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{"found_url":"https:\/\/albertmohler.com\/2026\/03\/24\/briefing-3-24-26\/","crawl_time":1776276306,"first_indexed_time":1774344067,"http_code":200,"src_unparsed":"com,albertmohler!\/2026\/03\/24\/briefing-3-24-26\/ s443","src_root_hash":"15731983553888329626","history_drop_reason":null,"meta_title":"Tuesday, March 24, 2026 - AlbertMohler.com","meta_descriptions":["Cultural commentary from a Biblical perspective","Cultural commentary from a Biblical perspective"],"attrs_boilerpipe_text":"It’s Tuesday, March 24th, 2026. \nI’m Albert Mohler, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.\nPart I\nThe Death of the OnlyFans Owner: Leonid Radvinsky’s Death Brings the Evil Reality of the Pornography Industry into the Headlines\nThere’s so many big news stories around us, so many happenings in the culture, so many issues thrown at us that Christians need to think through and need to understand in terms of a Christian worldview. Some of them are easier to talk about than others, and in its own category came the news yesterday that Leo Radvinsky, the owner of the vast website known as OnlyFans, had died at age 43 of cancer. Now, the death of Leo Radvinsky is a story into itself. The emergence of OnlyFans as one of the most significant purveyors of pornography in all of human history, well that’s very much due to Leo Radvinsky’s plan. Radvinsky himself was born in what is now the former Soviet Union in what is now present day Ukraine.\nHis family came to the United States, lived in Chicago, he graduated from Northwestern University. He obviously was way ahead of his time in terms of digital technology and interest about how to commercialize the web and how to commercialize web traffic. He went into several different ventures before eventually centering in OnlyFans, which he purchased and basically ran. And through his leadership and during his leadership, that particular pornography site exploded to 377 million users, bringing in more than $7.2 billion in revenue in a single year. So again, the numbers, 377 million users. That’s larger than the population of the United States of America. $7.2 billion. We’re talking about a massive amount of money. \nNow, on the one hand, what this just underlines is the power of a distorted morality, a distortion of human sexuality, a distortion of creation order that is represented by the entire world of pornography.\nBut we’re also looking at the fact that this is a story that could only happen at this point in human history. So, let’s just review a certain, say, historical survey of this issue. Pornography has been a problem ever since there were drawings made on caves. In other words, it’s just so much a part of the fallen human imagination that such things can be drawn and people can see them thousands of years later and go, “Okay, I know what that is.” All right. It is a distortion and a manipulation of God’s good gift of making us male and female, and establishing marriage and the sexual union, and the command be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, which was given to the first couple, to Adam and Eve. And what is intended to be a unitive gift to a man and a woman within the covenant of marriage for multiple goods, including the gift of children.\nThe distortion of a sinful world leads to the fact that 3.77 million users are officially registered, and that means at least some kind of formal registry often involving financial information with this one platform, a platform that has done at least $7.2 billion a year. Leo Radvinsky saw the opportunity to commercialize pornography in such a way that, I’ll just say, a provider of pornography, and in most cases this means one way or another a sex worker, is actually able to use the platform to sell pornographic materials, and to sell it in such a way that persons can go on and well, you can do the math. They can find what they’re looking for, they can pay for it. It doesn’t surprise us, I think, that the distortion of human sexuality in the Fall, and the fact that even as Romans chapter one tells us that people, sinners can give themselves over to sin, when you talk about this kind of industry at this kind of scale, you’re talking about the mass industrial production of pornography.\nAnd we’re also talking about it being consumer driven to such an extent that 377 million people are involved in this as registered users. And of course, there are thousands upon thousands of those who are also providing. Now, there’s so many dimensions to this, and maybe we just need to go over for a moment the fact that in every situation pornography is wrong, because pornography is based upon the Greek word\nporneia\n, which is wrongful desire. Okay, so that really, in terms of scriptural truth, just cuts through to the heart of the matter. Porneia is a corruption of and a distortion of something good. It is wrongful sexual desire. That means that there can be rightful sexual desire within the context of marriage that makes it holy.\nBut when you talk about what this particular platform was commercializing, the OnlyFans platform, it was not a celebration of creation order biblical sexuality, it was the commercialization and mass production of its corruption and distortion. Well, all right, let’s talk about another Christian aspect of this, Christian biblical worldview aspect of this. What does it tell us that this is actually a mass industry? It tells us this is a massive problem. It tells us that what Paul describes in Romans chapter one is actually endemic in our society. As a society increasingly, we’re just given over to this kind of corruption and this kind of pornography. And evidence of that comes in the fact that OnlyFans is of interest to some people, not because of pornography at all but because of its financial success. There are people who look at it and say, “Look, this is an interesting financial model.”\nThere were capital investment companies looking at purchasing OnlyFans simply because it is such a viable commercial product. If there are $7.2 billion on the table this year, well, there are venture capitalists and investors who could say it could be eventually $40 billion. The sky is the limit. The other issue for Christians is just to remind ourselves of what is essentially wrong with this. What is the evil at the heart of this? And that’s where we come to understand that what the secular world wants to say about Christians is often that we’re just anti-body and anti-sex, and that’s just profoundly not true. Being just profoundly anti-body and anti-sex would be anti-biblical, anti-creation order. You can’t possibly buy into that kind of denial and then at the same time celebrate God’s holy institution of marriage. You can’t celebrate a young man and a young woman entering into the holy covenant of marriage.\nYou can’t celebrate nor fulfill that divine mandate to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. No, we have to see here that there’s big money, big, big money and the corruption of something good, and that’s just a basic Christian worldview issue. This is helpful, if we can just see it, most of the horrible things in the world are intentional subversions and corruptions of something that is good. It is something good turned into something evil by the fact that it’s wrenched out of its biblical context, it is corrupted from its creation order context and is made to be something else. Here’s another big lesson, something else sells. The Christian worldview has to explain why this kind of material is so very popular. How is it that human beings have found their way on a cave wall or on a massive digital platform to find, or to sell, or to consume this kind of material?\nWell, it is because we just see here the power of sin and the power of human depravity matched with human ingenuity. Well, that just leads to an ever-expanding problem. And when we talk about an ever-expanding problem, let’s just state the obvious, you had to look at a cave wall to see it. You had to be there to see it. When you’re talking about even, and many of us who are alive now, going back to the time when I was a teenager, a young man, you really didn’t have to worry about this issue in the same way. There was no internet, there was no widespread access even to this material. And thanks be to God for most people in my generation it wasn’t much of a problem, particularly for Christian young men, because frankly it was not something to which there was a great deal of access. How the world has changed, where you can have a teenager or a college student, or you can have a young man who can have access to virtually anything.\nAnd I started to say imaginable, but I think that’s a false limit. I think it’s virtually anything imaginable by anyone anywhere. So let’s just be really, really clear, the biblical worldview says no. The Bible says no to\nporneia\n, says no to wrongful sexual expression, wrongful sexual interest. There are those in the secular world who would say, “Look, that’s just some form of denialism, and people who hate the idea of sex and hate the idea of all the rest.” And the fact is we don’t hate anything that God has given us as a good, but we also can’t hate all the rest, which means the entire context and even the explicit commands that go with it. But we do understand, however, that if there is a human drive that is susceptible to this kind of subversion and corruption, sex would be it. And in particular, it’s not equilateral.\nThat is to say that in patterns of sin, this is far more a male pattern than a female pattern of sin. And I’m not saying exclusively because that’s not so. In the digital age the virus is spreading, but I will simply say that in the main it is a male centered problem, but that also leads to other considerations. And so, there are those who are women on these platforms, and I’m just going to speak explicitly to that, and they are basically selling themselves. And this is a commercial platform that says, “You do it. We’ll allow someone to pay you to do it. We’ll create the platform for it.” When you think about a diabolical plan, I mean, this is just a deeply diabolical plan and strategy, and obviously it works. And at the time that Leo Radvinsky died, the report came just yesterday, there were firms trying to buy OnlyFans, and they’re not buying it because they want to shut it down.\nThey’re buying it because if anything they want to expand it, to make it produce even more revenue, to attract even more users. And of course, that also means to widen all the expressions of depravity. I’m going to end it with that today. I think this is just an incredible wake-up call for all of us. We know that sin’s big business, and we know that some of the most explicitly sinful sins revealed as such in Scripture are those that are the most tenacious, and obviously they’re tenacious even in showing up as a consumer product. But as Christians, we have to understand that not only is this a direct rejection of creation order, a direct rejection of God’s plan, a direct disobedience to God’s word, it is a sin which is graphic in both what it represents by action and also by inaction. It is a sin both of omission and a sin of commission, and it also is a dehumanizing of human beings, and it is the exploitation of human beings.\nI guarantee you, behind all of this is not only sin and depravity and lust, there is also manipulation and oppression, and basically a form of at least financial enslavement when it comes to these patterns. So it’s a sad day, Leo Radvinsky died. He died of cancer, we are told, at age 43, a very young death, and this is catapulted the story into the headlines, and at least we as Christians need to understand there’s a lot more to this headline than the secular media would ever understand.\nPart II\nHow Sin Rewrites Stories: The Dark Turn in the Story of Cesar Chavez\nNow next, speaking about the impact and the legacy of sin, we have to look at how sins rewrite stories. And so, in particular I want to point to Cesar Chavez, and of course, so many headlines just in recent days pioneering reporting work done by the New York Times, analysis by the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and just pretty much all across the media landscape.\nA lot of attention to Cesar Chavez, particularly from his coworker, Dolores Huerta, accusing Cesar Chavez, who died in 1993, of rampant sexual manipulation and even sexual assault, and sexual assault not only against Dolores Huerta, who has come forward with this story. And by the way, there’s a lot of corroborating evidence. So, there’s a lot of evidence that what she’s saying is true, and also that Cesar Chavez, who with Huerta had founded the United Farm Workers back in the period of the 1960s and the ’70s, we are talking about a rewriting of history now, a necessary rewriting of history. And Cesar Chavez has been a hero to so many people, especially on the political left, and in particular the Democratic Party, has held up Cesar Chavez. And let me just state that as a Christian, there is no doubt that he was responding to a legitimate claim of oppression in many cases. So again, the Bible’s very clear against oppressing people. \nAt the same time, it was also clear that there was a leftist impulse behind this that also became a part of the movement as well. And so, as Christians we can understand that there are mixed motivations in any number of situations. Cesar Chavez was so celebrated that his name was put on many schools, including public schools, and by some estimates you’re talking about several hundred identifiable public buildings throughout the, especially the West and the Southwest of the United States that have been named for Cesar Chavez, cultural hero. The Democratic Party has been closely identified with support for the movement of Cesar Chavez and support from the United Farm Workers.\nPart III\nThe Unfolding Revelation of History: History Has a Way of Disclosing the Truth About Both Good and Evil\nGeraldo L. Cadava writing at The Atlantic an article entitled The Dethroning of Cesar Chavez, he says this, “One of the most revered figures of not only Latino history but of all of 20th century United States history can no longer be thought of as heroic, but the movement he led still can be.”\nOkay, let me just mention that as Christians we need to understand how some of these stories work. And this is predictable, and this isn’t even a complaint. This is just a fact of how news gets out and how people deal with it. You have an initial report, and the first question when there’s a story of this kind of moral importance, the first question that comes on the part of many is, is it true? And then there’s a second wave of documentation that comes and the public has to make a decision. And by the way, in this case the evidence is evidently so overwhelming no one seems to be arguing at all that this didn’t happen. Then there is yet another wave. And in this you have the article that I decided from The Atlantic, “The Dethroning of Cesar Chavez,” this man’s coming back to say, “You know, we really do need to understand that Cesar Chavez was an evil man, and we need to take whatever actions are morally necessary to remove his name, to create distance, to revise history, et cetera.”\nBut he goes on to say, and that’s the reason I read that sentence, that, “One of the most revered figures, not only of Latino history but also 20th century United States history can no longer be thought of as heroic,” but the next words are important, “but the movement he led still can be.” So, now you have another wave of response to something like this saying, “Okay, but let’s be careful to say that,” this is the argument that’s being made is, “that to Cesar Chavez may no longer be celebrated, but the movement he started can be.” That’s the argument that this article represents. I just want to remind us as Christians that this is the kind of thing that can still shock us, but it can’t fundamentally surprise us.\nAny reader of Scripture has read enough to know of human sinfulness in such a way that we’re just not shocked in this kind of context to find out that sexual manipulation, sexual oppression, sexual violence, sexual opportunism took place. And of course, all of this is just a complex of sexual sin. And I’ll just point out that the secular society has a hard time knowing how to unpack all of this. When in our secular society, the only moral principle many people hold to is consent, then the only way that someone like this can be seen as guilty of sexual misbehavior is if there was no consent. And actually that’s what Dolores Huerta is claiming. She’s claiming that this was assault against her will, against her consent. So, even the secular world can say, “Well, that’s wrong.” The secular world wants to say that there are no fundamental rules when it comes to sexuality so long as they’re consenting adults, but an article like this does imply there’s more to it.\nThe moral verdict behind this does imply that there’s more to it. By the way, there’s another aspect of this, and that is that even on the left there is the belief that children can’t give consent in this situation. So, sexual activity against children, well, that turns out to be a sex crime, and that’s involved in this story too. I just want to remind Christians that we actually do share the moral outrage you see in these articles. We should. We should absolutely be in agreement that Cesar Chavez, if he did these things, should not be celebrated by anyone and has discredited himself and his movement to use, go down the list. And I can tell you, there are going to be an awful lot of renamed schools in coming days or months, however long it takes. This is just the way it works.\nIt also tells you that human beings do have a very strong moral impulse. So let’s just not even think of left, right, let’s just think of moral impulse here. It’s a very strong moral impulse. And so, it is interesting that a lot of the people who would have demanded that Cesar Chavez, that there’d be a national holiday in his honor, they’re now wanting to take his name off of schools and all the rest, and it’s for moral wrongdoing. So, even in a society that wants to reduce the ground in which there’s recognized moral wrongdoing, at least on this, there is the agreement yep, this was profoundly evil. All right, one final thought on this. We as Christians understand that human beings are all sinners, and Christians are those who are sinners saved by grace. And the New Testament does include heroes of the faith, just think of what you find in the book of Hebrews.