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>> Tim Wildmon: Welcome to today's Issues, offering a Christian response to the issues of the day.

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>> Tim Wildmon: The American Family Association. Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to Today's Issues. That's the name of this program here on the American Family Radio Network for this Tuesday, June 3, 2025. Thanks for listening to AFR. Joining me in studios, Wesley Wildmon. Good morning, Wesley.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Good morning and glad to be back on Today's Issues.

>> Tim Wildmon: Glad to have you back.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I was off for a couple weeks, had some work travel, then had some, vacation travel and now back to real, real life.

>> Tim Wildmon: Back to the real world.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yep.

>> Tim Wildmon: Chris Woodward. Good morning, brother Chris.

>> Christopher Woodward: Good morning.

>> Tim Wildmon: And Ray Pritchard. Good morning, Ray.

>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, good morning, Tim. How you doing today?

>> Tim Wildmon: Doing well. Good to talk to you again. you're busy with your summer travel? Some.

>> Tim Wildmon: We've been out and about. We were in Florida last week and home for a very few days and then it really starts next week up to Chicago, then to Oregon and then back here. It's just this, this summer has us going from coast to coast. So I'm glad to be able to drop in and be with you guys today.

>> Tim Wildmon: Now, for those who don't know you, your ministry, Keep Believing. That's the name of it. Keep Believing. And you can check, Ray out@keep believing.com. but Ray, travels the country teaching the scripture at, various, summer camps. That's. What do you do, two or three of them?

>> Tim Wildmon: this summer I'm doing five, which is a little much. we start in Oregon and be there in about a week and a half and then in July we're going to be in upstate New York and then in New Jersey and then back home and then up to Maine almost Maine almost to Canada, then back home and then back to New Jersey again. So basically this summer it's the west coast and up in the Northeast.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Hey, you did better than I do. I've got a similar type schedule, but at least you knew where you were going. I don't look. I don't know if it's a personality thing, but I don't look until the day before I know I'm going somewhere.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Wesley Wildmon: But don't ask me a question. I. I look at everything the day before and I. And I have my. I have my moment where I just soak it all up and I learn everything. But wow, that was impressive. Right? You want to do that one more time for us?

>> Tim Wildmon: I don't think. I don't think I could.

Chris: Wesley, for the first time ever, you're going to summer conference

>> Wesley Wildmon: Wesley, I was going to ask you a serious question. So, obviously we know you travel. Are any of these places new places or are these, returning, places?

>> Tim Wildmon: The first four are places I've been before. Cannon Beach, Word of Life, America's Keswick, and the Living Waters up in Maine. But for the first time ever, in the summer, I'm going to a place, Wesley, on the New Jersey Atlantic Seashore, a place called Harvey Cedars Bible Conference. Old Bible Conference. Been around, I guess about 90 years. And, I have never been there to do a week of summer Bible conference. And it's, it's. I mean, I'm showing you with my hand here, you're watching right on the Atlantis, what you think. Harvey Cedars is, right on the Atlantic Ocean there.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Wonderful. Let me add this quick M plug too, and then I'll pass it over to dad. years ago, way before I, was even. I mean, they were talking about high school days, middle school and high school days, before I even met Ray personally or even was, you know, with their college and came in, Keep Believing Ministries had a major impact on my life for many, many years early on, primarily because of their apologetic material that Ray offers. And so I encourage those that have young, high school college students that are, you know, kind of questioning things, trying to figure some things out, trying to grow and their, Their, maturity and their depth of the scriptures raise, ministry. And the website of being able to engage that age group is phenomenal. So go check out Key believing dot com. Tons of materials you can go back for. You can archive probably a decade's worth of materials, right?

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, at least that much. And some of it may go back a couple of decades. So, Wesley, thank you so much. yeah, folks, come see us at keep, believing dot com.

>> Tim Wildmon: Keep believing dot com. Dr. Frank Turek will be on the way in just a few moments. Frank, usually doesn't have much to say or offer to the program, but we gotta have him on but we gotta have. We'll see what he does today. but he'll be on with us in just a few minutes on the program. We look forward to talking to him. What's leading the news, Chris?

Canadian wildfire smoke continues to pose a threat to several U.S. states

>> Christopher Woodward: Well, Canadian, wildfire smoke continues to pose a threat to several U.S. states. those, states, including Michigan and Minnesota, for people not aware of this, massive, wildfires from British Columbia through Alberta and Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, thousands, of acres, are on fire. And that continues to pose an air quality alert again for people in states like Michigan and Minnesota. I've got a little bit of audio from Fox Weather meteorologist Adam Klotch talking about the severity of the situation. Clip 1. I mean, the air quality is certainly bad in that region.

>> Tim Wildmon: It's actually spilling in the United States. If you guys remember, two years ago, it was June 7th, so almost exactly.

>> Christopher Woodward: Now when all of that smoke funneled into New York city, that was 5 million acres burned. We're looking at close to 5 million acres burned here. But this obviously much further off towards the west, as Todd was kind of mentioning, the air quality as a result is really plummeting and, it's beginning to seep not only across Canada, but down into some of these areas across the United States. Meanwhile, parts of South Carolina today are experiencing a separate but related threat. Ah, high ozone pollution levels worsened by weakened weekend smoke interaction. So Michigan, Minnesota, South Carolina, your air quality is probably not going to be the best today.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I just know that I had PTSD when I read a headline that said, stay in the government regulating you to stay inside. Then, I had to read this. I had to read the story. The headline alone. I. Ptsd. But I understand what they're doing. They're trying to look after. I get you.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right, right, right.

