It's Friday, August 15, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. You hear the name Winston Churchill. Do you think hero or do you think villain? Now, honestly, in the course of American history, indeed of world history,

for the most part, over the course of, say, the last, well, 75 years or so, it would be

unthinkable that the answer would not be hero rather than villain. But we're talking about

this today because it comes down to a battle over history

and morality and history and accuracy in history and how to read history, how to understand history.

Because there are some who identify themselves on the far right who are now making the argument

that Winston Churchill was the villain of World War II rather than the hero and that, well, there are even some saying the wrong side won.

Now, it is interesting that most of the people doing this are what we might say are their Internet sensations.

This is not coming from the academically trained in history.

I also wanna say that being academically trained

is not everything in terms of making historical judgment

because academically trained historians

make a lot of very bad judgments.

But there is a conversation among those

who are the scholars of such things. And there is also a verdict of

history, which I believe is very much a part of the Christian understanding. And the further you get

from some events and from some moral judgments, the more you have to go back and say, okay,

let's remind ourselves what exactly was going on there.

When you look at Winston Churchill, you're looking at one of the biggest lives lived in the canvas of human history.

And it almost was destined to be that way, I would say, in the providence of God.

He was born in Blenheim Palace. The only residence in Great Britain is not a royal residence that is officially known as a palace. He was born in Blenheim Palace, the only residence in Great Britain, is not a royal residence

that is officially known as a palace. He was born the first son of the second son of the Duke of Marlborough

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