Cultural Update: Supreme Court Religious Liberty Case; The Ethics of Consensual Non-Monogamy; Virtuous AI Chatbots; Policy Shifts on Psychedelics
Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture
Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae
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🗓️ 24 April 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Supreme Court will hear a new religious liberty case about whether private Christian schools can be denied public funds for denying school access to LGBTQ families. |
| 0:12.7 | Despite American agreement across the political aisle, the infidelity is wrong. |
| 0:17.8 | Is it time to move on from monogamy? |
| 0:20.2 | The new anthropic AI model looks to religion |
| 0:22.7 | to develop a wise and virtuous chatbot, will this work, and Trump signs an executive order |
| 0:29.0 | loosening restrictions on psychedelics. These are the stories we will discuss, and we will also |
| 0:34.2 | take some of your questions. I'm your host, Sean McDowell. I'm your co-host, |
| 0:37.7 | Scott Ray. This is the Think Bivocally Weekly Cultural Update brought to by Talp School of Theology |
| 0:43.0 | Biola University. Scott, this first story is one we both flagged because it's the latest |
| 0:49.6 | religious liberty case and has a lot of implications moving forward. And this piece is in the New York |
| 0:56.9 | Times. And it's about how justices are going to hear a case on Catholic preschools. And this is the way |
| 1:03.6 | it's worded. We'll come back to this that, quote, reject children of gay parents. So on Monday this week, the Supreme Court agreed to decide whether Catholic preschools in |
| 1:14.7 | Colorado, and note Colorado, because they keep bringing up these stories, by the way, |
| 1:21.0 | that declined to enroll four-year-olds with gay or transgender parents can participate |
| 1:26.0 | in publicly funded state program. |
| 1:29.2 | So there's two Catholic parish preschools in the Denver area are said admitting such children would require them to violate their religious convictions. |
| 1:39.8 | There's a Colorado program that pays for families to send their children to the preschool, their choice, public or private, including faith-based programs. |
| 1:48.7 | But the state refused to grant an exception to its anti-discrimination rules to allow the |
| 1:55.3 | preschools to participate. |
| 1:57.6 | And then the church then sued. |
| 2:00.5 | Now, lower court judges sided with a state, which also happened in some of the earlier |
| 2:05.6 | Colorado cases, which is why they also went up to the Supreme Court. |
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