Weekly Cultural Update: Rise of Christian Faith in Women's Basketball, UK Supreme Court Rules on Gender, France Passes a New Law Regarding Sperm Donation, Richard Dawkins Asks, "Who is a Christian?"
Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture
Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae
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🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Embracing Christian faith becomes more popular in women's basketball. |
| 0:06.0 | Richard Dawkins asked, who is a Christian? |
| 0:09.0 | And the UK Supreme Court issues a landmark reeling on gender, |
| 0:13.0 | and France puts new laws into effect on sperm and egg donors being anonymous. |
| 0:18.0 | These are the stories we'll cover today and we'll take some of your as always |
| 0:21.0 | excellent questions. I'm your host Scott Ray and sitting in for Shona's on the road today |
| 0:25.5 | is my Talbot colleague, Dr. Eric Tonus. This is a think-biblically weekly cultural update |
| 0:30.5 | brought to you by Talbot School of Theology at Biola University. Eric, welcome. Really glad to |
| 0:35.2 | have you join us again this time. Thanks, Scott. It's good to be back. Now, on this Good Friday, some encouraging news from the world of women's basketball. This is a |
| 0:43.1 | story you sent me about Christian faith becoming more popular and more outspoken in women's basketball. |
| 0:48.3 | And this is according to the first pick in this week's WNBA draft, the MVP of the women's final four, national champion |
| 0:56.9 | Yukon's Paige Becker's. |
| 0:59.2 | She put it like this. |
| 1:00.5 | She said, I think people are more outward in their faith than more comfortable talking about |
| 1:04.8 | it and maintain that the more you see it popularize, the more comfortable everybody |
| 1:09.5 | becomes with it. |
| 1:11.5 | But I definitely think it's growing in terms of being outspoken about their faith. Now, Eric, we've talked about |
| 1:17.2 | other sports figures and their faith in the past. We've actually talked about athletes giving |
| 1:21.5 | credit to God when they win, not to mention what that says about the players for the losing team. |
| 1:26.6 | But what struck you about this story in particular in women's basketball? |
| 1:31.1 | Well, I'm working really hard to be objective here because I'm from Connecticut. |
| 1:35.7 | And the Yukon women's basketball team just is legendary there. |
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