Friday, August 26, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 14:17)
A Looming Disaster: South Korea Tops Its Own Record for Lowest Fertility Rate — And Is Still Trending DownwardSouth Korea Breaks Record for World’s Lowest Fertility Rate, Again by New York Times (John Yoon)Part II (14:17 - 19:53)
What are the Succinct Elements of a Biblical Worldview? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The BriefingPart III (19:53 - 22:19)
What Conservative and Liberal News Sources Should I Use to Help My Daughter Learn How to Evaluate the News? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing Part IV (22:19 - 26:38)
I’m a Christian Who Qualifies for President Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness. Should I Accept It? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, August 26, 2022. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | We're going to be looking at some different issues today, big issues we've considered this week. |
| 0:18.4 | We're going to shift a bit to look at some issues that have a longer horizon and then we're going to turn to questions. |
| 0:24.6 | We're going to go first to South Korea. |
| 0:26.2 | South Korea made headlines over the last several years for its low fertility rate. |
| 0:31.2 | As a matter of fact, recently it has had the world's lowest |
| 0:34.4 | fertility rate. The headlines right now are telling us that this past year |
| 0:39.1 | South Korea has surpassed its low birth rate to an even lower birth rate. |
| 0:45.0 | Indeed, right now the world's lowest fertility rate. |
| 0:49.0 | This news has caught the attention of many around the world. |
| 0:52.0 | John Eun, reporting for the New York Times, tells us, |
| 0:54.5 | quote, South Korea broke its own record |
| 0:56.2 | for the world's lowest total fertility rate last year, |
| 0:59.4 | as census data showed, and experts project it will drop even further this year, adding to concerns |
| 1:05.9 | about the country's shrinking and aging population. |
| 1:09.7 | The statistics are actually pretty overwhelming, and we're talking about fairly recent history. |
| 1:15.0 | Let's go back to the year 1970. |
| 1:17.0 | In the year 1970, South Korea had a total fertility rate of 4.53. So 4.53 that is above the replacement rate. At that |
| 1:28.8 | rate South Korea would have a fairly fast growing population. Lots of babies, lots of young families, lots of strollers, but you compare |
| 1:38.0 | 1970 with just say 2018. By 2018, the total fertility rate in South Korea had dropped below 1.0 |
| 1:48.9 | Now I know you're thinking about an interesting question. |
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