>> Wesley Wildmon: It took me a minute.

>> Tim Wildmon: right. I guess you're Nothing affecting the Kansas City region. Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, we've got Noah's flood on the way here.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Tim Wildmon: You know, we, there's smoking haze everywhere else. And, we just, we are in the. You know, sometimes I tell you, Tim, I'll give you a tea time, but it's all underwater this morning.

Daily Mail blames climate change for devastating tornado in Kentucky

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, have you talked to your sons up in, you got one, One son living in Montana.

>> Tim Wildmon: One in Montana. And they have had, they've been hit with crazy weather dropping down from Canada and with this. Yeah, yes. The haze and the smoke, the whole thing.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Well, I know that South Carolina, they've had, the forest fires going on for weeks.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I didn't realize. Yeah, well, I was on vacation, too.

>> Tim Wildmon: I know. And so, you know, one of the websites I read is Daily Mail usually, and they're. They're a news site, but they're also sensationalists with their. With their words that they use. Everything is amazing or tragic or horrific or. They got some adjectives to get you. It's clickbait. Right.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: So. But they were talking about the Saharan desert air, dust coming over here, to cross the ocean, going to impact some. Some states here. And then they talk about, then the Indians, these wildfires that.

>> Christopher Woodward: Yeah. one other weather story today. This is from the Weather Channel. Hurricane season obviously began on June 1, and the National Hurricane center is already tracking, something they say we need to watch off the southeast coast. If you're, east of, Florida on up through the Carolinas, you may be getting some sort of tropical disturbance here in the coming days.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, well, listen, we got enough problems in this country. We don't need that.

>> Wesley Wildmon: We don't need natural ones.

>> Tim Wildmon: We don't need to start thinking ahead about problems we might have. Right, Chris?

>> Christopher Woodward: Well, listen, if we. If we, ran our lives worried about something, we'd never get anything done.

>> Tim Wildmon: Every year a Republican is in the White House is when they warn against major hurricane season.

>> Christopher Woodward: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, because of. No, because of global climate change caused by Republicans.

>> Christopher Woodward: This is because Donald Trump and the big beautiful bill.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Are causing the climate to warm, which causes major hurricanes. It's just like. And then when the Democrats get into office, well, then they say, well, you know that, like, Biden went to, When Biden was in office, he went down to, Kentucky.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, yeah.

>> Christopher Woodward: For the tornado.

>> Tim Wildmon: The tornado. Help, me out here. We have listened a lot of listeners there. I've lost my.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Talk about the name of the.

>> Tim Wildmon: Are you looking for the name the town that was.

>> Wesley Wildmon: We'll get the town. I thought you were thinking about the tornado.

>> Tim Wildmon: It was.

>> Christopher Woodward: Wait for it.

>> Tim Wildmon: No, it was a town in Kentucky that was almost destroyed.

>> Christopher Woodward: Mayfield.

>> Tim Wildmon: Mayfield. Yeah, Mayfield. And. And Biden said this is because of climate, change.

>> Christopher Woodward: Says the guy who flew in a giant airplane to get there.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right, Duly noted. But I'm going like they're acting like tornadoes have never happened in America before, you know, but it was just. They just politically exploiting it to try to, make people believe that.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Sure.

>> Tim Wildmon: Quote, the carbon.

>> Wesley Wildmon: and they don't waste time either.

>> Tim Wildmon: No, no.

>> Wesley Wildmon: They just, like. They don't do with the. With the mass shooting or.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Wesley Wildmon: They don't waste,

>> Tim Wildmon: They place blame.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.

Dr. Frank Turek says climate will be just fine after Jesus return

>> Tim Wildmon: All right. You're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. We're joined now by Dr. Frank Turek, host of I Don't have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist. Heard Saturday at 9am Central Time and Sunday afternoon at 4pm Central Time right here on American Family Radio. Good morning, brother Frank.

>> Frank Turek: The climate's going to be just fine, ladies and gentlemen, because Jesus is later going to burn the whole thing up.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, carbon m. He doesn't need a carbon footprint.

>> Frank Turek: That's global warming.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, is that right? Okay.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's the best way to start your message, right?

>> Frank Turek: That's right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yep.

>> Frank Turek: He's going to burn it up and start over.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: When is that going to happen?

>> Frank Turek: No, one knows the time, nor the hour, day, nor the season.

>> Tim Wildmon: Burn the whole thing up and start over.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right.

>> Frank Turek: We just always have to be ready. He could come at any minute.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, that's true. No, what we're joking around here about, but that's true. What you just said is true. Jesus will return again to Earth.

Frank says you don't have to believe in bodily resurrection to be Christian

Hey, I want to ask you, Frank, we were talking about a clip that we. Somebody sent me this morning from Twitter. It's got to be real, right? Anyway, it was about a, gentleman in England. Great Britain. N.T. wright.

>> Frank Turek: Yes.

>> Tim Wildmon: He's a, well known, What is he a well known what?

>> Frank Turek: He's a well known biblical scholar who wrote actually a very good book on the Resurrection in 2003 called the Resurrection of the Son of God. It's one of the better books on the resurrection out there.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, well, my question, the tweet that was sent to me and I haven't watched the whole thing, so. But all it says that this gentleman, N.T. wright, who you just said, says that you don't have to believe in the bodily resurrection of Christ to be a Christian. Now, do you have, to believe.

>> Frank Turek: First of all, he didn't actually say that.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, That's a good point to make.

