Friday, March 1, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 1 March 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 11:32)
Mothers Endangering Their Daughters? Front Page Report from The New York Times Reveals Dangers of Predators on Social Media
- A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men by The New York Times (Jennifer Valentino-DeVries and Michael H. Keller)
Part II (11:32 - 13:18)
When Did God Build Heaven? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 3-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing
Part III (13:18 - 14:42)
If We Are So Sinful, Why Does God Love Us? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from an 8-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing
Part IV (14:42 - 17:14)
Am I Called to Celibacy? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 15-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing
Part V (17:14 - 19:42)
Is It Wrong Not to Implant Frozen Embryos That Are Not Viable for Pregnancy? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part VI (19:42 - 23:12)
What Are Your Thoughts on Sperm Donation? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part VII (23:12 - 26:19)
As a Wedding Photographer, What is the Moral Dimension Behind How I Choose Which Weddings to Shoot? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, March 1st, 2024. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian |
| 0:12.3 | worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Oftentimes when we're thinking about some of the big challenges of the digital age, |
| 0:18.2 | we think about technology and its effect on our lives. |
| 0:21.3 | We understand new areas of vulnerability, and we especially |
| 0:24.7 | understand that there are particular dangers for the youngest among us. |
| 0:29.7 | But it's also important to recognize that sometimes these issues unfold in ways that are shocking. |
| 0:35.4 | For example, this past Sunday, the New York Times had a front-page news story above the fold, by the way. |
| 0:40.7 | That's a lot of prominence. |
| 0:42.1 | Here's the headline, |
| 0:43.2 | Predators Lear as Moms put girls on Instagram. This is a team reporting story for |
| 0:50.1 | the New York Times and it turns out to be a really really big story and frankly |
| 0:54.0 | for reasons to go far beyond the interest of the reporters or the editors of the |
| 0:58.0 | New York Times because our concern as Christians is to look at the deepest |
| 1:02.2 | level of concern here and quite frankly the |
| 1:05.5 | deepest level of concern is not social media and it is not girls being put on |
| 1:10.6 | Instagram as supposed cultural influencers. It's about a lot more than that. |
| 1:16.0 | The story is telling us here that there is a burgeoning market which is attracting an awful lot |
| 1:21.7 | of adolescent girls and young women in being |
| 1:24.8 | social media influencers because there is money to be made, there is celebrity to be |
| 1:30.9 | made, and there's just a lot of cultural attention that is paid to these |
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