It's Wednesday, August 17, 2022.

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

from a Christian worldview.

There are some really huge issues for us to consider today and it's really interesting and

for that matter a bit sobering for Christians to note, we are living in what I think will long be remembered as some of the most strategic days in our nation's history, perhaps even in the history of the West, particularly related to big moral issues.

We have known for some time that we have been living in the midst of a vortex of change,

and we have seen Supreme Court decision after Supreme Court decision,

issue after issue arise, election after election come.

But right now we're seeing what happens when just about all of this comes together at once.

And of course the big issue, among many other big issues right now is

the abortion issue and one of the big issues to watch here is how abortion is

going to play out in the 2022 midterm elections in the aftermath of the Dobbs decision

handed down at the end of June. So it was a game changer even as there had been

of course that infamous leaked draft of the majority opinion indicating

a reversal of Roe v. Wade, when it happened, let's just be honest, both sides were morally

shocked.

I'm not saying they're intellectually

shocked. There are two different kinds of shock. Indeed there might be more than two.

But as you think of intellectual shock, that's the surprise of finding something

new, having something you believed corrected, a new discovery,

something that changes your intellectual landscape.

Moral change is a bit different.

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