\nMen and women who courageously and faithfully served the cause of Christ, and even before Christ in the Old Testament you had Old Testament figures. Abraham, most extensively treated there in Hebrews as an exemplar. This doesn’t mean they were without sin, but it does mean that the final verdict on their lives was one of faithfulness by God’s grace and to God’s glory, and it was by God’s work. But we look at this and we recognize history does have a way of unfolding things. It has a way of unfolding things that leads to historical judgment. And just a matter of say a year ago, there would be people who would be wanting to put Cesar Chavez’s name on institutions. Now they want to take them off. And you know as Christians, we need to be the people who say, “There’s really something to this.” However, we also need to tell you, there’s a lot more to this than you think.\nPart IV\nBritish Girls Scouting Group Says No to Trans Participation: Group Rules Biological Males Cannot Be a Part – And the Lack of Controversy From Girl Guides Parents is a Story Unto Itself\nAll right, finally I want to look at a controversy there in the United Kingdom that’s coming to us from Britain. The Telegraph reports, “Girl Guides at war over trans man.” Okay, the Girl Guides are the equivalent to the Girl Scouts here, and they come out of a common movement and of course they began both in Britain and in the United States with those identified as Boy Scouts back in that golden era when everyone knew what a boy was or who a boy was. And now we’re talking about a very different thing. You had girls organizations that were also formed, the Girl Guides, at least roughly analogous to the Girl Scouts in the United States. Now let’s just remind ourselves, the Girl Scouts have been confused for a long time. The Girl Scouts have been largely serving a very liberal revisionist morality to the left of the Boy Scouts.\nBut then again, the Boy Scouts more or less just joined them. And in fact, now it’s just like Scouting USA. In other words, the boy and girl just removed, at least from the Boy Scouts side of the equation. And that’s a very sad thing, because I think these organizations had done a great deal of good, but it is telling that now you have in The Telegraph a headline that the Girl Guides are at war over a trans ban. Okay, so here’s the deal. The Girl Guides, again, just think of them as Girl Scouts in the United Kingdom, they had decided years ago to have basically a pro trans policy. And so, that meant that within the Girl Guides there would be those who were, let’s just state the obvious, physiologically boys. And it just turns out that didn’t work so well. Who would have thought it? That just didn’t work so well.\nAnd so, now they’re adopting a new policy, and this is the trans ban in the headline. We are told that there’s now an organization called Guiders Against Trans Exclusion, that’s G-A-T-E, how clever. We’re told, “The group encourages guide leaders to oppose the policy through activism, including writing to politicians and attending protests.” Okay, I just want to say to Christian parents, there is one absolutely, I just think important paragraph in this article coming from The Telegraph in London, I’m just going to read it to you. “One Brownie leader,” so you hear Brownie again, you recognize that same verbiage in the United States. “One Brownie leader, who asked to remain anonymous, said, ‘It’s an increasingly hostile environment. Communications from Girl Guiding headquarters seem to assume everyone is devastated by the rule change. I haven’t had a single parent ask me about it.'” Okay, sometimes civilization just comes into focus in an unexpected way through just a sentence like that.\nAnd so, we’re told that the headquarters at this organization, they assume that parents and scouts are going to hear this and see it as, hear it as bad news, but the article just goes on to say, “Quite honestly, I haven’t had a single parent ask me about it.” So let’s just say the obvious, the vast, and I mean the vast majority of parents would expect that this so called new policy should and should always have been the policy. It tells you something about the distance between the group and elites in power. So, it turns out that the elites in power who are lamenting that they had to make this decision, they’re in a very different moral position than say local scouting units, including the parents and the girls. They seem to understand this clearly, and see it clearly, and believe that it is clearly the right thing.\nBy the way, one of the big issues behind this was a judgment by the Supreme Court there in the United Kingdom in Britain last April that made very clear that there really are two sexes, male and female, and sort of like what you have in the Trump administration’s very helpful clarification of the fact there are two sexes, two genders, male and female, the female with the large reproductive cell and the male with the small reproductive cell just in case someone out there is unable to connect the dots.\nIt does tell you that these kinds of decisions, these kinds of rulings come with consequences. So the organization, once again, the Girl Guides there, they’ve really had to come into compliance with this ruling. I’ll just point out that as Christians look at it, it’s also compliance with God’s Law. Yes, yes. It’s also compliance with, oh, I don’t know, biology. Let me also point out that this decision by the Girl Guides was not generated from within the organization, basically forced on them by this judicial decision. And as in the United States, we have organizations, schools and others who are having to comply with the executive orders coming from the Trump administration. It’s a reminder to Americans that all of this correction, all of this clarification, all of this sanity will only last so long as those policies last.\nThanks for listening to The Briefing. \nFor more information, go to my website at\nalbertmohler.com\n. You can follow me on X or Twitter by going to\nx.com\/albertmohler\n. For information on the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to\nsbts.edu\n. For information on Boyce College, just go to\nboycecollege.com\n. \nI’ll meet you again tomorrow for The Briefing.\nR. Albert Mohler, Jr.\nI am always glad to hear from readers. Write me using the\ncontact form\n. 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Some of them are easier to talk about than others, and in its own category came the news yesterday that Leo Radvinsky, the owner of the vast website known as OnlyFans, had died at age 43 of cancer. Now, the death of Leo Radvinsky is a story into itself. The emergence of OnlyFans as one of the most significant purveyors of pornography in all of human history, well that’s very much due to Leo Radvinsky’s plan. Radvinsky himself was born in what is now the former Soviet Union in what is now present day Ukraine.\n\nHis family came to the United States, lived in Chicago, he graduated from Northwestern University. He obviously was way ahead of his time in terms of digital technology and interest about how to commercialize the web and how to commercialize web traffic. He went into several different ventures before eventually centering in OnlyFans, which he purchased and basically ran. And through his leadership and during his leadership, that particular pornography site exploded to 377 million users, bringing in more than \\$7.2 billion in revenue in a single year. So again, the numbers, 377 million users. That’s larger than the population of the United States of America. \\$7.2 billion. We’re talking about a massive amount of money.\n\nNow, on the one hand, what this just underlines is the power of a distorted morality, a distortion of human sexuality, a distortion of creation order that is represented by the entire world of pornography.\n\nBut we’re also looking at the fact that this is a story that could only happen at this point in human history. So, let’s just review a certain, say, historical survey of this issue. Pornography has been a problem ever since there were drawings made on caves. In other words, it’s just so much a part of the fallen human imagination that such things can be drawn and people can see them thousands of years later and go, “Okay, I know what that is.” All right. It is a distortion and a manipulation of God’s good gift of making us male and female, and establishing marriage and the sexual union, and the command be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, which was given to the first couple, to Adam and Eve. And what is intended to be a unitive gift to a man and a woman within the covenant of marriage for multiple goods, including the gift of children.\n\nThe distortion of a sinful world leads to the fact that 3.77 million users are officially registered, and that means at least some kind of formal registry often involving financial information with this one platform, a platform that has done at least \\$7.2 billion a year. Leo Radvinsky saw the opportunity to commercialize pornography in such a way that, I’ll just say, a provider of pornography, and in most cases this means one way or another a sex worker, is actually able to use the platform to sell pornographic materials, and to sell it in such a way that persons can go on and well, you can do the math. They can find what they’re looking for, they can pay for it. It doesn’t surprise us, I think, that the distortion of human sexuality in the Fall, and the fact that even as Romans chapter one tells us that people, sinners can give themselves over to sin, when you talk about this kind of industry at this kind of scale, you’re talking about the mass industrial production of pornography.\n\nAnd we’re also talking about it being consumer driven to such an extent that 377 million people are involved in this as registered users. And of course, there are thousands upon thousands of those who are also providing. Now, there’s so many dimensions to this, and maybe we just need to go over for a moment the fact that in every situation pornography is wrong, because pornography is based upon the Greek word *porneia*, which is wrongful desire. Okay, so that really, in terms of scriptural truth, just cuts through to the heart of the matter. Porneia is a corruption of and a distortion of something good. It is wrongful sexual desire. That means that there can be rightful sexual desire within the context of marriage that makes it holy.\n\nBut when you talk about what this particular platform was commercializing, the OnlyFans platform, it was not a celebration of creation order biblical sexuality, it was the commercialization and mass production of its corruption and distortion. Well, all right, let’s talk about another Christian aspect of this, Christian biblical worldview aspect of this. What does it tell us that this is actually a mass industry? It tells us this is a massive problem. It tells us that what Paul describes in Romans chapter one is actually endemic in our society. As a society increasingly, we’re just given over to this kind of corruption and this kind of pornography. And evidence of that comes in the fact that OnlyFans is of interest to some people, not because of pornography at all but because of its financial success. There are people who look at it and say, “Look, this is an interesting financial model.”\n\nThere were capital investment companies looking at purchasing OnlyFans simply because it is such a viable commercial product. If there are \\$7.2 billion on the table this year, well, there are venture capitalists and investors who could say it could be eventually \\$40 billion. The sky is the limit. The other issue for Christians is just to remind ourselves of what is essentially wrong with this. What is the evil at the heart of this? And that’s where we come to understand that what the secular world wants to say about Christians is often that we’re just anti-body and anti-sex, and that’s just profoundly not true. Being just profoundly anti-body and anti-sex would be anti-biblical, anti-creation order. You can’t possibly buy into that kind of denial and then at the same time celebrate God’s holy institution of marriage. You can’t celebrate a young man and a young woman entering into the holy covenant of marriage.\n\nYou can’t celebrate nor fulfill that divine mandate to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. No, we have to see here that there’s big money, big, big money and the corruption of something good, and that’s just a basic Christian worldview issue. This is helpful, if we can just see it, most of the horrible things in the world are intentional subversions and corruptions of something that is good. It is something good turned into something evil by the fact that it’s wrenched out of its biblical context, it is corrupted from its creation order context and is made to be something else. Here’s another big lesson, something else sells. The Christian worldview has to explain why this kind of material is so very popular. How is it that human beings have found their way on a cave wall or on a massive digital platform to find, or to sell, or to consume this kind of material?\n\nWell, it is because we just see here the power of sin and the power of human depravity matched with human ingenuity. Well, that just leads to an ever-expanding problem. And when we talk about an ever-expanding problem, let’s just state the obvious, you had to look at a cave wall to see it. You had to be there to see it. When you’re talking about even, and many of us who are alive now, going back to the time when I was a teenager, a young man, you really didn’t have to worry about this issue in the same way. There was no internet, there was no widespread access even to this material. And thanks be to God for most people in my generation it wasn’t much of a problem, particularly for Christian young men, because frankly it was not something to which there was a great deal of access. How the world has changed, where you can have a teenager or a college student, or you can have a young man who can have access to virtually anything.\n\nAnd I started to say imaginable, but I think that’s a false limit. I think it’s virtually anything imaginable by anyone anywhere. So let’s just be really, really clear, the biblical worldview says no. The Bible says no to *porneia*, says no to wrongful sexual expression, wrongful sexual interest. There are those in the secular world who would say, “Look, that’s just some form of denialism, and people who hate the idea of sex and hate the idea of all the rest.” And the fact is we don’t hate anything that God has given us as a good, but we also can’t hate all the rest, which means the entire context and even the explicit commands that go with it. But we do understand, however, that if there is a human drive that is susceptible to this kind of subversion and corruption, sex would be it. And in particular, it’s not equilateral.\n\nThat is to say that in patterns of sin, this is far more a male pattern than a female pattern of sin. And I’m not saying exclusively because that’s not so. In the digital age the virus is spreading, but I will simply say that in the main it is a male centered problem, but that also leads to other considerations. And so, there are those who are women on these platforms, and I’m just going to speak explicitly to that, and they are basically selling themselves. And this is a commercial platform that says, “You do it. We’ll allow someone to pay you to do it. We’ll create the platform for it.” When you think about a diabolical plan, I mean, this is just a deeply diabolical plan and strategy, and obviously it works. And at the time that Leo Radvinsky died, the report came just yesterday, there were firms trying to buy OnlyFans, and they’re not buying it because they want to shut it down.\n\nThey’re buying it because if anything they want to expand it, to make it produce even more revenue, to attract even more users. And of course, that also means to widen all the expressions of depravity. I’m going to end it with that today. I think this is just an incredible wake-up call for all of us. We know that sin’s big business, and we know that some of the most explicitly sinful sins revealed as such in Scripture are those that are the most tenacious, and obviously they’re tenacious even in showing up as a consumer product. But as Christians, we have to understand that not only is this a direct rejection of creation order, a direct rejection of God’s plan, a direct disobedience to God’s word, it is a sin which is graphic in both what it represents by action and also by inaction. It is a sin both of omission and a sin of commission, and it also is a dehumanizing of human beings, and it is the exploitation of human beings.\n\nI guarantee you, behind all of this is not only sin and depravity and lust, there is also manipulation and oppression, and basically a form of at least financial enslavement when it comes to these patterns. So it’s a sad day, Leo Radvinsky died. He died of cancer, we are told, at age 43, a very young death, and this is catapulted the story into the headlines, and at least we as Christians need to understand there’s a lot more to this headline than the secular media would ever understand.\n\n### [Part II]()\n***\n## How Sin Rewrites Stories: The Dark Turn in the Story of Cesar Chavez\nNow next, speaking about the impact and the legacy of sin, we have to look at how sins rewrite stories. And so, in particular I want to point to Cesar Chavez, and of course, so many headlines just in recent days pioneering reporting work done by the New York Times, analysis by the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and just pretty much all across the media landscape.