It's Wednesday, November 20, 2024. I'm Albert Mowler, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Just in recent days, USA Today ran a headline, quote, Biden's higher education policies at risk, end quote,

at risk, you think?

When you look at the two parties in the United States, and of course, as we often say,

you're looking at two increasingly discernible moral worldviews, when you look at the issue

of education and you look at the two parties, they're in completely different territory.

They both use the word education, but education has

become a code word, which in this political context means if you get right down to it, they're not

even talking about the same thing. Now, they may be talking about the same people, which would be

school children. They might be talking about some of the same buildings and some of the same

school systems,

but when they talk about education, here's the worldview analysis that is needful.

They're not talking about the same thing.

The division on the question of education is as revealing and as important as almost any other issue.

The only prior issue here would be those related to creation order, including the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of marriage and the family. But looking at education,

you are looking at where the government has become increasingly involved and where at this

point conservatives are increasingly concerned about that government involvement.

There's a fight that at the political

and the economic level has to do with the governance of the schools and, frankly, who's going to

establish the policies. The bottom line is this, however, if you provide the funding, you

effectively provide the strategies. And that has been the argument the left has been using

for the better part of the

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