It's Wednesday, November 1st, 2023.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from

a Christian world view.

There's some great big issues that we simply have to consider as Christians, looming issues

that require a Christian response, issues that are so deeply and experientially urgent

bursting into the headlines that we have to think about how we could possibly be talking

about these things in this time.

But that's exactly what's going on as we look at the Hamas attack upon Israel and Israel's

fight back.

That's exactly what we're talking about in the outbreak of anti-Semitism that we see

throughout much of the West, particularly on the political left.

That's exactly what we see in the confusion on the part of so many people, especially

intellectuals in the cultural elite, politicians in the political elite, about whether or

not you can use a word like evil now in our vocabulary, we have to trace these ideas.

It's an important part of our work thinking through the responsibility of our times.

So let's look at what's going on right now on so many college campuses, let's look at

the intellectual left turning on Israel and let's just answer the question, why could

this be so right now?

Because something had to happen a long time ago in order for these ideas to have germinated

for so long, only to leap onto the headlines right now.

So we need to do something of an intellectual, say, examination, not an autopsy, because

these ideologies are very much alive, but still an understanding of what we're dealing

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