\n\nA lot of attention to Cesar Chavez, particularly from his coworker, Dolores Huerta, accusing Cesar Chavez, who died in 1993, of rampant sexual manipulation and even sexual assault, and sexual assault not only against Dolores Huerta, who has come forward with this story. And by the way, there’s a lot of corroborating evidence. So, there’s a lot of evidence that what she’s saying is true, and also that Cesar Chavez, who with Huerta had founded the United Farm Workers back in the period of the 1960s and the ’70s, we are talking about a rewriting of history now, a necessary rewriting of history. And Cesar Chavez has been a hero to so many people, especially on the political left, and in particular the Democratic Party, has held up Cesar Chavez. And let me just state that as a Christian, there is no doubt that he was responding to a legitimate claim of oppression in many cases. So again, the Bible’s very clear against oppressing people.\n\nAt the same time, it was also clear that there was a leftist impulse behind this that also became a part of the movement as well. And so, as Christians we can understand that there are mixed motivations in any number of situations. Cesar Chavez was so celebrated that his name was put on many schools, including public schools, and by some estimates you’re talking about several hundred identifiable public buildings throughout the, especially the West and the Southwest of the United States that have been named for Cesar Chavez, cultural hero. The Democratic Party has been closely identified with support for the movement of Cesar Chavez and support from the United Farm Workers.\n\n### [Part III]()\n***\n## The Unfolding Revelation of History: History Has a Way of Disclosing the Truth About Both Good and Evil\nGeraldo L. Cadava writing at The Atlantic an article entitled The Dethroning of Cesar Chavez, he says this, “One of the most revered figures of not only Latino history but of all of 20th century United States history can no longer be thought of as heroic, but the movement he led still can be.”\n\nOkay, let me just mention that as Christians we need to understand how some of these stories work. And this is predictable, and this isn’t even a complaint. This is just a fact of how news gets out and how people deal with it. You have an initial report, and the first question when there’s a story of this kind of moral importance, the first question that comes on the part of many is, is it true? And then there’s a second wave of documentation that comes and the public has to make a decision. And by the way, in this case the evidence is evidently so overwhelming no one seems to be arguing at all that this didn’t happen. Then there is yet another wave. And in this you have the article that I decided from The Atlantic, “The Dethroning of Cesar Chavez,” this man’s coming back to say, “You know, we really do need to understand that Cesar Chavez was an evil man, and we need to take whatever actions are morally necessary to remove his name, to create distance, to revise history, et cetera.”\n\nBut he goes on to say, and that’s the reason I read that sentence, that, “One of the most revered figures, not only of Latino history but also 20th century United States history can no longer be thought of as heroic,” but the next words are important, “but the movement he led still can be.” So, now you have another wave of response to something like this saying, “Okay, but let’s be careful to say that,” this is the argument that’s being made is, “that to Cesar Chavez may no longer be celebrated, but the movement he started can be.” That’s the argument that this article represents. I just want to remind us as Christians that this is the kind of thing that can still shock us, but it can’t fundamentally surprise us.\n\nAny reader of Scripture has read enough to know of human sinfulness in such a way that we’re just not shocked in this kind of context to find out that sexual manipulation, sexual oppression, sexual violence, sexual opportunism took place. And of course, all of this is just a complex of sexual sin. And I’ll just point out that the secular society has a hard time knowing how to unpack all of this. When in our secular society, the only moral principle many people hold to is consent, then the only way that someone like this can be seen as guilty of sexual misbehavior is if there was no consent. And actually that’s what Dolores Huerta is claiming. She’s claiming that this was assault against her will, against her consent. So, even the secular world can say, “Well, that’s wrong.” The secular world wants to say that there are no fundamental rules when it comes to sexuality so long as they’re consenting adults, but an article like this does imply there’s more to it.\n\nThe moral verdict behind this does imply that there’s more to it. By the way, there’s another aspect of this, and that is that even on the left there is the belief that children can’t give consent in this situation. So, sexual activity against children, well, that turns out to be a sex crime, and that’s involved in this story too. I just want to remind Christians that we actually do share the moral outrage you see in these articles. We should. We should absolutely be in agreement that Cesar Chavez, if he did these things, should not be celebrated by anyone and has discredited himself and his movement to use, go down the list. And I can tell you, there are going to be an awful lot of renamed schools in coming days or months, however long it takes. This is just the way it works.\n\nIt also tells you that human beings do have a very strong moral impulse. So let’s just not even think of left, right, let’s just think of moral impulse here. It’s a very strong moral impulse. And so, it is interesting that a lot of the people who would have demanded that Cesar Chavez, that there’d be a national holiday in his honor, they’re now wanting to take his name off of schools and all the rest, and it’s for moral wrongdoing. So, even in a society that wants to reduce the ground in which there’s recognized moral wrongdoing, at least on this, there is the agreement yep, this was profoundly evil. All right, one final thought on this. We as Christians understand that human beings are all sinners, and Christians are those who are sinners saved by grace. And the New Testament does include heroes of the faith, just think of what you find in the book of Hebrews.\n\nMen and women who courageously and faithfully served the cause of Christ, and even before Christ in the Old Testament you had Old Testament figures. Abraham, most extensively treated there in Hebrews as an exemplar. This doesn’t mean they were without sin, but it does mean that the final verdict on their lives was one of faithfulness by God’s grace and to God’s glory, and it was by God’s work. But we look at this and we recognize history does have a way of unfolding things. It has a way of unfolding things that leads to historical judgment. And just a matter of say a year ago, there would be people who would be wanting to put Cesar Chavez’s name on institutions. Now they want to take them off. And you know as Christians, we need to be the people who say, “There’s really something to this.” However, we also need to tell you, there’s a lot more to this than you think.\n\n### [Part IV]()\n***\n## British Girls Scouting Group Says No to Trans Participation: Group Rules Biological Males Cannot Be a Part – And the Lack of Controversy From Girl Guides Parents is a Story Unto Itself\nAll right, finally I want to look at a controversy there in the United Kingdom that’s coming to us from Britain. The Telegraph reports, “Girl Guides at war over trans man.” Okay, the Girl Guides are the equivalent to the Girl Scouts here, and they come out of a common movement and of course they began both in Britain and in the United States with those identified as Boy Scouts back in that golden era when everyone knew what a boy was or who a boy was. And now we’re talking about a very different thing. You had girls organizations that were also formed, the Girl Guides, at least roughly analogous to the Girl Scouts in the United States. Now let’s just remind ourselves, the Girl Scouts have been confused for a long time. The Girl Scouts have been largely serving a very liberal revisionist morality to the left of the Boy Scouts.\n\nBut then again, the Boy Scouts more or less just joined them. And in fact, now it’s just like Scouting USA. In other words, the boy and girl just removed, at least from the Boy Scouts side of the equation. And that’s a very sad thing, because I think these organizations had done a great deal of good, but it is telling that now you have in The Telegraph a headline that the Girl Guides are at war over a trans ban. Okay, so here’s the deal. The Girl Guides, again, just think of them as Girl Scouts in the United Kingdom, they had decided years ago to have basically a pro trans policy. And so, that meant that within the Girl Guides there would be those who were, let’s just state the obvious, physiologically boys. And it just turns out that didn’t work so well. Who would have thought it? That just didn’t work so well.\n\nAnd so, now they’re adopting a new policy, and this is the trans ban in the headline. We are told that there’s now an organization called Guiders Against Trans Exclusion, that’s G-A-T-E, how clever. We’re told, “The group encourages guide leaders to oppose the policy through activism, including writing to politicians and attending protests.” Okay, I just want to say to Christian parents, there is one absolutely, I just think important paragraph in this article coming from The Telegraph in London, I’m just going to read it to you. “One Brownie leader,” so you hear Brownie again, you recognize that same verbiage in the United States. “One Brownie leader, who asked to remain anonymous, said, ‘It’s an increasingly hostile environment. Communications from Girl Guiding headquarters seem to assume everyone is devastated by the rule change. I haven’t had a single parent ask me about it.'” Okay, sometimes civilization just comes into focus in an unexpected way through just a sentence like that.\n\nAnd so, we’re told that the headquarters at this organization, they assume that parents and scouts are going to hear this and see it as, hear it as bad news, but the article just goes on to say, “Quite honestly, I haven’t had a single parent ask me about it.” So let’s just say the obvious, the vast, and I mean the vast majority of parents would expect that this so called new policy should and should always have been the policy. It tells you something about the distance between the group and elites in power. So, it turns out that the elites in power who are lamenting that they had to make this decision, they’re in a very different moral position than say local scouting units, including the parents and the girls. They seem to understand this clearly, and see it clearly, and believe that it is clearly the right thing.\n\nBy the way, one of the big issues behind this was a judgment by the Supreme Court there in the United Kingdom in Britain last April that made very clear that there really are two sexes, male and female, and sort of like what you have in the Trump administration’s very helpful clarification of the fact there are two sexes, two genders, male and female, the female with the large reproductive cell and the male with the small reproductive cell just in case someone out there is unable to connect the dots.\n\nIt does tell you that these kinds of decisions, these kinds of rulings come with consequences. So the organization, once again, the Girl Guides there, they’ve really had to come into compliance with this ruling. I’ll just point out that as Christians look at it, it’s also compliance with God’s Law. Yes, yes. It’s also compliance with, oh, I don’t know, biology. Let me also point out that this decision by the Girl Guides was not generated from within the organization, basically forced on them by this judicial decision. And as in the United States, we have organizations, schools and others who are having to comply with the executive orders coming from the Trump administration. It’s a reminder to Americans that all of this correction, all of this clarification, all of this sanity will only last so long as those policies last.\n\nThanks for listening to The Briefing.\n\nFor more information, go to my website at [albertmohler.com](http:\/\/albertmohler.com\/). You can follow me on X or Twitter by going to [x.com\/albertmohler](http:\/\/x.com\/albertmohler). For information on the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to [sbts.edu](http:\/\/sbts.edu\/). 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All rights reserved.","attrs_readable_markdown":"It’s Tuesday, March 24th, 2026.\n\nI’m Albert Mohler, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.\n\n### [Part I]()\n***\n## The Death of the OnlyFans Owner: Leonid Radvinsky’s Death Brings the Evil Reality of the Pornography Industry into the Headlines\nThere’s so many big news stories around us, so many happenings in the culture, so many issues thrown at us that Christians need to think through and need to understand in terms of a Christian worldview. Some of them are easier to talk about than others, and in its own category came the news yesterday that Leo Radvinsky, the owner of the vast website known as OnlyFans, had died at age 43 of cancer. Now, the death of Leo Radvinsky is a story into itself. The emergence of OnlyFans as one of the most significant purveyors of pornography in all of human history, well that’s very much due to Leo Radvinsky’s plan. Radvinsky himself was born in what is now the former Soviet Union in what is now present day Ukraine.\n\nHis family came to the United States, lived in Chicago, he graduated from Northwestern University. He obviously was way ahead of his time in terms of digital technology and interest about how to commercialize the web and how to commercialize web traffic. He went into several different ventures before eventually centering in OnlyFans, which he purchased and basically ran. And through his leadership and during his leadership, that particular pornography site exploded to 377 million users, bringing in more than \\$7.2 billion in revenue in a single year. So again, the numbers, 377 million users. That’s larger than the population of the United States of America. \\$7.2 billion. We’re talking about a massive amount of money.\n\nNow, on the one hand, what this just underlines is the power of a distorted morality, a distortion of human sexuality, a distortion of creation order that is represented by the entire world of pornography.\n\nBut we’re also looking at the fact that this is a story that could only happen at this point in human history. So, let’s just review a certain, say, historical survey of this issue. Pornography has been a problem ever since there were drawings made on caves. In other words, it’s just so much a part of the fallen human imagination that such things can be drawn and people can see them thousands of years later and go, “Okay, I know what that is.” All right. It is a distortion and a manipulation of God’s good gift of making us male and female, and establishing marriage and the sexual union, and the command be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, which was given to the first couple, to Adam and Eve. And what is intended to be a unitive gift to a man and a woman within the covenant of marriage for multiple goods, including the gift of children.\n\nThe distortion of a sinful world leads to the fact that 3.77 million users are officially registered, and that means at least some kind of formal registry often involving financial information with this one platform, a platform that has done at least \\$7.2 billion a year. Leo Radvinsky saw the opportunity to commercialize pornography in such a way that, I’ll just say, a provider of pornography, and in most cases this means one way or another a sex worker, is actually able to use the platform to sell pornographic materials, and to sell it in such a way that persons can go on and well, you can do the math. They can find what they’re looking for, they can pay for it. It doesn’t surprise us, I think, that the distortion of human sexuality in the Fall, and the fact that even as Romans chapter one tells us that people, sinners can give themselves over to sin, when you talk about this kind of industry at this kind of scale, you’re talking about the mass industrial production of pornography.\n\nAnd we’re also talking about it being consumer driven to such an extent that 377 million people are involved in this as registered users. And of course, there are thousands upon thousands of those who are also providing. Now, there’s so many dimensions to this, and maybe we just need to go over for a moment the fact that in every situation pornography is wrong, because pornography is based upon the Greek word *porneia*, which is wrongful desire. Okay, so that really, in terms of scriptural truth, just cuts through to the heart of the matter. Porneia is a corruption of and a distortion of something good. It is wrongful sexual desire. That means that there can be rightful sexual desire within the context of marriage that makes it holy.\n\nBut when you talk about what this particular platform was commercializing, the OnlyFans platform, it was not a celebration of creation order biblical sexuality, it was the commercialization and mass production of its corruption and distortion. Well, all right, let’s talk about another Christian aspect of this, Christian biblical worldview aspect of this. What does it tell us that this is actually a mass industry? It tells us this is a massive problem. It tells us that what Paul describes in Romans chapter one is actually endemic in our society. As a society increasingly, we’re just given over to this kind of corruption and this kind of pornography. And evidence of that comes in the fact that OnlyFans is of interest to some people, not because of pornography at all but because of its financial success. There are people who look at it and say, “Look, this is an interesting financial model.”