>> Frank Turek: Yeah, he didn't say that. He said a friend of his who also was a scholar, Marcus Borg, more on the liberal side, didn't believe in it.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.

>> Frank Turek: But he, he in other ways seemed to be following Jesus. And what N.T. wright was trying to say is he is a muddled Christian. A muddled Christian.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Okay. And, so this is one of those. A friend of a friend.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, this is a good, this is a good point to make. This is why I didn't send this to like four or five people, including, I think, think. I think Frank, I sent this to you.

>> Frank Turek: Right, Yeah, I saw it. Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so. So it was a tweet. And of course on the Internet, what's the old saying about a, lie travels around the world before the truth has a chance. Put his pants on.

>> Frank Turek: That's right.

>> Tim Wildmon: so. But, but. So he didn't actually say that this gentleman, N.T. wright, that a lot of people are familiar with. But here's the question I have, the broader question I have related to this.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Guy did, though, right?

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. His friend, N.T. wright's friend, that he was referring to Marcus Borg.

>> Frank Turek: Yeah. Another scholar who has passed on.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yes, yes. So he can't defend himself. Right. people get attacked after they die, and then they can't defend themselves. But, but he did say what he said according to nt. right. But the broader question I have is, Frank, are there. Are there. Can you name three or four essentials? I know this is basic and elementary, and people are going, why are you asking this question? We all know the answer to it. but there's a reason why we have creeds. Yes. And there's a reason why we have, these things. We believe there's a reason that Jesus, that God put the Ten Commandments on tablets that would be read forevermore. I mean, so, are there essentials, that you have to believe in order to be a Christian?

>> Frank Turek: Yes, there are. and I know some people will get annoyed over this and the analogy I give people when they say, well, who. Who made you the boss of what Christianity is and isn't, you know?

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Frank Turek: I simply ask people this question. Let's suppose we were all with Moses at the base of Mount Sinai when he came down with the Ten Commandments, and he said, here are the ten Commandments that Yahweh has given us. And we look, we all look at Moses and we say, moses. We don't like those 10. We have our own 10. Should we call ourselves followers of Yahweh?

>> Tim Wildmon: Is that a rhetorical question? Or should we ask?

>> Frank Turek: No, really, should we?

>> Tim Wildmon: No, no, no, of course not.

>> Frank Turek: We're not agreeing with Yahweh, so why would we call us followers of Yahweh? Right. When we look at Christianity, we have certain doctrinal statements that define what the faith is. Without those statements, without those truths, then Christianity could be atheism.

>> Christopher Woodward: Right.

>> Frank Turek: You've got to in some way differentiate what you believe about God, what you believe about yourself, what you believe about Jesus, what you believe about the resurrection, what you believe about salvation, what you believe about, Heaven and hell and all these things. In fact, it's been put this way. You know, you hear people saying, well, you know, religions all teach basically the same thing. They teach all you just ought to love one another. That's, that's what people will say. And the response to that is, first of all, that's not true. Some religions don't teach you how to love one another. In fact, that's the big reason we have all this violence in the Middle East. Right. They don't teach you how to love one another, but let's say for the sake of argument, they did. What we could say is, yeah, all religions teach, basically ought to love one another. They only differ on the nature of man, the nature of God, sin, salvation, heaven, hell, and creation.

Christianity is a completely 100% grace religion, unlike any other worldview

Outside of that, they're exactly the same. Right. The truth is, major world religions are only superficially the same and essentially different. They are not essentially the same and superficially different. And, of course, Christianity is centered around the fact that God himself comes to earth, lives the perfect life in our place, allows the creatures that rebelled against him to torture and kill Him. So since he is infinitely just, he could take our punishment upon Himself and then give us his righteousness if we trust in Him. Christianity is a completely 100% grace religion, unlike any other worldview. And it's built on an historical fact that Jesus came to earth, lived the perfect life in our place, died, rose again to prove he was God, that he had a divine nature and a human nature. And by trusting in him, we're not only forgiven, but we're given his righteousness. That's what it's essentially all about. And for someone to come along and say, well, I'm a Christian, but I don't believe Jesus was God. Which Marcus Borg didn't believe, and that's the friend of N.T. wright. And to say that Jesus, didn't, rise from the dead, he may have risen spiritually, but not physically. this is not someone that is claiming to adhere to some of the fundamental doctrines of Christianity. If you miss the resurrection, you miss everything.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Okay, so this is Wesley here. So there's obviously things in the scripture that you can extrapolate, and then there's some that are very specific.

>> Tim Wildmon: By, the way, I'm impressed with the word extrapolate.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Oh, I appreciate. I was a B plus in English.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, and you were also. You hung around me a lot.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. That, that helps.

>> Tim Wildmon: That kind of rubbed off some influence there. Then you go ahead and extrapolate.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I was then you got, you got peripheral and core issues is another way of saying it. So this is where I've found over the years, is that, this is how you end up with different denominations, obviously, you know, not speaking in anything too, smart, there. But. So where would. And again, even within this conversation, you're going to get divisions among Christians. But where would you personally.

>> Tim Wildmon: you're not going to get into like, tongues and role of women in the church and.

>> Wesley Wildmon: No, I'm going to ask Frank, what are, what are the core essentials to the Christian faith?

The core essentials of the Christian faith is there is a God

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, go.

