Friday, April 10, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses current Democratic messaging and what it’s missing, A.I. bots hijacking political polling, who’s responsible for the death of Noella Casillo, the intermediate state, if the Lord’s supper is a means of grace, if a man abandoned by his wife is disqualified from pastoral ministry, and the revival of classical Christian education.
Part I (00:13 – 08:14)
Gov. Newsom, Rahm Immanuel, and Democratic Messaging: Newsom and Immanuel Want ‘Sane’ Policies on Bathrooms and Locker Rooms, But Their Pragmatism Lacks Something Big
- For Democrats, the Era of the Girl Dad and Male Ally Is Over by The New York Times (Matthew Schmitz)
A.I. Bots are Hijacking Political Polling: Axios Reports That Many Polling Subjects are Not Even Human
- This Is What Will Ruin Public Opinion Polling for Good by The New York Times (Leif Weatherby and Benjamin Recht)
Who is Responsible for the Death of Noella Castillo? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
Part IV (13:21 – 17:38)
What Do We Know About the Intermediate State? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
Part V (17:38 – 20:29)
Is the Lord’s Supper a Means of Grace? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
Part VI (20:29 – 23:44)
Is It Plausible that a Man Whose Spouse was an Unrepentant Adulterer or Abandoned the Marriage Could be an Elder or Pastor? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
Part VII (23:44 – 27:22)
What About the Revival of Classical Christian Education? Are There Cautions Classical Christian Schools Should Keep in Mind as It Grows? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, April 10, 2006. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.4 | And by the way, today I'm coming to you with the background of the arc. All right, very interesting things are happening. You know, one of the most interesting |
| 0:23.4 | dynamics in terms of American culture, it comes down to the cycle of presidential elections. So when |
| 0:29.2 | you think about issues rising and falling, and even if you're trying just to track cultural and |
| 0:34.2 | moral change, one of the ways you can easily track it is by looking at the issues of debate, |
| 0:39.5 | presidential cycle by presidential election cycle. Okay, so the interesting action right now is not on |
| 0:45.5 | the Republican side because you have a Republican incumbent. It's on the Democratic side. |
| 0:50.6 | Because the Democrats, and there are many of them who are interested in gaining the |
| 0:54.7 | 2008 Democratic nomination, they're out on the hustings. They're making their case. On the |
| 1:00.6 | Republican side, you can't do that when you have an incumbent. Now, it will come at some point, |
| 1:05.8 | but it's going to be held off until the very last minute. On the Democratic side, there's no |
| 1:10.2 | reason for them not to get |
| 1:11.5 | into a slug fest right now. Okay, so something very interesting is happening. And in worldview |
| 1:16.6 | terms, I think it's just really interesting. So now, let me just tell you about an article that |
| 1:21.2 | recently ran in the New York Times. It ran on April the 5th. So that's just the past Sunday. |
| 1:27.3 | And the headline is this, Newsome has entered the 5th. So that's just the past Sunday. And the headline is this, Newsom has entered |
| 1:30.2 | the Manosphere. So we're talking about Gavin Newsom, very liberal Democratic governor of California, |
| 1:36.5 | very hungry as a presidential candidate. I mean, the fact that he's very interested in the |
| 1:40.8 | 2008 presidential nomination is unknown to nobody. It's as out there as it can be. |
| 1:48.1 | But it's not just about Gavin Newsom. It's also, in another sense, an issue about Rahm Emanuel, |
| 1:54.9 | who, of course, is a former U.S. ambassador to Japan under President Biden, senior White House official under President Obama, |
| 2:03.7 | former U.S. member of Congress, very well known, also basically very liberal in terms of basic |
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