It's Wednesday, June 12, 2024.

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

We need to take some time to think about moral change, how it takes place in our society.

I think almost everyone listening to me is at least old enough to recognize some pattern of moral change.

You can see it in the United States, like on the issue of abortion, we've seen the acceleration

of demands for and political energy for abortion rights. We've seen that develop just in the last two years in a

way that was perhaps unexpected. We also have the terrain on the LGBTQ revolution.

We have other vast areas of moral and cultural change.

And I think it's really important that we pause to think about how that change takes place

and at least track the trajectory on some of these issues because if we don't

we're going to find ourselves in very strange territory very fast.

We need to learn some of the lessons of history.

And we also need to understand how moral

change is being championed and driven by some people today using arguments that we

need to be able to recognize. So let's just think about that.

Moral change takes place when it's measurable that people held one moral judgment at this point

in history and it's measurable that they hold a different moral judgment at a different point in history.

Now by the way there are two ways to think about that.

One is that you have different people at point one than you have at point two.

The other is actually more troubling and that is that you have the same people at

point 1 and 2. So thinking about moral change is one thing to think about say two or three

generations where the person in the

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