It's Thursday, December 7, 2023. I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily

analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

I think most of us know we're living in consequential times, but sometimes it seems that we're

living in very urgent times.

Just over the course of the last several days, several things have happened that have helped to focus the moral and worldview crisis of our times.

Sometimes this comes down to a matter of life and death.

And as we're looking at these issues, we need to go to the United States Capitol this past Tuesday, just two days ago,

when three of America's most influential university presidents appeared before a House committee to speak to the issues of anti-Semitism

and even calls for genocide on their campuses.

What's most remarkable from all of this is that all three of those presidents failed in the most basic task of human decency in

stating that it would not be allowable on their campuses for openly anti-Semitic

calls to be made, even calls for genocide. These statements made

by these three university presidents that represent the elite of American

academic life, they are patently immoral and unacceptable. But it tells you a great deal about the rot of

America's higher education. It also underlines the incongruity of so many

conservative Christian parents and students who think it would be a great

achievement to get into these universities where basically they would

be surrendering themselves to a moral swamp. The three presidents were the

president of Harvard University, Claudine Gay, the President of MIT, the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, Sally A Corn Bluth, and the President of the University of Pennsylvania,

Elizabeth McGill.

Now the University of Pennsylvania,

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