>> Frank Turek: The core essentials of the Christian faith is there is a God. You are not Him. that this God came to earth, as I mentioned earlier, in human form, died, rose again to prove he was God. And by trusting in him, you're not only forgiven, but you're given his righteousness. So we're believing in God. We're believing that Jesus is also God. He's the second person of the Trinity. We're believing that we're sinners and we can't save ourselves. And by trusting in him, we're forgiven and given his righteousness and, and the fact that Jesus rose from the dead confirms that he was God and confirms our ultimate state. And if you look at, say.

>> Christopher Woodward: The.

>> Frank Turek: Nicene Creed, there's one God, the Father Almighty. Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God. He was begotten, not made. He's co. Equal with the Father. There's the Holy Spirit, who is the Lord, the Giver of life. There's one holy and universal church. I know the word Catholic is there, but people get confused. It doesn't mean Roman Catholic. It means universal church. And there's a resurrection of the dead. There's a life of the world to come, and there's, going to be a judgment. These are all essentials of the faith. As Ted was mentioning earlier, you know, there are secondary issues like end times. You know, when is that going to happen? How's it going to happen? There's baptism. Is it, you know, immersion or sprinkling? Is it, do you believe in Calvinism or Arminianism or Molinism? do you believe in, women pastors and all the, you know, you could, you can argue over all those things. They're secondary issues compared to the essentials. And Paul says this in Romans 10. If you confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: okay. okay, Frank, That's it's, it's amazing. I'm glad that you brought this up, Romans 10. Now, because I opened it, I've got it open here on YouVersion, because it's such a great point. Believe. Confess with your mouth, Jesus is Lord. And then it says, believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead. So I listened to that same clip you listened to where, NT Wright was talking about his friend Marcus Borg and, you know, a muddled Christian and all of that. And, N.T. wright essentially says that Marcus Borg doesn't believe in the physical resurrection. He believes that Jesus was raised spiritually. I don't even know what that means, because in Romans 10:9, God raised him. Jesus, the man who died in the body, raised him. To me, it has to mean raised in the body from the dead. So what does it mean? What could it possibly mean, Frank, to be raised in the spirit, but not in the flesh?

>> Frank Turek: Well, it could mean that, yeah, he just went. His spirit went to be with the Father, similar to what happens to us now when we die, you know, absent from the body, present with the Lord, and our bodies and our spirits will be reunited at a future period. But there's no way of proving that empirically. You see, the apostles took the hard way to show that Christianity is true. They could have said, oh, he's resurrected in our hearts, you know, when his body is still in the tomb. How can you prove that? Right? But when he walks out of the tomb and the tomb remains empty. And the Jews and the Romans would have loved to have squashed Christianity by taking the body out of the tomb, parading it around the city and saying, stop all this nonsense talk about the resurrection. Here's his body. He's dead. They didn't do that. They said he physically rose from the dead. That's an empirical claim that can be verified. It's not just, oh, I have this sense he's gone to be with the Father while his body rots in the tomb. They took the hard way. Also, I think this shows that ultimately God wins. if Satan had somehow won in the physical world, meaning that our bodies were never resurrected, that wouldn't mean that God had power over Satan to resurrect the body, to resurrect us. Ultimately, the resurrection of Christ and, a remade heavens and earth shows that God ultimately wins in this physical creation. It's not just a spiritual resurrection, it's a physical resurrection.

>> Tim Wildmon: I'm reading through like the Romans and the Corinthians first, second Corinthians and so forth. And Paul the apostle Paul, everybody knows who that is. If you're familiar with the Bible. it's like every, I'm exaggerating here, but it's like once, a chapter, he goes, he basically saying, I'm talking about a man who was raised from the dead. Okay. Who he saw, he rose up from the dead. okay, so our faith is in somebody who conquered sin and physical death. And so that's, it's just, over and over and over and over and over again. There's no, like, you're saying, there's no.

>> Wesley Wildmon: you're saying the Bible. The Bible claims that he physically resurrected. It didn't leave for him.

>> Tim Wildmon: There's no nuance or, there's no metaphoric.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Translation or, you know, it's, it's, it's, hey, Jesus was physically dead and he wrote, he rose up from the dead and people saw him. You know what I'm saying?

>> Wesley Wildmon: And I'm impressed you use the word nuance.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, I, I can, I can spell it too.

>> Christopher Woodward: That my vocabulary.

American Family Radio Network will host a summit next week in Tupelo

>> Frank Turek: Hey, Wesley, we got to talk about next week in Tupelo.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yes, we do.

>> Tim Wildmon: Is that sold out?

>> Wesley Wildmon: It's sold out. Activate summit next week. So we really don't want to tell people they can't. Hey, on a serious note, you've got somewhere you're going to be on June 5th. Tell us quickly.

>> Frank Turek: oh, on June 5th it'll be a summit. We're a summit out in Colorado. but, that's probably sold out too, so you can't do that either.

>> Wesley Wildmon: So what about your program?

>> Tim Wildmon: Right?

>> Frank Turek: Oh, well, yeah, I got a program coming up on, the sixth and seventh. Well, it's going to be this weekend, as you know, 9 o' clock central, 10 o' clock eastern, right there on.

>> Tim Wildmon: American Family Radio Network. Thanks, Frank.

>> Frank Turek: All right, see you guys.

