It's Monday, May 8, 2023.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian worldview.

Well hundreds of millions of people around the world paid attention to and some watched

live.

The coronation of King Charles III, their Westminster Abbey in London.

There hadn't been a coronation like this in almost exactly 70 years in British history,

and no one puts on a coronation like the English or more updated terminology now would be

the British.

It didn't start out that way and started out with majesty, but simplicity almost in

exactly the same spot.

Westminster Abbey, something like almost exactly a thousand years ago.

So as you're looking at the history of civilization and particularly the history of Western

civilization, individually in the English speaking tradition, it is hard to come up with

anything more traditional than this.

And tradition is what the event was all about except where it was about the opposite.

And we're going to try to look at both sides and just some analysis today because from a

Christian worldview perspective, there were massive issues that were there put on view

and not only put on view, but openly heard as well.

For one thing, the people observing that ceremony heard more scripture in the English language

than most have probably heard in the last year, several years, maybe decades, maybe

ever because it was a service saturated in Christian language and in scripture, just

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