Friday, June 27, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:14 – 09:50)
We are Peering over a Demographic Cliff: This Year’s High School Graduating Class is the Biggest in American History, But It’s Downhill From Here
- Peak Pomp & Circumstance by The Washington Examiner (Timothy P. Carney)
Is God Good to Permit That My Wife Die from a Brain Tumor at a Young Age? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letter from Listeners of The Briefing
Part III (15:00 – 17:23)
Do You Agree with Charles Spurgeon on ‘Political Christians’? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 15-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing
Part IV (17:23 – 19:59)
What Advice Would You Give to An Aspiring Academic? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from an 18-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing
Part V (19:59 – 23:47)
Can a Christian Participate in a Peaceable Protest? Was It Wrong for Me to Attend a Political Protest? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letter from Listeners of The Briefing
Part VI (23:47 – 29:18)
How Should Christians Approach Complicated Figures Like Martin Luther? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letter from Listeners of The Briefing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, June 27, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.8 | Well, my guess is that a good number of you were at one or more graduation ceremonies or services over the course of the last several weeks. |
| 0:22.7 | There's been a very interesting development along those lines. It used to be that there were, |
| 0:27.8 | in the main, two graduation opportunities, graduations from high school and graduation from |
| 0:33.0 | college. So when someone talked about a commencement ceremony, that's basically what it was, |
| 0:37.3 | high school or college. |
| 0:39.2 | And then, of course, there were graduate schools, and so there could be a graduation ceremony for a law school, a medical school, a theological seminary. |
| 0:46.2 | You just go down the list. |
| 0:47.5 | But pretty much it was high school graduation, college or university graduation, and then graduate school graduation mostly high school in college |
| 0:56.3 | that's what commencement ceremonies were but it's interesting to see how there has been a |
| 1:01.2 | further development of this understanding so now you have graduation from kindergarten you have |
| 1:07.4 | graduation from the first grade a graduation from elementary school we have graduation from middle school pretty soon you're going to have graduation from the first grade. You have graduation from elementary school. You have |
| 1:11.1 | graduation from middle school. Pretty soon you're going to have graduation from every day's class, |
| 1:15.5 | I think. But that's just the direction of the world. And by the way, why did that happen? Well, |
| 1:19.9 | part of it is the culture of affirmation. That's part of it. We love affirming and we love being |
| 1:25.1 | affirmed. And so that's one of those opportunities. We love occasions. |
| 1:28.8 | And what's not cute about putting five and six year olds into graduation gowns and putting them in front of a line. |
| 1:36.0 | And, you know, there's nothing uncute about that. |
| 1:39.6 | The problem is that it really does blur the line between what's a really significant academic achievement |
| 1:46.8 | and what is not. Nonetheless, this is kind of a losing argument, and so I think you're probably |
| 1:52.9 | going to see more and more opportunities for graduation. By the way, there's money in it. |
| 1:56.9 | That's the other thing many people miss. There is money in it, the economy. |
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