It's Friday, November 21st, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. I think all of us know, all Christians know, all Christian families, especially all Christian parents know, that entertainment and morality are

inextricably linked. We are making moral judgments, and we are taking moral acts when we understand

choosing the entertainment that we see or that we allow our children to see, and frankly,

the very experience of seeing them. We understand as Christians

that this is never value neutral. We understand that there is no neutral ground. We understand

that what we're being presented with is either the truth or a lie. It is either the good,

the beautiful, and the true, or it is the absence of the good, the beautiful, and the

true. But we also understand that the ubiquity of entertainment, the omnipresence of

entertainment all around us, the fact that it is such a large portion of our economy, it means

that we're a part of this conversation, really, whether we want to be or not. But it does call upon

Christians to be informed about some of the big worldview issues that are behind all of this.

And one of them has to do with making moral judgments about motion pictures. Just to take one part

of the big information and education economy, Let's just look at the ratings of motion

pictures. But let me tell you why it's news. It's because just a couple of days ago, the New York

Times ran a front page article with the headline, Board reveals what can pass in rating films.

Julia Jacobs is the reporter. And the big news here is that for the first time, the Motion Picture Association

has released the logic and judgments behind the ratings that are assigned to motion pictures.

And so you're familiar with G and PG-13 and NC17 and R. And you understand that there's a,

there's a spectrum that is revealed there. And a lot of moral judgment is revealed there. And a lot of

it puts ourselves and our children at risk. So let's understand what's going on here. As Jacobs tells us, quote,

for decades, a board of parents established by the Motion Picture Association has rated movies

based on their perceived suitability for children and teenagers. It has to declare admission of

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