Friday, May 12, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 12 May 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 12:34)
Disney’s Super Fans with Super Fortunes: Golden Oak and the Power of Branding
- The Disney-Obsessed Shell Out Millions for Homes Inside This Exclusive Florida Community by Wall Street Journal (Katherine Clarke)
Part II (12:34 - 16:09)
‘We Worship the Mouse’: The Idolatry of Escapism
Part III (16:09 - 25:54)
As a Pastor, Is It Wrong to Accept an Invitation from a Same-Sex Couple to Join Them for a Meal? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, May 12, 2023. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from |
| 0:12.4 | a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.3 | The literary critic Robert Binchley decades ago said that there are two kinds of people |
| 0:18.9 | in this world, the kind of people who divide people into two kinds of people, and those |
| 0:23.8 | who do not. |
| 0:25.4 | No doubt you catch the irony, but the fact is that in America today we understand that |
| 0:30.0 | there are a lot of ways to divide up people and to two kinds of people. |
| 0:34.4 | So nice more than two kinds of people. |
| 0:36.6 | But identity politics, the controversial issues of the day, all of this has created a |
| 0:40.9 | context in which even the kinds of issues that would not have divided Americans in the |
| 0:46.5 | past now do. |
| 0:48.8 | Just take as example one Disney in Florida right now we have a face off a face off between |
| 0:54.9 | the governor of the state of Florida and the company as Disney, and we note that this |
| 0:59.7 | is coming in such a way that it will have national and even international consequences. |
| 1:05.5 | But I'm not talking about those giant moral issues into which Disney is involved itself |
| 1:10.4 | and the open controversy with the governor there in Florida, Ron DeSantis. |
| 1:15.1 | I'm looking instead at Disney as a symbol of something in our society. |
| 1:19.8 | And the Wall Street Journal has been taking a very interesting look in a major essay that |
| 1:24.5 | it has just appeared. |
| 1:25.6 | The headline quote the Disney obsessed shall out millions for homes inside this exclusive |
| 1:30.4 | Florida community. |
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