Friday, August 5, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 5 August 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 09:55)
We’re Living in Norman Lear’s America Now. But How Did We Get Here? — One Laugh, and Cringe, at a TimeTelevision’s boundary-smashing pioneer turns 100 by WORLD Opinions (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.)Part II (09:55 - 20:35)
Prophet of the Evangelical Left: The Life and Legacy of Ron SiderThe evangelical left loses its prophet by WORLD Opinions (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.)Part III (20:35 - 25:34)
Does Premillennialism Dissuade Christians from Political and Cultural Engagement? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The BriefingPart IV (25:34 - 26:38)
Can a Christian Young Man Join the Military and Serve Under Our Current Commander-in-Chief? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The BriefingPart V (26:38 - 27:33)
Should Pastors Address the Dobbs Decision from the Pulpit? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The BriefingPart VI (27:33 - 29:47)
What Kind of Books Do You Like to Read? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Young Listeners of The Briefing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, August 5th, 2022. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian |
| 0:12.4 | worldview. |
| 0:13.2 | We'll look at several worldview issues, then we're going to turn to your questions. |
| 0:17.0 | Great questions as always, some listeners to the briefing. |
| 0:20.3 | But as we begin today, we're going to be thinking about the impact of two lives. |
| 0:24.0 | In one case, two men. |
| 0:25.8 | One man who died, the other who is alive, but just celebrated his 100th birthday. |
| 0:30.7 | We'll start with them. |
| 0:31.4 | That's Norman Lear, one of the pioneers of network television, and if we understand in reality, one of the most powerful moral influences in America of the last several decades. |
| 0:42.0 | Most importantly in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. |
| 0:46.0 | During those pivotal decades in American history, decades of vast moral change, |
| 0:51.0 | Norman Lear was driving a lot of that change and if you were |
| 0:54.4 | watching network television you were probably watching stories told by |
| 0:58.5 | Norman Lear. You were probably laughing along the way as well because one of the things we're going to see is that |
| 1:04.3 | Norman Lear fully understood that you can transform culture in terms of its morality by a laugh track. |
| 1:11.9 | If you laugh at something, well that changes the way you look at it and if |
| 1:15.8 | others are laughing with you that creates a social context which also can bring about very |
| 1:20.9 | rapid moral change. |
| 1:23.0 | Norman Lear did turn 100 just last week and he was surrounded by his large family. |
| 1:28.6 | He turned 100 but he also changed the world and I would argue he might well have been the most influential |
| 1:34.0 | liberal figure in American life at a time in this country was turning left and as we |
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