It's Tuesday, August 16, 2022. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing. A daily

analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

We're going to talk about some hard issues today because the headlines are hard.

We're going to be talking about the assault upon creation, the assault upon moral order,

the assault upon the categories of male and female, and for that matter just

the entire sense of common moral reality that is now being turned on its head.

The two big issues we're going to look at today

both represent head-on collisions that are now appearing in the headlines, a head-on collision

between reality, creation order, God's design, and the modern moral revolution.

What's going on right now, which is a massive attempt on the part of our society at

large to reject reality, God's authority, and for that matter, all common sense.

Just lean into that last category for a moment, all common sense.

See if you understand what I'm talking about when I turn first to Boston, where in Boston the Venerable

Hospital now known as Boston Children's Hospital is becoming very well known for

its gender-affirming procedures which in a series of videos and by other means it is now making very clear

it is routinely carrying out for adolescents. Now, the controversy emerged in recent days because of headlines largely in some

conservative circles indicating that Boston Children's Hospital was

carrying out this kind of quote gender affirming surgery and we'll get into that

just a little bit trust me you'll be glad just a little bit as we think about this

that conservative news sources have been talking about these procedures being carried out on children,

Politi facto, and others came to the hospital's defense in order to say, no, that's not actually happening, it's absolutely dishonest to use the word

children we're talking about adolescents here we're talking about

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