Friday, April 29, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 17:24)
What Happens When Marriage, Family, and Community Are Subverted? America Has a Loneliness Epidemic and Its Teenagers Are in a Severe Mental Health Crisis‘It’s Life or Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens by New York Times (Matt Richtel)Children as Young as 8 Should Be Screened for Anxiety, Experts Recommend by Wall Street Journal (Brianna Abbott)How Loneliness Is Damaging Our Health by New York Times (John Leland)Part II (17:24 - 18:53)
The Spy Next Door: Russian Sleeper Agent Who Headed Spy Group in U.S. Dies in Russia at 79Mikhail Vasenkov Dies at 79; His Spy Ring Inspired ‘The Americans’ by New York Times (Sam Roberts)Part III (18:53 - 20:35)
What is the Conservative Solution to Income Inequality? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The BriefingPart IV (20:35 - 22:44)
Should We Use Genetic Treatment or Modification for Embryos? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The BriefingPart V (22:44 - 24:34)
Does Hebrews 11:3 Undermine Creation Ex Nihilo? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The BriefingPart VI (24:34 - 26:06)
Why Will We Have Tears to Wipe Away on Judgment Day When We Are in the Presence of God? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, April 29, 2022. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
| 0:12.2 | from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Several headline stories tell us that American adolescents, |
| 0:18.0 | indeed Americans in general, even American children, |
| 0:21.0 | are suffering from mental illness and anxiety at record rates. |
| 0:26.4 | The New York Times, this past Sunday ran not one but two major stories. |
| 0:30.7 | One was on the front page, the headline, |
| 0:33.0 | It's Life or Death. |
| 0:34.1 | U.S. teenagers face a mental health crisis. |
| 0:37.2 | Inside the same newspaper, as if the other article hadn't even run, |
| 0:41.5 | there was a major article of the headline, |
| 0:43.3 | The City has a loneliness problem. |
| 0:46.0 | Then just days before the Wall Street Journal had announced |
| 0:48.9 | that children as young as age 8 |
| 0:51.3 | should now be screened for anxiety because the mental illness, the stress, the anxiety |
| 0:56.5 | problem, has now been down shifted to the very young, even to elementary school. |
| 1:03.0 | The front page article on teenagers was by Matt Ritchie, and he summarized it this way, |
| 1:07.6 | quote, American adolescents is undergoing a drastic change. |
| 1:11.6 | Three decades ago, the gravest public health threats to |
| 1:14.4 | teenagers in the United States came from binge drinking, drunken driving, |
| 1:18.3 | teenage pregnancy and smoking. These have since fallen sharply replaced by a new public health concern soaring |
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