year old, committed

over two years ago.

This began all in late 2021 when Ethan Crumbly of Oxford High School in Oxford Township, Michigan,

shot and killed four of his classmates, pled guilty and was convicted of first-degree

murder, and then after trial took a while sentencing took a while but

was sentenced in December of 2023 to life without the possibility of parole.

Trial for the parents for involuntary manslaughter began yesterday with jury selection.

Now, this is not the first time this happened, but it is unusual.

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