It's Monday, August 1st, 2022. I'm Albert Moeller and welcome to the new season of the briefing,

a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. of the

briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Well, it's only been 30 days since the last season ended and what a 30 days it has been just one month.

This points to something we have to see over and over again these days, and that is the increase in what is known as cultural acceleration, or a cultural velocity.

It's the change that comes so fast now in society, not just at the surface level, but at the deep

moral level. This is something that truly is unprecedented in human history.

Moral change has often taken centuries, sometimes multiple centuries, certainly decades to take place.

But right now moral change seems to happen almost as if it's an explosion.

It's this high velocity, high energy impact. almost as if it's an explosion.

It's this high velocity, high energy event

that just changes everything.

So much so that what was an old world

way back there in the past

can be something as recent as say just a few years ago.

If you have an 8 year old in your house, that child is older than the Supreme Court's decision

legalizing same-sex marriage.

But you wouldn't know that as you look at today's cultural terrain. in As you look at the reality of same-sex marriage, legal in all 50 states, precisely because of the

Supreme Court, what you see is a reversal of millennia of human experience in virtually

all places in all times among all peoples and all

cultures marriage has been defined as a heterosexual institution. Classically, most

importantly is a union of a man and a woman.

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