Over 60% of abortions happen through the abortion pill

>> Tim Wildmon: This June 24th marks three years since Roe versus Wade was overturned. But here's what you may not know. Abortion numbers have surged to, to a 10 year high. The battleground has shifted from the courtroom, to our homes. Today, over 60% of abortions happen through the abortion pill. Taken in silence, often alone. Preborn network clinics are standing in the gap, meeting women in their most desperate hour. And here's what they're seeing. Young mothers, terrified and misled, are delivering their babies, tiny, perfectly formed, onto bathroom floors. These precious babies, once called just tissue, now lie lifeless. 11% of these women who take the abortion pill will suffer serious health complications. Countless others carry emotional scars for a lifetime. When you give to preborn, you're not just saving a baby, you're saving a mother, too. You're giving her hope, financial support, and the truth. PreBorn has already rescued over 350,000 babies, but there are so many more who need our help. Your tax deductible gift makes this mission possible. To donate now, dial 250 and say the keyword baby. That's £250 baby. Or go to preborn.com afr that's preborn.com afr this is today's issues. Email your comments to commentsfr.net Past broadcasts.

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>> Tim Wildmon: And viewing in the [email protected] now back to more of, today's issues. Hey, welcome back, everybody, to today's issues on the American Family Radio Network. Tim, Wesley, Chris and Ray, we thank you for listening to AFR. Chris, what's the next story?

Firebomb attack on pro Israel supporters in Boulder, Colorado leaves two dead

>> Christopher Woodward: All right, a 45 year old illegal alien from Egypt has been charged with a hate crime for that firebomb attack on a group of pro Israel supporters over the weekend.

>> Tim Wildmon: Firebomb?

>> Christopher Woodward: Firebomb attack, on a group of pro Israel supporters in Boulder, Colorado who were calling attention to the Israeli hostages still in Hamas captivity. I bring this in because this morning border czar Tom Homan went on FOX and blaming the Biden administration for, among other things, allowing so many migrants here in the country.

>> Tim Wildmon: Clip 2 they created the biggest national security vulnerability this country's ever seen. Not only did 2 million known gotaways, 2 million people crossed the border. We don't know who they are, where they came from, we don't know where they are now. On top of that, even through the legal process, the Biden administration were bringing people unvetted, handing out work visa like they're candy while they sat here and planned something bad. We are going to be dealing with this for the next 10 years because of the chaos they created in four years. Two million people paid more to get away. They didn't want to be vetted. They didn't want to be fingerprinted. Why it should have scared every American what the Biden administration did this. Two men known got away, scares me. So I'm convinced something's coming unless we can find them.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, so just, just for a second, I said, I, question the use of the term firebomb because I hadn't heard that before. It was a flamethrower.

>> Christopher Woodward: Well, he had Molotov cocktail.

>> Tim Wildmon: Cocktails are, they called firebombs.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I refer, I understood what he meant when he said, okay, I was.

>> Tim Wildmon: When you say bombs to me, I'm thinking Oklahoma City.

>> Wesley Wildmon: No.

>> Tim Wildmon: And those kinds of things. It's a small. But it's very deadly. But it's. Anyway, he threw two or three of those into this small crowd who were only there in Colorado, the Boulder. Boulder area to, have a rally in support of the hostages in Israel. And this guy, he came to America from Egypt and, he had overstayed his work visa. Is that what it was?

>> Christopher Woodward: Which means he was here illegally.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yes. So. And then he went crazy here on. Whenever it was Saturday or Sunday afternoon and tried to kill, all those people. Kill all those people. And with a flamethrower too. so. But he's been the point. The gentleman right there, Tom Holman, the department, of. I mean, the, border. Border czar, basically is making. Right. And we've made it. We talked about this a lot. And this. This go. This, was, a big issue in the election and, for the, Well, I know the reason why Biden and the Democrats did this, but, I don't think that by this, I mean letting some say 15 million people.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Flood into our country try to avoid some say. I think it's when you say, well.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, I don't know the exact.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I know what you mean.

>> Tim Wildmon: I'm talking about, but. But, you know, 15 million people, whatever it was, I mean, we remember those first three years, there are reports.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Up to 18 million. I mean.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Ah, anywhere there. Over 10. Okay.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Million people into our country that we didn't know who they were. They just flooded in here because Biden, after he took office and Trump left, he said, I'm getting rid of all Trump's restrictions against people coming into their country. I think just despite Trump. Right. And also I think that Biden and the Democrats were hoping, hey, we get these millions of people here, let them end our country illegally, and then they become lifelong Democrats. Once we get them registered to vote.

>> Tim Wildmon: The first, you let them in, second, you get them registered. Third, they vote Democrat every single election. And the Republican Party, basically becomes a permanent minority party and the Dems are in the White House forever. It was a pretty good strategy in this sense. Millions of people got in illegally.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: And you can say, well, did they want it to be that way? Yes, some of them. Some of the. Some of the Democrats clearly wanted it to be that way. And I think Tom Holman was simply pointing out, we don't know who these people were. We don't know where they are now and some of them clearly are bad actors set on doing terrible things inside our country. We don't even have a way of tracking them down.

>> Tim Wildmon: They call them got aways. Yeah, go ahead, Go ahead, Chris.

Chris: Senate preparing to vote on big beautiful immigration bill this month

>> Christopher Woodward: Well, I was going to say we're probably going to hear more about what happened in Boulder, this month as the Senate prepares to vote on the so called big beautiful bill. And I say that because I've got a sound bite here of Senator Ted Cruz who says the big beautiful bill, or bbb, will prevent crimes like what we saw in Boulder from happening again. Clip 4 We're going to provide funding to build the wall, to hire more agents and ICE agents in detention facilities. But the Democrats continue just to embrace open borders. And apparently what they think America needs is more illegal immigrants, more gang members, more murderers, rapists, and more terrorists like this lunatic in Boulder. This guy was a lunatic who was at a pro Israel protest. Elderly Jewish people, including a Holocaust survivor there calling for the release of hostages taken on October 7th. And this guy screams free Palestine and, and lights them on fire. Based on that, I think Senator Cruz is a yes on the big beautiful bill.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, that's. Yes, that's sort of changing subjects. But what he, but he, he's relating the two.