\n\nThere were capital investment companies looking at purchasing OnlyFans simply because it is such a viable commercial product. If there are \\$7.2 billion on the table this year, well, there are venture capitalists and investors who could say it could be eventually \\$40 billion. The sky is the limit. The other issue for Christians is just to remind ourselves of what is essentially wrong with this. What is the evil at the heart of this? And that’s where we come to understand that what the secular world wants to say about Christians is often that we’re just anti-body and anti-sex, and that’s just profoundly not true. Being just profoundly anti-body and anti-sex would be anti-biblical, anti-creation order. You can’t possibly buy into that kind of denial and then at the same time celebrate God’s holy institution of marriage. You can’t celebrate a young man and a young woman entering into the holy covenant of marriage.\n\nYou can’t celebrate nor fulfill that divine mandate to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. No, we have to see here that there’s big money, big, big money and the corruption of something good, and that’s just a basic Christian worldview issue. This is helpful, if we can just see it, most of the horrible things in the world are intentional subversions and corruptions of something that is good. It is something good turned into something evil by the fact that it’s wrenched out of its biblical context, it is corrupted from its creation order context and is made to be something else. Here’s another big lesson, something else sells. The Christian worldview has to explain why this kind of material is so very popular. How is it that human beings have found their way on a cave wall or on a massive digital platform to find, or to sell, or to consume this kind of material?\n\nWell, it is because we just see here the power of sin and the power of human depravity matched with human ingenuity. Well, that just leads to an ever-expanding problem. And when we talk about an ever-expanding problem, let’s just state the obvious, you had to look at a cave wall to see it. You had to be there to see it. When you’re talking about even, and many of us who are alive now, going back to the time when I was a teenager, a young man, you really didn’t have to worry about this issue in the same way. There was no internet, there was no widespread access even to this material. And thanks be to God for most people in my generation it wasn’t much of a problem, particularly for Christian young men, because frankly it was not something to which there was a great deal of access. How the world has changed, where you can have a teenager or a college student, or you can have a young man who can have access to virtually anything.\n\nAnd I started to say imaginable, but I think that’s a false limit. I think it’s virtually anything imaginable by anyone anywhere. So let’s just be really, really clear, the biblical worldview says no. The Bible says no to *porneia*, says no to wrongful sexual expression, wrongful sexual interest. There are those in the secular world who would say, “Look, that’s just some form of denialism, and people who hate the idea of sex and hate the idea of all the rest.” And the fact is we don’t hate anything that God has given us as a good, but we also can’t hate all the rest, which means the entire context and even the explicit commands that go with it. But we do understand, however, that if there is a human drive that is susceptible to this kind of subversion and corruption, sex would be it. And in particular, it’s not equilateral.\n\nThat is to say that in patterns of sin, this is far more a male pattern than a female pattern of sin. And I’m not saying exclusively because that’s not so. In the digital age the virus is spreading, but I will simply say that in the main it is a male centered problem, but that also leads to other considerations. And so, there are those who are women on these platforms, and I’m just going to speak explicitly to that, and they are basically selling themselves. And this is a commercial platform that says, “You do it. We’ll allow someone to pay you to do it. We’ll create the platform for it.” When you think about a diabolical plan, I mean, this is just a deeply diabolical plan and strategy, and obviously it works. And at the time that Leo Radvinsky died, the report came just yesterday, there were firms trying to buy OnlyFans, and they’re not buying it because they want to shut it down.\n\nThey’re buying it because if anything they want to expand it, to make it produce even more revenue, to attract even more users. And of course, that also means to widen all the expressions of depravity. I’m going to end it with that today. I think this is just an incredible wake-up call for all of us. We know that sin’s big business, and we know that some of the most explicitly sinful sins revealed as such in Scripture are those that are the most tenacious, and obviously they’re tenacious even in showing up as a consumer product. But as Christians, we have to understand that not only is this a direct rejection of creation order, a direct rejection of God’s plan, a direct disobedience to God’s word, it is a sin which is graphic in both what it represents by action and also by inaction. It is a sin both of omission and a sin of commission, and it also is a dehumanizing of human beings, and it is the exploitation of human beings.\n\nI guarantee you, behind all of this is not only sin and depravity and lust, there is also manipulation and oppression, and basically a form of at least financial enslavement when it comes to these patterns. So it’s a sad day, Leo Radvinsky died. He died of cancer, we are told, at age 43, a very young death, and this is catapulted the story into the headlines, and at least we as Christians need to understand there’s a lot more to this headline than the secular media would ever understand.\n\n### [Part II]()\n***\n## How Sin Rewrites Stories: The Dark Turn in the Story of Cesar Chavez\nNow next, speaking about the impact and the legacy of sin, we have to look at how sins rewrite stories. And so, in particular I want to point to Cesar Chavez, and of course, so many headlines just in recent days pioneering reporting work done by the New York Times, analysis by the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and just pretty much all across the media landscape.\n\nA lot of attention to Cesar Chavez, particularly from his coworker, Dolores Huerta, accusing Cesar Chavez, who died in 1993, of rampant sexual manipulation and even sexual assault, and sexual assault not only against Dolores Huerta, who has come forward with this story. And by the way, there’s a lot of corroborating evidence. So, there’s a lot of evidence that what she’s saying is true, and also that Cesar Chavez, who with Huerta had founded the United Farm Workers back in the period of the 1960s and the ’70s, we are talking about a rewriting of history now, a necessary rewriting of history. And Cesar Chavez has been a hero to so many people, especially on the political left, and in particular the Democratic Party, has held up Cesar Chavez. And let me just state that as a Christian, there is no doubt that he was responding to a legitimate claim of oppression in many cases. So again, the Bible’s very clear against oppressing people.\n\nAt the same time, it was also clear that there was a leftist impulse behind this that also became a part of the movement as well. And so, as Christians we can understand that there are mixed motivations in any number of situations. Cesar Chavez was so celebrated that his name was put on many schools, including public schools, and by some estimates you’re talking about several hundred identifiable public buildings throughout the, especially the West and the Southwest of the United States that have been named for Cesar Chavez, cultural hero. The Democratic Party has been closely identified with support for the movement of Cesar Chavez and support from the United Farm Workers.\n\n### [Part III]()\n***\n## The Unfolding Revelation of History: History Has a Way of Disclosing the Truth About Both Good and Evil\nGeraldo L. Cadava writing at The Atlantic an article entitled The Dethroning of Cesar Chavez, he says this, “One of the most revered figures of not only Latino history but of all of 20th century United States history can no longer be thought of as heroic, but the movement he led still can be.”\n\nOkay, let me just mention that as Christians we need to understand how some of these stories work. And this is predictable, and this isn’t even a complaint. This is just a fact of how news gets out and how people deal with it. You have an initial report, and the first question when there’s a story of this kind of moral importance, the first question that comes on the part of many is, is it true? And then there’s a second wave of documentation that comes and the public has to make a decision. And by the way, in this case the evidence is evidently so overwhelming no one seems to be arguing at all that this didn’t happen. Then there is yet another wave. And in this you have the article that I decided from The Atlantic, “The Dethroning of Cesar Chavez,” this man’s coming back to say, “You know, we really do need to understand that Cesar Chavez was an evil man, and we need to take whatever actions are morally necessary to remove his name, to create distance, to revise history, et cetera.”\n\nBut he goes on to say, and that’s the reason I read that sentence, that, “One of the most revered figures, not only of Latino history but also 20th century United States history can no longer be thought of as heroic,” but the next words are important, “but the movement he led still can be.” So, now you have another wave of response to something like this saying, “Okay, but let’s be careful to say that,” this is the argument that’s being made is, “that to Cesar Chavez may no longer be celebrated, but the movement he started can be.” That’s the argument that this article represents. I just want to remind us as Christians that this is the kind of thing that can still shock us, but it can’t fundamentally surprise us.\n\nAny reader of Scripture has read enough to know of human sinfulness in such a way that we’re just not shocked in this kind of context to find out that sexual manipulation, sexual oppression, sexual violence, sexual opportunism took place. And of course, all of this is just a complex of sexual sin. And I’ll just point out that the secular society has a hard time knowing how to unpack all of this. When in our secular society, the only moral principle many people hold to is consent, then the only way that someone like this can be seen as guilty of sexual misbehavior is if there was no consent. And actually that’s what Dolores Huerta is claiming. She’s claiming that this was assault against her will, against her consent. So, even the secular world can say, “Well, that’s wrong.” The secular world wants to say that there are no fundamental rules when it comes to sexuality so long as they’re consenting adults, but an article like this does imply there’s more to it.\n\nThe moral verdict behind this does imply that there’s more to it. By the way, there’s another aspect of this, and that is that even on the left there is the belief that children can’t give consent in this situation. So, sexual activity against children, well, that turns out to be a sex crime, and that’s involved in this story too. I just want to remind Christians that we actually do share the moral outrage you see in these articles. We should. We should absolutely be in agreement that Cesar Chavez, if he did these things, should not be celebrated by anyone and has discredited himself and his movement to use, go down the list. And I can tell you, there are going to be an awful lot of renamed schools in coming days or months, however long it takes. This is just the way it works.\n\nIt also tells you that human beings do have a very strong moral impulse. So let’s just not even think of left, right, let’s just think of moral impulse here. It’s a very strong moral impulse. And so, it is interesting that a lot of the people who would have demanded that Cesar Chavez, that there’d be a national holiday in his honor, they’re now wanting to take his name off of schools and all the rest, and it’s for moral wrongdoing. So, even in a society that wants to reduce the ground in which there’s recognized moral wrongdoing, at least on this, there is the agreement yep, this was profoundly evil. All right, one final thought on this. We as Christians understand that human beings are all sinners, and Christians are those who are sinners saved by grace. And the New Testament does include heroes of the faith, just think of what you find in the book of Hebrews.\n\nMen and women who courageously and faithfully served the cause of Christ, and even before Christ in the Old Testament you had Old Testament figures. Abraham, most extensively treated there in Hebrews as an exemplar. This doesn’t mean they were without sin, but it does mean that the final verdict on their lives was one of faithfulness by God’s grace and to God’s glory, and it was by God’s work. But we look at this and we recognize history does have a way of unfolding things. It has a way of unfolding things that leads to historical judgment. And just a matter of say a year ago, there would be people who would be wanting to put Cesar Chavez’s name on institutions. Now they want to take them off. And you know as Christians, we need to be the people who say, “There’s really something to this.” However, we also need to tell you, there’s a lot more to this than you think.\n\n### [Part IV]()\n***\n## British Girls Scouting Group Says No to Trans Participation: Group Rules Biological Males Cannot Be a Part – And the Lack of Controversy From Girl Guides Parents is a Story Unto Itself\nAll right, finally I want to look at a controversy there in the United Kingdom that’s coming to us from Britain. The Telegraph reports, “Girl Guides at war over trans man.” Okay, the Girl Guides are the equivalent to the Girl Scouts here, and they come out of a common movement and of course they began both in Britain and in the United States with those identified as Boy Scouts back in that golden era when everyone knew what a boy was or who a boy was. And now we’re talking about a very different thing. You had girls organizations that were also formed, the Girl Guides, at least roughly analogous to the Girl Scouts in the United States. Now let’s just remind ourselves, the Girl Scouts have been confused for a long time. The Girl Scouts have been largely serving a very liberal revisionist morality to the left of the Boy Scouts.\n\nBut then again, the Boy Scouts more or less just joined them. And in fact, now it’s just like Scouting USA. In other words, the boy and girl just removed, at least from the Boy Scouts side of the equation. And that’s a very sad thing, because I think these organizations had done a great deal of good, but it is telling that now you have in The Telegraph a headline that the Girl Guides are at war over a trans ban. Okay, so here’s the deal. The Girl Guides, again, just think of them as Girl Scouts in the United Kingdom, they had decided years ago to have basically a pro trans policy. And so, that meant that within the Girl Guides there would be those who were, let’s just state the obvious, physiologically boys. And it just turns out that didn’t work so well. Who would have thought it? That just didn’t work so well.\n\nAnd so, now they’re adopting a new policy, and this is the trans ban in the headline. We are told that there’s now an organization called Guiders Against Trans Exclusion, that’s G-A-T-E, how clever. We’re told, “The group encourages guide leaders to oppose the policy through activism, including writing to politicians and attending protests.” Okay, I just want to say to Christian parents, there is one absolutely, I just think important paragraph in this article coming from The Telegraph in London, I’m just going to read it to you. “One Brownie leader,” so you hear Brownie again, you recognize that same verbiage in the United States. “One Brownie leader, who asked to remain anonymous, said, ‘It’s an increasingly hostile environment. Communications from Girl Guiding headquarters seem to assume everyone is devastated by the rule change. I haven’t had a single parent ask me about it.'” Okay, sometimes civilization just comes into focus in an unexpected way through just a sentence like that.\n\nAnd so, we’re told that the headquarters at this organization, they assume that parents and scouts are going to hear this and see it as, hear it as bad news, but the article just goes on to say, “Quite honestly, I haven’t had a single parent ask me about it.” So let’s just say the obvious, the vast, and I mean the vast majority of parents would expect that this so called new policy should and should always have been the policy. It tells you something about the distance between the group and elites in power. So, it turns out that the elites in power who are lamenting that they had to make this decision, they’re in a very different moral position than say local scouting units, including the parents and the girls. They seem to understand this clearly, and see it clearly, and believe that it is clearly the right thing.\n\nBy the way, one of the big issues behind this was a judgment by the Supreme Court there in the United Kingdom in Britain last April that made very clear that there really are two sexes, male and female, and sort of like what you have in the Trump administration’s very helpful clarification of the fact there are two sexes, two genders, male and female, the female with the large reproductive cell and the male with the small reproductive cell just in case someone out there is unable to connect the dots.\n\nIt does tell you that these kinds of decisions, these kinds of rulings come with consequences. So the organization, once again, the Girl Guides there, they’ve really had to come into compliance with this ruling. I’ll just point out that as Christians look at it, it’s also compliance with God’s Law. Yes, yes. It’s also compliance with, oh, I don’t know, biology. 