Friday, March 27, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:14 – 10:00)
Children Growing More Liberal? New Article in the Scientific American Claims are Children Less ‘Homophobic.’ Much Is at Stake Here
- The kids are all right by Scientific American (Melinda Wenner Moyer)
How Should Christians Respond to the Deaths of Evil People? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
Part III (14:31 – 17:43)
How Do I Handle the Moral Challenge of My Passion for My Fiancé Before We are Married? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
Part IV (17:43 – 19:29)
How Should Christians Think of Prenuptial Agreements? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
Part V (19:29 – 23:32)
Does Abuse Constitute Grounds For Divorce? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
Part VI (23:32 – 28:28)
How Can I Know For Sure God Has Called Me to Ministry? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, March 27, 2006. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Are the kids all right? Well, the cover story of the current edition of Scientific American declares the kids are all right. The subhead in the cover story, quote, |
| 0:23.3 | what the doomsayers get wrong about the young people of today. Okay, so for Christians, that's a |
| 0:28.4 | big issue, right? We want to know if the kids are okay. We want to know, you know, what even does |
| 0:33.5 | this cover story point to? What is it talking about? You look at the article itself, |
| 0:37.8 | and the headline again is, the kids are all right. The subhead inside the magazine, |
| 0:42.7 | young people are doing better than you think. The author's identified as Melinda Winter Moyer, |
| 0:48.1 | and she is a science journalist. She begins the article by basically making the case that there |
| 0:53.1 | have been dire predictions and prophecies, dire analyses about the current state of kids suggesting they're not doing well. |
| 1:00.8 | She comes back to say a lot of this is overblown. |
| 1:03.9 | She writes this, quote, if you were to ask most people how kids are doing these days, you probably get an earful of complaints and concerns compared with |
| 1:11.1 | children from past generations. Kids today are often portrayed as being less mentally healthy, |
| 1:15.6 | less resilient, less empathetic. That's a big word that's used over and over again. Continuing, |
| 1:21.9 | she cites headlines such as America's children are unwelled, New York Times, back in November. |
| 1:27.4 | How to know if your kid is a narcissist and what to do about it. |
| 1:31.1 | Another online article. |
| 1:33.4 | You also have, she says the fact that, quote, in a 2025 common sense media survey of 1,300 nationally |
| 1:40.1 | representative parents, 61% said they believe kids today lag behind past generations |
| 1:45.0 | and their morals and values, and more than half said youth today are less resilient and independent. |
| 1:50.1 | End quote. All right. So let's just step back for a moment. Anytime you see a big moral question |
| 1:56.5 | primarily dealt with in terms of a war of statistics or just an easy dismissal of an argument, |
| 2:03.9 | your defense mechanisms should go up. In other words, if 61% of parents said 71% of this, |
| 2:10.2 | that doesn't really tell you much. But it does frame an argument. And for our concern, |
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