It's Thursday, March 13, 2025. I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

As we try to think through all issues on the basis of Christian truth, biblical thinking, what we call rightly the Christian worldview,

we understand that there are some issues that are really, really clear, right and wrong,

good and evil, very carefully, very cleanly made evident. And just to give an example,

let's just again talk about, well, to make it easy, let's say murder.

Murder is categorically wrong.

It's just really easy.

And then from that, we have to reason to forms of murder, and that would include, by the way, abortion,

which is why we see it as such an incredibly significant moral issue.

So when you're talking about life, you're talking about murder, you're talking about abortion, you're talking about very clear right and wrong, good and evil. You know, however,

when you think about much the government has to do, you think about much of what we do in everyday life, an awful lot of it comes down to decision-making choices, policies that aren't evidently or self-evidently right or wrong,

good or bad, moral or immoral. Instead, we have to look at the fact that we're living in a

complicated world and in some disciplines such as, say, economic policy, some arenas of human

activity, like, again, economic activity, it turns out that there are many issues in which

there's not an absolute right or an absolute wrong. Certainly there is, if you say,

stealing. But when it comes to the establishment of tax policy, when it comes to budgetary policies,

when it comes to many issues, it's not so clearly right or wrong. One of the key issues

right now, very much in the headlines,

it's not really clear in moral terms whether they are right or wrong. I'm talking about tariffs.

I'm talking about President Donald J. Trump, who says that the word tariff is in his words,

one of the most beautiful words in the English language. But something is really interesting,

and we need to see underneath all the

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