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Boilerpipe Text	It’s Tuesday, March 24th, 2026. I’m Albert Mohler, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I The Death of the OnlyFans Owner: Leonid Radvinsky’s Death Brings the Evil Reality of the Pornography Industry into the Headlines There’s so many big news stories around us, so many happenings in the culture, so many issues thrown at us that Christians need to think through and need to understand in terms of a Christian worldview. Some of them are easier to talk about than others, and in its own category came the news yesterday that Leo Radvinsky, the owner of the vast website known as OnlyFans, had died at age 43 of cancer. Now, the death of Leo Radvinsky is a story into itself. The emergence of OnlyFans as one of the most significant purveyors of pornography in all of human history, well that’s very much due to Leo Radvinsky’s plan. Radvinsky himself was born in what is now the former Soviet Union in what is now present day Ukraine. His family came to the United States, lived in Chicago, he graduated from Northwestern University. He obviously was way ahead of his time in terms of digital technology and interest about how to commercialize the web and how to commercialize web traffic. He went into several different ventures before eventually centering in OnlyFans, which he purchased and basically ran. And through his leadership and during his leadership, that particular pornography site exploded to 377 million users, bringing in more than $7.2 billion in revenue in a single year. So again, the numbers, 377 million users. That’s larger than the population of the United States of America. $7.2 billion. We’re talking about a massive amount of money. Now, on the one hand, what this just underlines is the power of a distorted morality, a distortion of human sexuality, a distortion of creation order that is represented by the entire world of pornography. But we’re also looking at the fact that this is a story that could only happen at this point in human history. So, let’s just review a certain, say, historical survey of this issue. Pornography has been a problem ever since there were drawings made on caves. In other words, it’s just so much a part of the fallen human imagination that such things can be drawn and people can see them thousands of years later and go, “Okay, I know what that is.” All right. It is a distortion and a manipulation of God’s good gift of making us male and female, and establishing marriage and the sexual union, and the command be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, which was given to the first couple, to Adam and Eve. And what is intended to be a unitive gift to a man and a woman within the covenant of marriage for multiple goods, including the gift of children. The distortion of a sinful world leads to the fact that 3.77 million users are officially registered, and that means at least some kind of formal registry often involving financial information with this one platform, a platform that has done at least $7.2 billion a year. Leo Radvinsky saw the opportunity to commercialize pornography in such a way that, I’ll just say, a provider of pornography, and in most cases this means one way or another a sex worker, is actually able to use the platform to sell pornographic materials, and to sell it in such a way that persons can go on and well, you can do the math. They can find what they’re looking for, they can pay for it. It doesn’t surprise us, I think, that the distortion of human sexuality in the Fall, and the fact that even as Romans chapter one tells us that people, sinners can give themselves over to sin, when you talk about this kind of industry at this kind of scale, you’re talking about the mass industrial production of pornography. And we’re also talking about it being consumer driven to such an extent that 377 million people are involved in this as registered users. And of course, there are thousands upon thousands of those who are also providing. Now, there’s so many dimensions to this, and maybe we just need to go over for a moment the fact that in every situation pornography is wrong, because pornography is based upon the Greek word porneia , which is wrongful desire. Okay, so that really, in terms of scriptural truth, just cuts through to the heart of the matter. Porneia is a corruption of and a distortion of something good. It is wrongful sexual desire. That means that there can be rightful sexual desire within the context of marriage that makes it holy. But when you talk about what this particular platform was commercializing, the OnlyFans platform, it was not a celebration of creation order biblical sexuality, it was the commercialization and mass production of its corruption and distortion. Well, all right, let’s talk about another Christian aspect of this, Christian biblical worldview aspect of this. What does it tell us that this is actually a mass industry? It tells us this is a massive problem. It tells us that what Paul describes in Romans chapter one is actually endemic in our society. As a society increasingly, we’re just given over to this kind of corruption and this kind of pornography. And evidence of that comes in the fact that OnlyFans is of interest to some people, not because of pornography at all but because of its financial success. There are people who look at it and say, “Look, this is an interesting financial model.” There were capital investment companies looking at purchasing OnlyFans simply because it is such a viable commercial product. If there are $7.2 billion on the table this year, well, there are venture capitalists and investors who could say it could be eventually $40 billion. The sky is the limit. The other issue for Christians is just to remind ourselves of what is essentially wrong with this. What is the evil at the heart of this? And that’s where we come to understand that what the secular world wants to say about Christians is often that we’re just anti-body and anti-sex, and that’s just profoundly not true. Being just profoundly anti-body and anti-sex would be anti-biblical, anti-creation order. You can’t possibly buy into that kind of denial and then at the same time celebrate God’s holy institution of marriage. You can’t celebrate a young man and a young woman entering into the holy covenant of marriage. You can’t celebrate nor fulfill that divine mandate to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. No, we have to see here that there’s big money, big, big money and the corruption of something good, and that’s just a basic Christian worldview issue. This is helpful, if we can just see it, most of the horrible things in the world are intentional subversions and corruptions of something that is good. It is something good turned into something evil by the fact that it’s wrenched out of its biblical context, it is corrupted from its creation order context and is made to be something else. Here’s another big lesson, something else sells. The Christian worldview has to explain why this kind of material is so very popular. How is it that human beings have found their way on a cave wall or on a massive digital platform to find, or to sell, or to consume this kind of material? Well, it is because we just see here the power of sin and the power of human depravity matched with human ingenuity. Well, that just leads to an ever-expanding problem. And when we talk about an ever-expanding problem, let’s just state the obvious, you had to look at a cave wall to see it. You had to be there to see it. When you’re talking about even, and many of us who are alive now, going back to the time when I was a teenager, a young man, you really didn’t have to worry about this issue in the same way. There was no internet, there was no widespread access even to this material. And thanks be to God for most people in my generation it wasn’t much of a problem, particularly for Christian young men, because frankly it was not something to which there was a great deal of access. How the world has changed, where you can have a teenager or a college student, or you can have a young man who can have access to virtually anything. And I started to say imaginable, but I think that’s a false limit. I think it’s virtually anything imaginable by anyone anywhere. So let’s just be really, really clear, the biblical worldview says no. The Bible says no to porneia , says no to wrongful sexual expression, wrongful sexual interest. There are those in the secular world who would say, “Look, that’s just some form of denialism, and people who hate the idea of sex and hate the idea of all the rest.” And the fact is we don’t hate anything that God has given us as a good, but we also can’t hate all the rest, which means the entire context and even the explicit commands that go with it. But we do understand, however, that if there is a human drive that is susceptible to this kind of subversion and corruption, sex would be it. And in particular, it’s not equilateral. That is to say that in patterns of sin, this is far more a male pattern than a female pattern of sin. And I’m not saying exclusively because that’s not so. In the digital age the virus is spreading, but I will simply say that in the main it is a male centered problem, but that also leads to other considerations. And so, there are those who are women on these platforms, and I’m just going to speak explicitly to that, and they are basically selling themselves. And this is a commercial platform that says, “You do it. We’ll allow someone to pay you to do it. We’ll create the platform for it.” When you think about a diabolical plan, I mean, this is just a deeply diabolical plan and strategy, and obviously it works. And at the time that Leo Radvinsky died, the report came just yesterday, there were firms trying to buy OnlyFans, and they’re not buying it because they want to shut it down. They’re buying it because if anything they want to expand it, to make it produce even more revenue, to attract even more users. And of course, that also means to widen all the expressions of depravity. I’m going to end it with that today. I think this is just an incredible wake-up call for all of us. We know that sin’s big business, and we know that some of the most explicitly sinful sins revealed as such in Scripture are those that are the most tenacious, and obviously they’re tenacious even in showing up as a consumer product. But as Christians, we have to understand that not only is this a direct rejection of creation order, a direct rejection of God’s plan, a direct disobedience to God’s word, it is a sin which is graphic in both what it represents by action and also by inaction. It is a sin both of omission and a sin of commission, and it also is a dehumanizing of human beings, and it is the exploitation of human beings. I guarantee you, behind all of this is not only sin and depravity and lust, there is also manipulation and oppression, and basically a form of at least financial enslavement when it comes to these patterns. So it’s a sad day, Leo Radvinsky died. He died of cancer, we are told, at age 43, a very young death, and this is catapulted the story into the headlines, and at least we as Christians need to understand there’s a lot more to this headline than the secular media would ever understand. Part II How Sin Rewrites Stories: The Dark Turn in the Story of Cesar Chavez Now next, speaking about the impact and the legacy of sin, we have to look at how sins rewrite stories. And so, in particular I want to point to Cesar Chavez, and of course, so many headlines just in recent days pioneering reporting work done by the New York Times, analysis by the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and just pretty much all across the media landscape. A lot of attention to Cesar Chavez, particularly from his coworker, Dolores Huerta, accusing Cesar Chavez, who died in 1993, of rampant sexual manipulation and even sexual assault, and sexual assault not only against Dolores Huerta, who has come forward with this story. And by the way, there’s a lot of corroborating evidence. So, there’s a lot of evidence that what she’s saying is true, and also that Cesar Chavez, who with Huerta had founded the United Farm Workers back in the period of the 1960s and the ’70s, we are talking about a rewriting of history now, a necessary rewriting of history. And Cesar Chavez has been a hero to so many people, especially on the political left, and in particular the Democratic Party, has held up Cesar Chavez. And let me just state that as a Christian, there is no doubt that he was responding to a legitimate claim of oppression in many cases. So again, the Bible’s very clear against oppressing people. At the same time, it was also clear that there was a leftist impulse behind this that also became a part of the movement as well. And so, as Christians we can understand that there are mixed motivations in any number of situations. Cesar Chavez was so celebrated that his name was put on many schools, including public schools, and by some estimates you’re talking about several hundred identifiable public buildings throughout the, especially the West and the Southwest of the United States that have been named for Cesar Chavez, cultural hero. The Democratic Party has been closely identified with support for the movement of Cesar Chavez and support from the United Farm Workers. Part III The Unfolding Revelation of History: History Has a Way of Disclosing the Truth About Both Good and Evil Geraldo L. Cadava writing at The Atlantic an article entitled The Dethroning of Cesar Chavez, he says this, “One of the most revered figures of not only Latino history but of all of 20th century United States history can no longer be thought of as heroic, but the movement he led still can be.” Okay, let me just mention that as Christians we need to understand how some of these stories work. And this is predictable, and this isn’t even a complaint. This is just a fact of how news gets out and how people deal with it. You have an initial report, and the first question when there’s a story of this kind of moral importance, the first question that comes on the part of many is, is it true? And then there’s a second wave of documentation that comes and the public has to make a decision. And by the way, in this case the evidence is evidently so overwhelming no one seems to be arguing at all that this didn’t happen. Then there is yet another wave. And in this you have the article that I decided from The Atlantic, “The Dethroning of Cesar Chavez,” this man’s coming back to say, “You know, we really do need to understand that Cesar Chavez was an evil man, and we need to take whatever actions are morally necessary to remove his name, to create distance, to revise history, et cetera.” But he goes on to say, and that’s the reason I read that sentence, that, “One of the most revered figures, not only of Latino history but also 20th century United States history can no longer be thought of as heroic,” but the next words are important, “but the movement he led still can be.” So, now you have another wave of response to something like this saying, “Okay, but let’s be careful to say that,” this is the argument that’s being made is, “that to Cesar Chavez may no longer be celebrated, but the movement he started can be.” That’s the argument that this article represents. I just want to remind us as Christians that this is the kind of thing that can still shock us, but it can’t fundamentally surprise us. Any reader of Scripture has read enough to know of human sinfulness in such a way that we’re just not shocked in this kind of context to find out that sexual manipulation, sexual oppression, sexual violence, sexual opportunism took place. And of course, all of this is just a complex of sexual sin. And I’ll just point out that the secular society has a hard time knowing how to unpack all of this. When in our secular society, the only moral principle many people hold to is consent, then the only way that someone like this can be seen as guilty of sexual misbehavior is if there was no consent. And actually that’s what Dolores Huerta is claiming. She’s claiming that this was assault against her will, against her consent. So, even the secular world can say, “Well, that’s wrong.” The secular world wants to say that there are no fundamental rules when it comes to sexuality so long as they’re consenting adults, but an article like this does imply there’s more to it. The moral verdict behind this does imply that there’s more to it. By the way, there’s another aspect of this, and that is that even on the left there is the belief that children can’t give consent in this situation. So, sexual activity against children, well, that turns out to be a sex crime, and that’s involved in this story too. I just want to remind Christians that we actually do share the moral outrage you see in these articles. We should. We should absolutely be in agreement that Cesar Chavez, if he did these things, should not be celebrated by anyone and has discredited himself and his movement to use, go down the list. And I can tell you, there are going to be an awful lot of renamed schools in coming days or months, however long it takes. This is just the way it works. It also tells you that human beings do have a very strong moral impulse. So let’s just not even think of left, right, let’s just think of moral impulse here. It’s a very strong moral impulse. And so, it is interesting that a lot of the people who would have demanded that Cesar Chavez, that there’d be a national holiday in his honor, they’re now wanting to take his name off of schools and all the rest, and it’s for moral wrongdoing. So, even in a society that wants to reduce the ground in which there’s recognized moral wrongdoing, at least on this, there is the agreement yep, this was profoundly evil. All right, one final thought on this. We as Christians understand that human beings are all sinners, and Christians are those who are sinners saved by grace. And the New Testament does include heroes of the faith, just think of what you find in the book of Hebrews. Men and women who courageously and faithfully served the cause of Christ, and even before Christ in the Old Testament you had Old Testament figures. Abraham, most extensively treated there in Hebrews as an exemplar. This doesn’t mean they were without sin, but it does mean that the final verdict on their lives was one of faithfulness by God’s grace and to God’s glory, and it was by God’s work. But we look at this and we recognize history does have a way of unfolding things. It has a way of unfolding