>> Christopher Woodward: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Is Ted Cruz there? I don't know what will happen with that big beautiful bill when it gets through in the Senate. They got to negotiate it in the House again with the House, and who knows what's going to happen.

>> Wesley Wildmon: One other point I want to make on this story, before we move on, and I wanted to wait to the end, I didn't want to take away from the bigger points here, but a smaller point here, that should be emphasized is that, this guy was also denied a firearm because of the process that works that we have in place. Did you know that?

>> Tim Wildmon: So what, the guy in Boulder, Colorado.

>> Wesley Wildmon: The Egyptian guy, Ahmadi, mod.

>> Tim Wildmon: Somali who tried to kill all the people.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yes, sir. So he went to register for a gun and buy a gun legally. And our process worked. It denied him the right to purchase a firearm. Because then there's many reasons why you get denied. It's not just one. So the system worked when it's used properly. and so I just want to emphasize that when we get to, when we come back around, if he had to have used a firearm, he would have, he would have had to have gotten it illegally.

>> Tim Wildmon: Every time. Yes, every time. These, these things.

>> Wesley Wildmon: We don't need more gun laws because gun Laws worked if it's used properly anyways.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right. So we don't. This this is going to happen more and more. I'm talking about this, these eagle where these illegal immigrants, some of them gang members, cartel members and are just, just people committing crimes as it happens. More just. You have to remember who let all these people in?

>> Wesley Wildmon: Yeah, m. That's right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Who let all these people in? All right, next story. Chris.

Oregon high school senior Alexa Anderson refused to share podium with male

>> Christopher Woodward: All right, Oregon high school senior Alexa Anderson garnered national attention over the weekend when she refused to share the high jump metal podium with a male at a state track and field. Where was the shipment for females? it was in the state of Oregon. Now, viral footage of Anderson and fellow female athlete Reese Eckerd stepping down from the podium also showed an official gesturing for them to step to the side. Anderson, I have a clip from her. Alleges the official ordered her and Eckard, the other female athlete to get out of the photo if they were not going to stand on the podium with the male who says he is a she. I've got audio from Alexa herself last night on Laura Ingram Show. Clip 5. It's unfair because biological males and biological.

>> Tim Wildmon: Females compete at such different levels that.

>> Frank Turek: Allowing a biological male into our competition.

>> Tim Wildmon: Is taking up space and opportunity from all these hard working women.

>> Frank Turek: The girl in ninth who should have.

>> Tim Wildmon: Been in eighth and had that podium spot, had that taken away from her as well as many others. We stepped off the podium in protest and as you can see in the video, an official kind of told us, hey, go over there. If you're not going to participate, get out of the photos. You couldn't even have your moment. That wasn't allowed. You had to stand forward, not your back to it. Yes, they asked us to move away from the metal stand so when they took the photos we weren't even in it at all.

>> Christopher Woodward: I got to tell you, we've talked about this pretty much all year. males and female sports has been a big issue on this topic. And even though President Trump signed that executive order saying no more males in female sports, Oregon, California, Maine, if you're a blue state, pretty much your state's probably talking about it if it's not already thumbing the nose at Trump.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. And we'll see what happens with the money. Because President Trump is committed to, yes, cutting off the, some of the federal tax dollars that go for schools, to these states that you know that that are allowing boys to defeat girls.

>> Christopher Woodward: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: In competition.

>> Christopher Woodward: And interestingly enough, that Tactic, that threat of we're going to cut your funding is something that even Joe Biden threw out there when he tried to change Title 9 and make schools. Force.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Christopher Woodward: by force he was trying to make m. Males and females.

>> Tim Wildmon: I feel bad for people who live in these deep blue states in particular Ray, because the ones that don't.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Want to be there, that are trapped.

>> Christopher Woodward: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: They're trapped for their job or whatever. because this is. This, this movements just being jammed down their throats.

>> Tim Wildmon: I mean, what are you going to do? I got a lot of friends in Oregon. I'm going to be out right. A couple of weeks. We said that earlier. I mean there is a, There's a strong evangelical. It's a minority clearly in Oregon, but there's a strong evangelical community. What do you do if you've got, if you've got daughters and they love track. They love track and field and they're good in athletics. And what are you going to do when suddenly one of these trans. One of these guys who wants to pretend to be a girl and they allow him to be in the high jump or they allow him to be the 100 meters or whatever it is and your daughter loses. Loses the chance to win because you're racing against a guy who's pretending to be a girl. That puts you in an awful situation. Only thing I don't do, I don't really have any answers for that except God bless these young women who had the courage.

>> Tim Wildmon: I will say this about the podium, about the. Yes, absolutely. Good for them. because they're not participating in this, in this sham that's going on. But the other thing is I was on vacation last week and ah, we were on the, on the, on the Florida coast on the beach and I was visiting with some people and there was. They were another couple who had moved to a Nashville area and this is, have. This is not just true of the Nashville area but other parts of the country that had left California.

>> Tim Wildmon: And they said this and we. Why'd you leave? Well, they're just the liberal politics is getting And not only from the social issues but also from taxation and regulation.

