Cultural Update: Talarico's Progressive Christianity; Epstein Files and Moral Unity; Supreme Court Backs Parental Rights
Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture
Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae
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🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Supreme Court sides with parents blocking California's trans student policy. |
| 0:07.5 | Progressive Christian James Tolerico wins the Texas Senate primary is a new vision of the intersection of faith and politics emerging. |
| 0:15.6 | Could the Epstein files actually unite Americans on a shared vision of clarity regarding evil. These are the stories we |
| 0:22.7 | will discuss. And we will also address some of your questions. I'm your host, Sean McDowell. |
| 0:26.9 | And today we have guest host, who's almost irregular he's filled in so many times, Dr. Thaddeus |
| 0:32.9 | Williams. Good to have my man. Thanks for filling in for the one and only, Scott Ray. |
| 0:37.5 | Joy to be with you, brother, as always. |
| 0:40.3 | Well, this story dropped early this week, and it's really important we think biblically about it, |
| 0:46.0 | because it relates to marriage, it relates to sexuality. And the story I'm reading from, |
| 0:50.6 | and even the way it's framed, we can tell it's coming from the New York Times, |
| 0:55.5 | and it's an opinion piece. It says Supreme Court sides with religious parents blocking California's |
| 1:01.5 | trans student policy. So on Monday, the Supreme Court side with a group of religious parents |
| 1:08.0 | temporarily blocking California from using policies that generally |
| 1:12.6 | bar public school teachers from outing transgender students to their parents. So it was a group |
| 1:19.6 | of Christian teachers and parents who asked the justices to intervene on an emergency basis. |
| 1:25.4 | So this is not a typical ruling that releases in, say, June, |
| 1:29.1 | contending that the state, California, had adopted a policy that requires public schools to hide |
| 1:35.3 | students' transgender status from their own parents and to facilitate their social transition, |
| 1:41.9 | even over their parents' objection. So the concern was that parents were |
| 1:46.0 | put in a position, actually teachers were put in a position, to actually lie to parents when |
| 1:51.6 | parents inquired. Now, California's Attorney General, Rob Bonta, he said the consequences of |
| 1:57.8 | compelling the disclosure of confidential information about their identity identity would be irreversible. So he came out saying that this would cause damage |
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