It's Wednesday, August 21, 2024.

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

worldview.

Well, for good reason, all eyes right now are on Chicago, Illinois in the meeting of the

2024 Democratic National Convention.

Now, that doesn't mean that as the Democrats are meeting in Chicago everything else in the world just stops any more than when the Republicans met just a few weeks ago in Milwaukee.

But it does mean that this is a focus of national attention and

deservedly so. We're talking about a major political party, one of the two big

political parties and big issues of course are very much in play as well as on the stage.

But there's another thing for us to remember in that is that when it comes to these big political

party conventions they are parked convention and largely they are show. In one sense they are one big parade,

one big spectacle, one big media opportunity. There's a lot of entertainment going on.

Even yesterday as there was a lot of press coverage during the day,

the background was major music artists who were practicing there in the convention hall. It's just a reminder of the fact that it really is a show.

And that's particularly true with the Democrats, to be honest. Given the ties with Hollywood and the entertainment industry,

it tends to come out just a little bit more.

But we need to look at what's really weighty and what's really important.

We keep in mind the schedule, the big event tonight is going to be the speech by the vice presidential nominee that

would be Tim Wall's the governor of Minnesota that acceptance speech is in

one sense the biggest speech he has ever given, that's almost assuredly true.

And you know there's a sense in which it could be the biggest speech he ever gives because

when you're talking about a vice presidential nominee and you don't even know which ticket's going

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