>> Wesley Wildmon: And regulation of the farmers.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yes. Businesses and then the homelessness problem.

>> Wesley Wildmon: I mean and it's starting to creep outside the city a lot more quality of life. Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Is not, is not like it used to be in the. I guess the golden age of California.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Let me do this real quick. I want to, I want to emphasize and praise these Two girls one more time and then make a comment. You got Reese Eckerd, I think that's a pronounce name. Reese Eckerd from Sherwood High School and Alexa Anderson from Tigard High School there in Oregon. Now, in addition to that, I want to, I want to point out they were two of the. There's five other, women that had the opportunity to protest, and they didn't. There's eight winners they recognize. Eight female, well, female athletes. One was a man. the other seven were females and they were two of them. So we need more, like,

>> Tim Wildmon: Young ladies who are willing to stand up. Wriley Gaines.

>> Wesley Wildmon: That's right. There should, that should have been 100%. And if I, the father or the, or, or my wife was there and are the mother of the other five, I'd have helped out of, walked out there with them and said, hey, you're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna do this this way, you know, so they need.

>> Christopher Woodward: Some encouragement to, to add to our discussion here. I've got audio of Kim Herman. Now, Kim is an attorney with Southeastern Legal foundation who said to us at afn, yeah, listen, track and field, swimming, whatnot, it is just a game. But when it comes to things like high school sports, it matters that females are being forced to compete against males.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Clip 6 the reality is, is that.

>> Tim Wildmon: In sports there's winners and there's losers, right?

>> Wesley Wildmon: We want our 5, 6, 7 year.

>> Frank Turek: Olds to play the game, to, to.

Russian drone attack on Russian nuclear assets totally unexpected, Tim says

>> Tim Wildmon: Learn how to play game, the game. But when you're talking about, athletes at a high school level, you are.

>> Tim Wildmon: Talking about scholarships that are on the line. You were talking about whether or not.

>> Tim Wildmon: Some of these girls will have the.

>> Tim Wildmon: Opportunity to go to college on a scholarship. And those scholarships are based off of.

>> Tim Wildmon: Winning and losing and off of people's records. And so when boys compete in girls sports and they take these championships, take.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Them, they are cheating.

>> Tim Wildmon: They are also taking away scholarship opportunities.

>> Tim Wildmon: And for many of these young women, it is the opportunity at all to go to college.

>> Tim Wildmon: All right, you're listening to today's issues on American Family Radio. Thankfully, a lot of states have already taken the, red states in particular have taken the. You know, they've made it clear through state legislation that, only, only, the boys will compete with boys and girls will compete with girls when it comes to athletics. I want to change the subject. just a minute, Ray. Do you know, what, what's happened in the Ukrainian Russian war in the last 48, 72 hours? It's pretty amazing. do you know, do you know what I'm talking about?

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Would you explain it basically to our listeners?

>> Tim Wildmon: As best I did. it totally unexpected. A major drone attack from Ukraine. Deep, deep into Russia. It's one thing to do a drone attack, Tim, 20 or 30 miles across the border. So they went much deeper into Russia and they hit the Russian strategic nuclear assets. And everybody is asking the question, how did they do that? Where did they get that information? And behind that is the question who else knew about it? Did, Would would the Ukraine have dared to do that without letting the White House know? Did the White House sign off on it? Tacitly, so to speak. It's I was reading an article a little while ago. The folks in the Kremlin are understandably furious because this is an attack at the very heart of the. I started to say Soviet, the Russian. Nuclear arsenal. No one expected this, I would say, Tim, it's a major escalation in the, in the war and the tension between Russia and Ukraine. And you kind of wonder now Tim, if, if Russia is going to answer back on what they're going to do. I don't, I don't see this as moving the peace process forward. it seems like it's further apart now and peace, any so called peace agreement seems further away to me than it did 48 hours ago.

Ukraine apparently used a drone to destroy a bridge between Crimea and Ukraine

>> Tim Wildmon: In addition to what you just described, there was a news story this morning. Crimea. Ah, for those who don't know, is a Used to be part of the Ukraine.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right, right.

>> Tim Wildmon: The Ukraine, the country. And then what was it about? It was during the Obama administration. Was it 10 years ago or 12 years ago?

>> Christopher Woodward: Crimea.

>> Tim Wildmon: 12.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. When Russia took it over. Russia, you know, they want a Black Sea port in Crimea. I mean that's the perfect 2014.

>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, 2014.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: The Russian with no resistance, took over Crimea. They basically took that from the Ukraine.

>> Tim Wildmon: Sure, sure.

>> Tim Wildmon: And so they've So it's some, A lot of people call it occupied Crimea because Russia occupies it. But, but so Russia has been there with their troops and, and so forth and Ukraine evidently used a drone to destroy a bridge.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right, right.

>> Tim Wildmon: And I read where it's the only bridge between Crimea and Ukraine. Is that what you read?

>> Tim Wildmon: That's exactly right.

>> Tim Wildmon: So let me just say this about. And I'm no expert whatsoever on geopolitical events anywhere in the world, but just following this, I read about this, the Ukraine, Russia, war. Keep up with it. I think now Ukraine is making a Statement that they are in it for the long haul, longer than the three years, and they'll go down in a blaze of glory if they have to. But they're not giving. I don't think maybe, Zelinsky and his team will decide to give up more land to Russia in this effort to end the war. I'm not saying that would be a bad thing, but I am saying with the strikes they've made in the last few days, with this, top secret, I mean, right out of Hollywood. Right tack in deep inside Russia, which is shocking, with drones that destroyed big military,

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: I mean, what do you call them?

