It's Thursday, August 22nd, 2024.

I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian

worldview.

Over the next few days we will be taking a look at what in retrospect was most

important at the Democratic National Convention, but we also understand there are other

issues pressing upon the Christian mind and the

Christian conscience and so we want to take a look at some of those issues and then we'll get back

to issues with the Democrats and the 2024 presidential race.

And in particular I want us to look at some international issues right now because these

are looming large and there's a sense in which it's hard to keep our perspective, especially during a presidential

campaign season, where the headlines, the front pages in the newspapers, the dominating media conversation,

and beyond that even the dominating cultural conversation it's overwhelmingly domestic but we just need to keep in mind that the international scene is not waiting for the American presidential election before you're going to have more headlines including more

very demanding and troubling headlines and thus there are some big issues so let's just

state up front we need to look at some of these big issues we need to update our

thinking because we are looking

at a very dangerous world situation.

As a matter of fact, a part of what I want to convey today is that even the Biden administration

is recognizing, in a way we will discuss in just a few minutes.

We are in an increasingly dangerous world.

This is something we need to seek to understand.

So first of all, let's go to the very troubled situation in Gaza and let's just remind ourselves of the landscape there

The big headline news right now is the fact that the American administration that means President Joe Biden

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