things that leads to historical judgment. And just a matter of say a year ago, there would be people who would be wanting to put Cesar Chavez’s name on institutions. Now they want to take them off. And you know as Christians, we need to be the people who say, “There’s really something to this.” However, we also need to tell you, there’s a lot more to this than you think. Part IV British Girls Scouting Group Says No to Trans Participation: Group Rules Biological Males Cannot Be a Part – And the Lack of Controversy From Girl Guides Parents is a Story Unto Itself All right, finally I want to look at a controversy there in the United Kingdom that’s coming to us from Britain. The Telegraph reports, “Girl Guides at war over trans man.” Okay, the Girl Guides are the equivalent to the Girl Scouts here, and they come out of a common movement and of course they began both in Britain and in the United States with those identified as Boy Scouts back in that golden era when everyone knew what a boy was or who a boy was. And now we’re talking about a very different thing. You had girls organizations that were also formed, the Girl Guides, at least roughly analogous to the Girl Scouts in the United States. Now let’s just remind ourselves, the Girl Scouts have been confused for a long time. The Girl Scouts have been largely serving a very liberal revisionist morality to the left of the Boy Scouts. But then again, the Boy Scouts more or less just joined them. And in fact, now it’s just like Scouting USA. In other words, the boy and girl just removed, at least from the Boy Scouts side of the equation. And that’s a very sad thing, because I think these organizations had done a great deal of good, but it is telling that now you have in The Telegraph a headline that the Girl Guides are at war over a trans ban. Okay, so here’s the deal. The Girl Guides, again, just think of them as Girl Scouts in the United Kingdom, they had decided years ago to have basically a pro trans policy. And so, that meant that within the Girl Guides there would be those who were, let’s just state the obvious, physiologically boys. And it just turns out that didn’t work so well. Who would have thought it? That just didn’t work so well. And so, now they’re adopting a new policy, and this is the trans ban in the headline. We are told that there’s now an organization called Guiders Against Trans Exclusion, that’s G-A-T-E, how clever. We’re told, “The group encourages guide leaders to oppose the policy through activism, including writing to politicians and attending protests.” Okay, I just want to say to Christian parents, there is one absolutely, I just think important paragraph in this article coming from The Telegraph in London, I’m just going to read it to you. “One Brownie leader,” so you hear Brownie again, you recognize that same verbiage in the United States. “One Brownie leader, who asked to remain anonymous, said, ‘It’s an increasingly hostile environment. Communications from Girl Guiding headquarters seem to assume everyone is devastated by the rule change. I haven’t had a single parent ask me about it.'” Okay, sometimes civilization just comes into focus in an unexpected way through just a sentence like that. And so, we’re told that the headquarters at this organization, they assume that parents and scouts are going to hear this and see it as, hear it as bad news, but the article just goes on to say, “Quite honestly, I haven’t had a single parent ask me about it.” So let’s just say the obvious, the vast, and I mean the vast majority of parents would expect that this so called new policy should and should always have been the policy. It tells you something about the distance between the group and elites in power. So, it turns out that the elites in power who are lamenting that they had to make this decision, they’re in a very different moral position than say local scouting units, including the parents and the girls. They seem to understand this clearly, and see it clearly, and believe that it is clearly the right thing. By the way, one of the big issues behind this was a judgment by the Supreme Court there in the United Kingdom in Britain last April that made very clear that there really are two sexes, male and female, and sort of like what you have in the Trump administration’s very helpful clarification of the fact there are two sexes, two genders, male and female, the female with the large reproductive cell and the male with the small reproductive cell just in case someone out there is unable to connect the dots. It does tell you that these kinds of decisions, these kinds of rulings come with consequences. So the organization, once again, the Girl Guides there, they’ve really had to come into compliance with this ruling. I’ll just point out that as Christians look at it, it’s also compliance with God’s Law. Yes, yes. It’s also compliance with, oh, I don’t know, biology. Let me also point out that this decision by the Girl Guides was not generated from within the organization, basically forced on them by this judicial decision. And as in the United States, we have organizations, schools and others who are having to comply with the executive orders coming from the Trump administration. It’s a reminder to Americans that all of this correction, all of this clarification, all of this sanity will only last so long as those policies last. Thanks for listening to The Briefing. For more information, go to my website at albertmohler.com . You can follow me on X or Twitter by going to x.com/albertmohler . For information on the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to sbts.edu . For information on Boyce College, just go to boycecollege.com . I’ll meet you again tomorrow for The Briefing. R. Albert Mohler, Jr. I am always glad to hear from readers. Write me using the contact form . Follow regular updates on Twitter at @albertmohler . 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I’m Albert Mohler, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. ### [Part I]() *** ## The Death of the OnlyFans Owner: Leonid Radvinsky’s Death Brings the Evil Reality of the Pornography Industry into the Headlines There’s so many big news stories around us, so many happenings in the culture, so many issues thrown at us that Christians need to think through and need to understand in terms of a Christian worldview. Some of them are easier to talk about than others, and in its own category came the news yesterday that Leo Radvinsky, the owner of the vast website known as OnlyFans, had died at age 43 of cancer. Now, the death of Leo Radvinsky is a story into itself. The emergence of OnlyFans as one of the most significant purveyors of pornography in all of human history, well that’s very much due to Leo Radvinsky’s plan. Radvinsky himself was born in what is now the former Soviet Union in what is now present day Ukraine. His family came to the United States, lived in Chicago, he graduated from Northwestern University. He obviously was way ahead of his time in terms of digital technology and interest about how to commercialize the web and how to commercialize web traffic. He went into several different ventures before eventually centering in OnlyFans, which he purchased and basically ran. And through his leadership and during his leadership, that particular pornography site exploded to 377 million users, bringing in more than \$7.2 billion in revenue in a single year. So again, the numbers, 377 million users. That’s larger than the population of the United States of America. \$7.2 billion. We’re talking about a massive amount of money. Now, on the one hand, what this just underlines is the power of a distorted morality, a distortion of human sexuality, a distortion of creation order that is represented by the entire world of pornography. But we’re also looking at the fact that this is a story that could only happen at this point in human history. So, let’s just review a certain, say, historical survey of this issue. Pornography has been a problem ever since there were drawings made on caves. In other words, it’s just so much a part of the fallen human imagination that such things can be drawn and people can see them thousands of years later and go, “Okay, I know what that is.” All right. It is a distortion and a manipulation of God’s good gift of making us male and female, and establishing marriage and the sexual union, and the command be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, which was given to the first couple, to Adam and Eve. And what is intended to be a unitive gift to a man and a woman within the covenant of marriage for multiple goods, including the gift of children. The distortion of a sinful world leads to the fact that 3.77 million users are officially registered, and that means at least some kind of formal registry often involving financial information with this one platform, a platform that has done at least \$7.2 billion a year. Leo Radvinsky saw the opportunity to commercialize pornography in such a way that, I’ll just say, a provider of pornography, and in most cases this means one way or another a sex worker, is actually able to use the platform to sell pornographic materials, and to sell it in such a way that persons can go on and well, you can do the math. They can find what they’re looking for, they can pay for it. It doesn’t surprise us, I think, that the distortion of human sexuality in the Fall, and the fact that even as Romans chapter one tells us that people, sinners can give themselves over to sin, when you talk about this kind of industry at this kind of scale, you’re talking about the mass industrial production of pornography. And we’re also talking about it being consumer driven to such an extent that 377 million people are involved in this as registered users. And of course, there are thousands upon thousands of those who are also providing. Now, there’s so many dimensions to this, and maybe we just need to go over for a moment the fact that in every situation pornography is wrong, because pornography is based upon the Greek word porneia, which is wrongful desire. Okay, so that really, in terms of scriptural truth, just cuts through to the heart of the matter. Porneia is a corruption of and a distortion of something good. It is wrongful sexual desire. That means that there can be rightful sexual desire within the context of marriage that makes it holy. But when you talk about what this particular platform was commercializing, the OnlyFans platform, it was not a celebration of creation order biblical sexuality, it was the commercialization and mass production of its corruption and distortion. Well, all right, let’s talk about another Christian aspect of this, Christian biblical worldview aspect of this. What does it tell us that this is actually a mass industry? It tells us this is a massive problem. It tells us that what Paul describes in Romans chapter one is actually endemic in our society. As a society increasingly, we’re just given over to this kind of corruption and this kind of pornography. And evidence of that comes in the fact that OnlyFans is of interest to some people, not because of pornography at all but because of its financial success. There are people who look at it and say, “Look, this is an interesting financial model.” There were capital investment companies looking at purchasing OnlyFans simply because it is such a viable commercial product. If there are \$7.2 billion on the table this year, well, there are venture capitalists and investors who could say it could be eventually \$40 billion. The sky is the limit. The other issue for Christians is just to remind ourselves of what is essentially wrong with this. What is the evil at the heart of this? And that’s where we come to understand that what the secular world wants to say about Christians is often that we’re just anti-body and anti-sex, and that’s just profoundly not true. Being just profoundly anti-body and anti-sex would be anti-biblical, anti-creation order. You can’t possibly buy into that kind of denial and then at the same time celebrate God’s holy institution of marriage. You can’t celebrate a young man and a young woman entering into the holy covenant of marriage. You can’t celebrate nor fulfill that divine mandate to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. No, we have to see here that there’s big money, big, big money and the corruption of something good, and that’s just a basic Christian worldview issue. This is helpful, if we can just see it, most of the horrible things in the world are intentional subversions and corruptions of something that is good. It is something good turned into something evil by the fact that it’s wrenched out of its biblical context, it is corrupted from its creation order context and is made to be something else. Here’s another big lesson, something else sells. The Christian worldview has to explain why this kind of material is so very popular. How is it that human beings have found their way on a cave wall or on a massive digital platform to find, or to sell, or to consume this kind of material? Well, it is because we just see here the power of sin and the power of human depravity matched with human ingenuity. Well, that just leads to an ever-expanding problem. And when we talk about an ever-expanding problem, let’s just state the obvious, you had to look at a cave wall to see it. You had to be there to see it. When you’re talking about even, and many of us who are alive now, going back to the time when I was a teenager, a young man, you really didn’t have to worry about this issue in the same way. There was no internet, there was no widespread access even to this material. And thanks be to God for most people in my generation it wasn’t much of a problem, particularly for Christian young men, because frankly it was not something to which there was a great deal of access. How the world has changed, where you can have a teenager or a college student, or you can have a young man who can have access to virtually anything. And I started to say imaginable, but I think that’s a false limit. I think it’s virtually anything imaginable by anyone anywhere. So let’s just be really, really clear, the biblical worldview says no. The Bible says no to porneia, says no to wrongful sexual expression, wrongful sexual interest. There are those in the secular world who would say, “Look, that’s just some form of denialism, and people who hate the idea of sex and hate the idea of all the rest.” And the fact is we don’t hate anything that God has given us as a good, but we also can’t hate all the rest, which means the entire context and even the explicit commands that go with it. But we do understand, however, that if there is a human drive that is susceptible to this kind of subversion and corruption, sex would be it. And in particular, it’s not equilateral. That is to say that in patterns of sin, this is far more a male pattern than a female pattern of sin. And I’m not saying exclusively because that’s not so. In the digital age the virus is spreading, but I will simply say that in the main it is a male centered problem, but that also leads to other considerations. And so, there are those who are women on these platforms, and I’m just going to speak explicitly to that, and they are basically selling themselves. And this is a commercial platform that says, “You do it. We’ll allow someone to pay you to do it. We’ll create the platform for it.” When you think about a diabolical plan, I mean, this is just a deeply diabolical plan and strategy, and obviously it works. And at the time that Leo Radvinsky died, the report came just yesterday, there were firms trying to buy OnlyFans, and they’re not buying it because they want to shut it down. They’re buying it because if anything they want to expand it, to make it produce even more revenue, to attract even more users. And of course, that also means to widen all the expressions of depravity. I’m going to end it with that today. I think this is just an incredible wake-up call for all of us. We know that sin’s big business, and we know that some of the most explicitly sinful sins revealed as such in Scripture are those that are the most tenacious, and obviously they’re tenacious even in showing up as a consumer product. But as Christians, we have to understand that not only is this a direct rejection of creation order, a direct rejection of God’s plan, a direct disobedience to God’s word, it is a sin which is graphic in both what it represents by action and also by inaction. It is a sin both of omission and a sin of commission, and it also is a dehumanizing of human beings, and it is the exploitation of human beings. I guarantee you, behind all of this is not only sin and depravity and lust, there is also manipulation and oppression, and basically a form of at least financial enslavement when it comes to these patterns. So it’s a sad day, Leo Radvinsky died. He died of cancer, we are told, at age 43, a very young death, and this is catapulted the story into the headlines, and at least we as Christians need to understand there’s a lot more to this headline than the secular media would ever understand. ### [Part II]() * ## How Sin Rewrites Stories: The Dark Turn in the Story of Cesar Chavez Now next, speaking about the impact and the legacy of sin, we have to look at how sins rewrite stories. And so, in particular I want to point to Cesar Chavez, and of course, so many headlines just in recent days pioneering reporting work done by the New York Times, analysis by the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and just pretty much all across the media landscape. A lot of attention to Cesar Chavez, particularly from his coworker, Dolores Huerta, accusing Cesar Chavez, who died in 1993, of rampant sexual manipulation and even sexual assault, and sexual assault not only against Dolores Huerta, who has come forward with this story. And by the way, there’s a lot of corroborating evidence. So, there’s a lot of evidence that what she’s saying is true, and also that Cesar Chavez, who with Huerta had founded the United Farm Workers back in the period of the 1960s and the ’70s, we are talking about a rewriting of history now, a necessary rewriting of history. And Cesar Chavez has been a hero to so many