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, you know, this whole thing about drone warfare has completely changed the nature of the battlefield. Tim M. You've seen some of these. I mean, the drones can be used for micro hits.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: You've seen some of these videos.

>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Where there are Russian soldiers sitting there and there's a drone buzzing around.

>> Tim Wildmon: No question. Without drones, Russia would have already taken over.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right, Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Ukraine.

>> Tim Wildmon: So, so sometimes you have these little tiny drones, but they can, they can take out an individual soldier. But in this case, you have, there's some kind of super secret technology that the rest of us don't know about that allowed those drunk, the Ukrainian drones to get up, get through Russian airspace and hit those, hit those strategic Russian air bases that. I think the Russians never expected that to happen. So the whole, the whole military calculus on the battlefield has changed now.

>> Tim Wildmon: I, I just don't think that President Trump's engaged in this anymore. I think he's dropped it. This is the sense I'm getting.

>> Wesley Wildmon: Or these.

>> Tim Wildmon: He gave it his best shot. He gave it his best shot at getting the two sides to a peaceful solution and it didn't work. And so he sort of washed his hands of it. Is that what you got? Kind of think, well, it does feel that way.

>> Tim Wildmon: I mean, he did say. Right. And everybody understand. Trump speaks in hyperbole on the first day. In one day, I can solve the Ukrainian war with Russia in one day. And then he gave it his best shot. He intervened. We had the showdown with Zelensky, and then he basically called out Putin a week or two ago. He does have the feeling he's gone. Look, I can't do anything to help.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right? Yeah. They're just going to have to work it out. It just have to be what it is. I just don't think, I think President Trump's,

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, then let me ask you the question, if that's true, are the Russians Just going to sit back and take this, or are they not going to retaliate?

>> Tim Wildmon: That's scary.

>> Tim Wildmon: It is scary.

>> Tim Wildmon: It's a scary thought. Because retaliation, up in the level of combat between the two, would mean potentially losing, using,

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. Nuclear, strategic or battlefield nuclear weapons.

>> Tim Wildmon: so. And Kiev. well, they already are bomb in Kiev. Some.

>> Tim Wildmon: Sure.

>> Tim Wildmon: Russia is. So that's the, key being the major metropolitan area there in the major city in Ukraine. Have you had any contact at all with your folks over there in the Ukraine?

>> Tim Wildmon: I mentioned last week that I was, down in Florida, or mentioned earlier I was down in Florida last week and ran into completely, quote, providential chance, if you want to call it that, the leader of Word of Life's work in the Ukraine. And we talked for a little bit. it is shattering. I can just.

Ray Fischer: It is shattering what has happened to the Ukrainian people

That's the word that I would use. It is shattering what has happened to the Ukrainian people. And they have been pushed and pushed and pushed to the limit.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: Which. So I think in poker terms, this, doing this drone. This an amazing drone strike on the strategic, basis that's almost like standing up and pushing every. To the middle of the table and saying, okay, boys, we're going all in now.

>> Tim Wildmon: I know. You know, President Trump said Russia had all the cards right in a gambling metaphor, but he said that.

>> Tim Wildmon: Turns out Ukraine had a few.

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, yeah, I was going to say that. That makes me think they're not telling the White House everything. And from their point of view, I don't blame them because, And again, I'm not faulting President Trump. I'm not saying everything he's decided is right or wrong. I'm not making a value judgment on that. I'm just saying I do think he's underestimated the commitment of, the Ukraine to fight back against Russia and evidently their ability to do so.

>> Tim Wildmon: Right.

>> Tim Wildmon: based on what's happened here in the last three or four.

>> Tim Wildmon: Well, you sort of wonder who gave them this technology if it wasn't us. Was it Germany? Was it. Was it one of the other European countries? France? Yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: Who knows?

>> Christopher Woodward: France is really good at getting involved in a conflict, getting out of it is another historical conversation, to your point, about the Trump administration seemingly, stepping back from that. There was a story to that effect yesterday from ABC News, which we all know is most likely against Trump. But they even, they do say the Trump administration has stepped back, ah, from talks here. Marco Rubio has been involved in some things, but even he has not, been involved in recent days?

>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, well, you know, most of the world's wars have been over land. the other reasons. Ideology, money, resources, retaliation for something, perceived wrongs. But, probably a majority of the world's wars over history have been over, land. People won't. And Russia. Russia saying, you know, Ukraine's a threat to them and NATO's a threat to them. And, of course, so Russia was the one, though. Russia was the country that started attacking first militarily.

>> Christopher Woodward: Oh, yeah.

>> Tim Wildmon: In this war. So that is a, That is a fact. All right. We will return with more of today's issues on the American Family Radio Network. Pray for the Christian people Ray's talking about in the Ukraine. well, pray for the Christian people in Russia, too. They don't want to be at war either. But this has just been, you said shattering.

>> Tim Wildmon: Shattering.

>> Tim Wildmon: Shattering to.

>> Tim Wildmon: It was on his face as we talked last week. Shattering.

>> Tim Wildmon: Wow. Imagine, your homeland being under attack, under siege for two or three years by, a foreign enemy and how you would, you know, react to that. We'll be back with more of today's issues in a moment. Stay with us. The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.

Tim, Wesley and Ray talk with Chris on top news headlines of the day. Also, Dr. Frank Turek joins the program to discuss some core essentials for Christian Faith.