people, especially on the political left, and in particular the Democratic Party, has held up Cesar Chavez. And let me just state that as a Christian, there is no doubt that he was responding to a legitimate claim of oppression in many cases. So again, the Bible’s very clear against oppressing people. At the same time, it was also clear that there was a leftist impulse behind this that also became a part of the movement as well. And so, as Christians we can understand that there are mixed motivations in any number of situations. Cesar Chavez was so celebrated that his name was put on many schools, including public schools, and by some estimates you’re talking about several hundred identifiable public buildings throughout the, especially the West and the Southwest of the United States that have been named for Cesar Chavez, cultural hero. The Democratic Party has been closely identified with support for the movement of Cesar Chavez and support from the United Farm Workers. ### [Part III]() * ## The Unfolding Revelation of History: History Has a Way of Disclosing the Truth About Both Good and Evil Geraldo L. Cadava writing at The Atlantic an article entitled The Dethroning of Cesar Chavez, he says this, “One of the most revered figures of not only Latino history but of all of 20th century United States history can no longer be thought of as heroic, but the movement he led still can be.” Okay, let me just mention that as Christians we need to understand how some of these stories work. And this is predictable, and this isn’t even a complaint. This is just a fact of how news gets out and how people deal with it. You have an initial report, and the first question when there’s a story of this kind of moral importance, the first question that comes on the part of many is, is it true? And then there’s a second wave of documentation that comes and the public has to make a decision. And by the way, in this case the evidence is evidently so overwhelming no one seems to be arguing at all that this didn’t happen. Then there is yet another wave. And in this you have the article that I decided from The Atlantic, “The Dethroning of Cesar Chavez,” this man’s coming back to say, “You know, we really do need to understand that Cesar Chavez was an evil man, and we need to take whatever actions are morally necessary to remove his name, to create distance, to revise history, et cetera.” But he goes on to say, and that’s the reason I read that sentence, that, “One of the most revered figures, not only of Latino history but also 20th century United States history can no longer be thought of as heroic,” but the next words are important, “but the movement he led still can be.” So, now you have another wave of response to something like this saying, “Okay, but let’s be careful to say that,” this is the argument that’s being made is, “that to Cesar Chavez may no longer be celebrated, but the movement he started can be.” That’s the argument that this article represents. I just want to remind us as Christians that this is the kind of thing that can still shock us, but it can’t fundamentally surprise us. Any reader of Scripture has read enough to know of human sinfulness in such a way that we’re just not shocked in this kind of context to find out that sexual manipulation, sexual oppression, sexual violence, sexual opportunism took place. And of course, all of this is just a complex of sexual sin. And I’ll just point out that the secular society has a hard time knowing how to unpack all of this. When in our secular society, the only moral principle many people hold to is consent, then the only way that someone like this can be seen as guilty of sexual misbehavior is if there was no consent. And actually that’s what Dolores Huerta is claiming. She’s claiming that this was assault against her will, against her consent. So, even the secular world can say, “Well, that’s wrong.” The secular world wants to say that there are no fundamental rules when it comes to sexuality so long as they’re consenting adults, but an article like this does imply there’s more to it. The moral verdict behind this does imply that there’s more to it. By the way, there’s another aspect of this, and that is that even on the left there is the belief that children can’t give consent in this situation. So, sexual activity against children, well, that turns out to be a sex crime, and that’s involved in this story too. I just want to remind Christians that we actually do share the moral outrage you see in these articles. We should. We should absolutely be in agreement that Cesar Chavez, if he did these things, should not be celebrated by anyone and has discredited himself and his movement to use, go down the list. And I can tell you, there are going to be an awful lot of renamed schools in coming days or months, however long it takes. This is just the way it works. It also tells you that human beings do have a very strong moral impulse. So let’s just not even think of left, right, let’s just think of moral impulse here. It’s a very strong moral impulse. And so, it is interesting that a lot of the people who would have demanded that Cesar Chavez, that there’d be a national holiday in his honor, they’re now wanting to take his name off of schools and all the rest, and it’s for moral wrongdoing. So, even in a society that wants to reduce the ground in which there’s recognized moral wrongdoing, at least on this, there is the agreement yep, this was profoundly evil. All right, one final thought on this. We as Christians understand that human beings are all sinners, and Christians are those who are sinners saved by grace. And the New Testament does include heroes of the faith, just think of what you find in the book of Hebrews. Men and women who courageously and faithfully served the cause of Christ, and even before Christ in the Old Testament you had Old Testament figures. Abraham, most extensively treated there in Hebrews as an exemplar. This doesn’t mean they were without sin, but it does mean that the final verdict on their lives was one of faithfulness by God’s grace and to God’s glory, and it was by God’s work. But we look at this and we recognize history does have a way of unfolding things. It has a way of unfolding things that leads to historical judgment. And just a matter of say a year ago, there would be people who would be wanting to put Cesar Chavez’s name on institutions. Now they want to take them off. And you know as Christians, we need to be the people who say, “There’s really something to this.” However, we also need to tell you, there’s a lot more to this than you think. ### [Part IV]() * ## British Girls Scouting Group Says No to Trans Participation: Group Rules Biological Males Cannot Be a Part – And the Lack of Controversy From Girl Guides Parents is a Story Unto Itself All right, finally I want to look at a controversy there in the United Kingdom that’s coming to us from Britain. The Telegraph reports, “Girl Guides at war over trans man.” Okay, the Girl Guides are the equivalent to the Girl Scouts here, and they come out of a common movement and of course they began both in Britain and in the United States with those identified as Boy Scouts back in that golden era when everyone knew what a boy was or who a boy was. And now we’re talking about a very different thing. You had girls organizations that were also formed, the Girl Guides, at least roughly analogous to the Girl Scouts in the United States. Now let’s just remind ourselves, the Girl Scouts have been confused for a long time. The Girl Scouts have been largely serving a very liberal revisionist morality to the left of the Boy Scouts. But then again, the Boy Scouts more or less just joined them. And in fact, now it’s just like Scouting USA. In other words, the boy and girl just removed, at least from the Boy Scouts side of the equation. And that’s a very sad thing, because I think these organizations had done a great deal of good, but it is telling that now you have in The Telegraph a headline that the Girl Guides are at war over a trans ban. Okay, so here’s the deal. The Girl Guides, again, just think of them as Girl Scouts in the United Kingdom, they had decided years ago to have basically a pro trans policy. And so, that meant that within the Girl Guides there would be those who were, let’s just state the obvious, physiologically boys. And it just turns out that didn’t work so well. Who would have thought it? That just didn’t work so well. And so, now they’re adopting a new policy, and this is the trans ban in the headline. We are told that there’s now an organization called Guiders Against Trans Exclusion, that’s G-A-T-E, how clever. We’re told, “The group encourages guide leaders to oppose the policy through activism, including writing to politicians and attending protests.” Okay, I just want to say to Christian parents, there is one absolutely, I just think important paragraph in this article coming from The Telegraph in London, I’m just going to read it to you. “One Brownie leader,” so you hear Brownie again, you recognize that same verbiage in the United States. “One Brownie leader, who asked to remain anonymous, said, ‘It’s an increasingly hostile environment. Communications from Girl Guiding headquarters seem to assume everyone is devastated by the rule change. I haven’t had a single parent ask me about it.'” Okay, sometimes civilization just comes into focus in an unexpected way through just a sentence like that. And so, we’re told that the headquarters at this organization, they assume that parents and scouts are going to hear this and see it as, hear it as bad news, but the article just goes on to say, “Quite honestly, I haven’t had a single parent ask me about it.” So let’s just say the obvious, the vast, and I mean the vast majority of parents would expect that this so called new policy should and should always have been the policy. It tells you something about the distance between the group and elites in power. So, it turns out that the elites in power who are lamenting that they had to make this decision, they’re in a very different moral position than say local scouting units, including the parents and the girls. They seem to understand this clearly, and see it clearly, and believe that it is clearly the right thing. By the way, one of the big issues behind this was a judgment by the Supreme Court there in the United Kingdom in Britain last April that made very clear that there really are two sexes, male and female, and sort of like what you have in the Trump administration’s very helpful clarification of the fact there are two sexes, two genders, male and female, the female with the large reproductive cell and the male with the small reproductive cell just in case someone out there is unable to connect the dots. It does tell you that these kinds of decisions, these kinds of rulings come with consequences. So the organization, once again, the Girl Guides there, they’ve really had to come into compliance with this ruling. I’ll just point out that as Christians look at it, it’s also compliance with God’s Law. Yes, yes. It’s also compliance with, oh, I don’t know, biology. Let me also point out that this decision by the Girl Guides was not generated from within the organization, basically forced on them by this judicial decision. And as in the United States, we have organizations, schools and others who are having to comply with the executive orders coming from the Trump administration. It’s a reminder to Americans that all of this correction, all of this clarification, all of this sanity will only last so long as those policies last. Thanks for listening to The Briefing. For more information, go to my website at [albertmohler.com](http://albertmohler.com/). You can follow me on X or Twitter by going to [x.com/albertmohler](http://x.com/albertmohler). For information on the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to [sbts.edu](http://sbts.edu/). For information on Boyce College, just go to [boycecollege.com](http://boycecollege.com/). 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Readable Markdown	It’s Tuesday, March 24th, 2026. I’m Albert Mohler, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. ### [Part I]() *** ## The Death of the OnlyFans Owner: Leonid Radvinsky’s Death Brings the Evil Reality of the Pornography Industry into the Headlines There’s so many big news stories around us, so many happenings in the culture, so many issues thrown at us that Christians need to think through and need to understand in terms of a Christian worldview. Some of them are easier to talk about than others, and in its own category came the news yesterday that Leo Radvinsky, the owner of the vast website known as OnlyFans, had died at age 43 of cancer. Now, the death of Leo Radvinsky is a story into itself. The emergence of OnlyFans as one of the most significant purveyors of pornography in all of human history, well that’s very much due to Leo Radvinsky’s plan. Radvinsky himself was born in what is now the former Soviet Union in what is now present day Ukraine. His family came to the United States, lived in Chicago, he graduated from Northwestern University. He obviously was way ahead of his time in terms of digital technology and interest about how to commercialize the web and how to commercialize web traffic. He went into several different ventures before eventually centering in OnlyFans, which he purchased and basically ran. And through his leadership and during his leadership, that particular pornography site exploded to 377 million users, bringing in more than \$7.2 billion in revenue in a single year. So again, the numbers, 377 million users. That’s larger than the population of the United States of America. \$7.2 billion. We’re talking about a massive amount of money. Now, on the one hand, what this just underlines is the power of a distorted morality, a distortion of human sexuality, a distortion of creation order that is represented by the entire world of pornography. But we’re also looking at the fact that this is a story that could only happen at this point in human history. So, let’s just review a certain, say, historical survey of this issue. Pornography has been a problem ever since there were drawings made on caves. In other words, it’s just so much a part of the fallen human imagination that such things can be drawn and people can see them thousands of years later and go, “Okay, I know what that is.” All right. It is a distortion and a manipulation of God’s good gift of making us male and female, and establishing marriage and the sexual union, and the command be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth, which was given to the first couple, to Adam and Eve. And what is intended to be a unitive gift to a man and a woman within the covenant of marriage for multiple goods, including the gift of children. The distortion of a sinful world leads to the fact that 3.77 million users are officially registered, and that means at least some kind of formal registry often involving financial information with this one platform, a platform that has done at least \$7.2 billion a year. Leo Radvinsky saw the opportunity to commercialize pornography in such a way that, I’ll just say, a provider of pornography, and in most cases this means one way or another a sex worker, is actually able to use the platform to sell pornographic materials, and to sell it in such a way that persons can go on and well, you can do the math. They can find what they’re looking for, they can pay for it. It doesn’t surprise us, I think, that the distortion of human sexuality in the Fall, and the fact that even as Romans chapter one tells us that people, sinners can give themselves over to sin, when you talk about this kind of industry at this kind of scale, you’re talking about the mass industrial production of pornography. And we’re also talking about it being consumer driven to such an extent that 377 million people are involved in this as registered users. And of course, there are thousands upon thousands of those who are also providing. Now, there’s so many dimensions to this, and maybe we just need to go over for a moment the fact that in every situation pornography is wrong, because pornography is based upon the Greek word porneia, which is wrongful desire. Okay, so that really, in terms of scriptural truth, just cuts through to the heart of the matter. Porneia is a corruption of and a distortion of something good. It is wrongful sexual desire. That means that there can be rightful sexual desire within the context of marriage that makes it holy. But when you talk about what this particular platform was commercializing, the OnlyFans platform, it was not a celebration of creation order biblical sexuality, it was the commercialization and mass production of its corruption and distortion. Well, all right, let’s talk about another Christian aspect of this, Christian biblical worldview aspect of this. What does it tell us that this is actually a mass industry? It tells us this is a massive problem. It tells us that what Paul describes in Romans chapter one is actually endemic in our society. As a society increasingly, we’re just given over to this kind of corruption and this kind of pornography. And evidence of that comes in the fact that OnlyFans is of interest to some people, not because of pornography at all but because of its financial success. There are people who look at it and say, “Look, this is an interesting financial model.” There were capital investment companies looking at purchasing OnlyFans simply because it is such a viable commercial product. If there are \$7.2 billion on the table this year, well, there are venture capitalists and investors who could say it could be eventually \$40 billion. The sky is the limit. The other issue for Christians is just to remind ourselves of what is essentially wrong with this. What is the evil at the heart of this? And that’s where we come to understand that what the secular world wants to say about Christians is often that we’re just anti-body and anti-sex, and that’s just profoundly not true. Being just profoundly anti-body and anti-sex would be anti-biblical, anti-creation order. You can’t possibly buy into that kind of denial and then at the same time celebrate God’s holy institution of marriage. You can’t celebrate a young man and a young woman entering into the holy covenant of marriage. You can’t celebrate nor fulfill that divine mandate to be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. No, we have to see here that there’s big money, big, big money and the corruption of something good, and that’s just a basic Christian worldview issue. This is helpful, if we can just see it, most of the horrible things in the world are intentional subversions and corruptions of something that is good. It is something good turned into something evil by the fact that it’s wrenched out of its biblical context, it is corrupted from its creation order context and is made to be something else. Here’s another big lesson, something else sells. The Christian worldview has to explain why this kind of material is so very popular. How is it that human beings have found their way on a cave wall or on a massive digital platform to find, or to sell, or to consume this kind of material? Well, it is because we just see here the power of sin and the power of human depravity matched with human ingenuity. Well, that just leads to an ever-expanding problem. And when we talk about an ever-expanding problem, let’s just state the obvious, you had to look at a cave wall to see it. You had to be there to see it. When you’re talking about even, and many of us who are alive now, going back to the time when I was a teenager, a young man, you really didn’t have to worry about this issue in the same way. There was no internet, there was no widespread access even to this material. And thanks be to God for most people in my generation it wasn’t much of a problem, particularly for Christian young men, because frankly it was not something to which there was a great deal of access. How the world has changed, where you can have a teenager or a college student, or you can have a young man who can have access to virtually anything. And I started to say imaginable, but I think that’s a false limit. I think it’s virtually anything imaginable by anyone anywhere. So let’s just be really, really clear, the biblical worldview says no. The Bible says no to porneia, says no to wrongful sexual expression, wrongful sexual interest. There are those in the secular world who would say, “Look, that’s just some form of denialism, and people who hate the idea of sex and hate the idea of all the rest.” And the fact is we don’t hate anything that God has given us as a good, but we also can’t hate all the rest, which means the entire context and even the explicit commands that go with it. But we do understand, however, that if there is a human drive that is susceptible to this kind of subversion and corruption, sex would be it. And in particular, it’s not equilateral. That is to say that in patterns of sin, this is far more a male pattern than a female pattern of sin. And I’m not saying exclusively because that’s not so. In the digital age the virus is spreading, but I will simply say that in the main it is a male centered problem, but that also leads to other considerations. And so, there are those who are women on these platforms, and I’m just going to speak explicitly to that, and they are basically selling themselves. And this is a commercial platform that says, “You do it. We’ll allow someone to pay you to do it. We’ll create the platform for it.” When you think about a diabolical plan, I mean, this is just a deeply diabolical plan and strategy, and obviously it works. And at the time that Leo Radvinsky died, the report came just yesterday, there were firms trying to buy OnlyFans, and they’re not buying it because they want to shut it down. They’re buying it because if anything they want to expand it, to make it produce even more revenue, to attract even more users. And of course, that also means to widen all the expressions of depravity. I’m going to end it with that today. I think this is just an incredible wake-up call for all of us. We know that sin’s big business, and we know that some of the most explicitly sinful sins revealed as such in Scripture are those that are the most tenacious, and obviously they’re tenacious even in showing up as a consumer product. But as Christians, we have to understand that not only is this a direct rejection of creation order, a direct rejection of God’s plan, a direct disobedience to God’s word, it is a sin which is graphic in both what it represents by action and also by inaction. It is a sin both of omission and a sin of commission, and it also is a dehumanizing of human beings, and it is the exploitation of human beings. I guarantee you, behind all of this is not only sin and depravity and lust, there is also manipulation and oppression, and basically a form of at least financial enslavement when it comes to these patterns. So it’s a sad day, Leo Radvinsky died. He died of cancer, we are told, at age 43, a very young death, and this is catapulted the story into the headlines, and at least we as Christians need to understand there’s a lot more to this headline than the secular media would ever understand. ### [Part II]() * ## How Sin Rewrites Stories: The Dark Turn in the Story of Cesar Chavez Now next, speaking about the impact and the legacy of sin, we have to look at how sins rewrite stories. And so, in particular I want to point to Cesar Chavez, and of course, so many headlines just in recent days pioneering reporting work done by the New York Times, analysis by the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and just pretty much all across the media landscape. A lot of attention to Cesar Chavez, particularly from his coworker, Dolores Huerta, accusing Cesar Chavez, who died in 1993, of rampant sexual manipulation and even sexual assault, and sexual assault not only against Dolores Huerta, who has come forward with this story. And by the way, there’s a lot of corroborating evidence. So, there’s a lot of evidence that what she’s saying is true, and also that Cesar Chavez, who with Huerta had founded the United Farm Workers back in the period of the 1960s and the ’70s, we are talking about a rewriting of history now, a necessary rewriting of history. And Cesar Chavez has been a hero to so many people, especially on the political left, and in particular the Democratic Party, has held up Cesar Chavez. And let me just state that as a Christian, there is no doubt that he was responding to a legitimate claim of oppression in many cases. So again, the Bible’s very clear against oppressing people. At the same time, it was also clear that there was a leftist impulse behind this that also became a part of the movement as well. And so, as Christians we can understand that there are mixed motivations in any number of situations. Cesar Chavez was so celebrated that his name was put on many schools, including public schools, and by some estimates you’re talking about several hundred identifiable public buildings throughout the, especially the West and the Southwest of the United States that have been named for Cesar Chavez, cultural hero. The Democratic Party has been closely identified with support for the movement of Cesar Chavez and support from the United Farm Workers. ### [Part III]() * ## The Unfolding Revelation of History: History Has a Way of Disclosing the Truth About Both Good and Evil Geraldo L. Cadava writing at The Atlantic an article entitled The Dethroning of Cesar Chavez, he says this, “One of the most revered figures of not only Latino history but of all of 20th century United States history can no longer be thought of as heroic, but the movement he led still can be.” Okay, let me just mention that as Christians we need to understand how some of these stories work. And this is predictable, and this isn’t even a complaint. This is just a fact of how news gets out and how people deal with it. You have an initial report, and the first question when there’s a story of this kind of moral importance, the first question that comes on the part of many is, is it true? And then there’s a second wave of documentation that comes and the public has to make a decision. And by the way, in this case the evidence is evidently so overwhelming no one seems to be arguing at all that this didn’t happen. Then there is yet another wave. And in this you have the article that I decided from The Atlantic, “The Dethroning of Cesar Chavez,” this man’s coming back to say, “You know, we really do need to understand that Cesar Chavez was an evil man, and we need to take whatever actions are morally necessary to remove his name, to create distance, to revise history, et cetera.” But he goes on to say, and that’s the reason I read that sentence, that, “One of the most revered figures, not only of Latino history but also 20th century United States history can no longer be thought of as heroic,” but the next words are important, “but the movement he led still can be.” So, now you have another wave of response to something like this saying, “Okay, but let’s be careful to say that,” this is the argument that’s being made is, “that to Cesar Chavez may no longer be celebrated, but the movement he started can be.” That’s the argument that this article represents. I just want to remind us as Christians that this is the kind of thing that can still shock us, but it can’t fundamentally surprise us. Any reader of Scripture has read enough to know of human sinfulness in such a way that we’re just not shocked in this kind of context to find out that sexual manipulation, sexual oppression, sexual violence, sexual opportunism took place. And of course, all of this is just a complex of sexual sin. And I’ll just point out that the secular society has a hard time knowing how to unpack all of this. When in our secular society, the only moral principle many people hold to is consent, then the only way that someone like this can be seen as guilty of sexual misbehavior is if there was no consent. And actually that’s what Dolores Huerta is claiming. She’s claiming that this was assault against her will, against her consent. So, even the secular world can say, “Well, that’s wrong.” The secular world wants to say that there are no fundamental rules when it comes to sexuality so long as they’re consenting adults, but an article like this does imply there’s more to it. The moral verdict behind this does imply that there’s more to it. By the way, there’s another aspect of this, and that is that even on the left there is the belief that children can’t give consent in this situation. So, sexual activity against children, well, that turns out to be a sex crime, and that’s involved in this story too. I just want to remind Christians that we actually do share the moral outrage you see in these articles. We should. We should absolutely be in agreement that Cesar Chavez, if he did these things, should not be celebrated by anyone and has discredited himself and his movement to use, go down the list. And I can tell you, there are going to be an awful lot of renamed schools in coming days or months, however long it takes. This is just the way it works. It also tells you that human beings do have a very strong moral impulse. So let’s just not even think of left, right, let’s just think of moral impulse here. It’s a very strong moral impulse. And so, it is interesting that a lot of the people who would have demanded that Cesar Chavez, that there’d be a national holiday in his honor, they’re now wanting to take his name off of schools and all the rest, and it’s for moral wrongdoing. So, even in a society that wants to reduce the ground in which there’s recognized moral wrongdoing, at least on this, there is the agreement yep, this was profoundly evil. All right, one final thought on this. We as Christians understand that human beings are all sinners, and Christians are those who are sinners saved by grace. And the New Testament does include heroes of the faith, just think of what you find in the book of Hebrews. Men and women who courageously and faithfully served the cause of Christ, and even before Christ in the Old Testament you had Old Testament figures. Abraham, most extensively treated there in Hebrews as an exemplar. This doesn’t mean they were without sin, but it does mean that the final verdict on their lives was one of faithfulness by God’s grace and to God’s glory, and it was by God’s work. But we look at this and we recognize history does have a way of unfolding things. It has a way of unfolding things that leads to historical judgment. And just a matter of say a year ago, there would be people who would be wanting to put Cesar Chavez’s name on institutions. Now they want to take them off. And you know as Christians, we need to be the people who say, “There’s really something to this.” However, we also need to tell you, there’s a lot more to this than you think. ### [Part IV]() * ## British Girls Scouting Group Says No to Trans Participation: Group Rules Biological Males Cannot Be a Part – And the Lack of Controversy From Girl Guides Parents is a Story Unto Itself All right, finally I want to look at a controversy there in the United Kingdom that’s coming to us from Britain. The Telegraph reports, “Girl Guides at war over trans man.” Okay, the Girl Guides are the equivalent to the Girl Scouts here, and they come out of a common movement and of course they began both in Britain and in the United States with those identified as Boy Scouts back in that golden era when everyone knew what a boy was or who a boy was. And now we’re talking about a very different thing. You had girls organizations that were also formed, the Girl Guides, at least roughly analogous to the Girl Scouts in the United States. Now let’s just remind ourselves, the Girl Scouts have been confused for a long time. The Girl Scouts have been largely serving a very liberal revisionist morality to the left of the Boy Scouts. But then again, the Boy Scouts more or less just joined them. And in fact, now it’s just like Scouting USA. In other words, the boy and girl just removed, at least from the Boy Scouts side of the equation. And that’s a very sad thing, because I think these organizations had done a great deal of good, but it is telling that now you have in The Telegraph a headline that the Girl Guides are at war over a trans ban. Okay, so here’s the deal. The Girl Guides, again, just think of them as Girl Scouts in the United Kingdom, they had decided years ago to have basically a pro trans policy. And so, that meant that within the Girl Guides there would be those who were, let’s just state the obvious, physiologically boys. And it just turns out that didn’t work so well. Who would have thought it? That just didn’t work so well. And so, now they’re adopting a new policy, and this is the trans ban in the headline. We are told that there’s now an organization called Guiders Against Trans Exclusion, that’s G-A-T-E, how clever. We’re told, “The group encourages guide leaders to oppose the policy through activism, including writing to politicians and attending protests.” Okay, I just want to say to Christian parents, there is one absolutely, I just think important paragraph in this article coming from The Telegraph in London, I’m just going to read it to you. “One Brownie leader,” so you hear Brownie again, you recognize that same verbiage in the United States. “One Brownie leader, who asked to remain anonymous, said, ‘It’s an increasingly hostile environment. Communications from Girl Guiding headquarters seem to assume everyone is devastated by the rule change. I haven’t had a single parent ask me about it.'” Okay, sometimes civilization just comes into focus in an unexpected way through just a sentence like that. And so, we’re told that the headquarters at this organization, they assume that parents and scouts are going to hear this and see it as, hear it as bad news, but the article just goes on to say, “Quite honestly, I haven’t had a single parent ask me about it.” So let’s just say the obvious, the vast, and I mean the vast majority of parents would expect that this so called new policy should and should always have been the policy. It tells you something about the distance between the group and elites in power. So, it turns out that the elites in power who are lamenting that they had to make this decision, they’re in a very different moral position than say local scouting units, including the parents and the girls. They seem to understand this clearly, and see it clearly, and believe that it is clearly the right thing. By the way, one of the big issues behind this was a judgment by the Supreme Court there in the United Kingdom in Britain last April that made very clear that there really are two sexes, male and female, and sort of like what you have in the Trump administration’s very helpful clarification of the fact there are two sexes, two genders, male and female, the female with the large reproductive cell and the male with the small reproductive cell just in case someone out there is unable to connect the dots. It does tell you that these kinds of decisions, these kinds of rulings come with consequences. So the organization, once again, the Girl Guides there, they’ve really had to come into compliance with this ruling. I’ll just point out that as Christians look at it, it’s also compliance with God’s Law. Yes, yes. It’s also compliance with, oh, I don’t know, biology. Let me also point out that this decision by the Girl Guides was not generated from within the organization, basically forced on them by this judicial decision. And as in the United States, we have organizations, schools and others who are having to comply with the executive orders coming from the Trump administration. It’s a reminder to Americans that all of this correction, all of this clarification, all of this sanity will only last so long as those policies last. Thanks for listening to The Briefing. For more information, go to my website at [albertmohler.com](http://albertmohler.com/). You can follow me on X or Twitter by going to [x.com/albertmohler](http://x.com/albertmohler). For information on the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to [sbts.edu](http://sbts.edu/). For information on Boyce College, just go to [boycecollege.com](http://boycecollege.com/). 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