Friday, May 26, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 26 May 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 14:12)
Social Media Preys on the Young: The Federal Government Sounds the Alarm on Dangers of Social Media Use Among Adolescents
- Social Media Could Pose ‘Profound Risk of Harm’ to Young People’s Mental Health, Surgeon General Warns by Wall Street Journal (Jennifer Calfas)
- Teenagers Resent Social Media. They Also Resent Efforts to Take It Away. by New York Times (Troy Closson, Olivia Bensimon, Wesley Parnell and Michael D. Regan)
Part II (14:12 - 18:41)
How is Jesus God’s Son? How Can He Be God and Man at the Same Time? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 12-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing
Part III (18:41 - 21:27)
Why Did You Not Mention the Connection of Satanism to The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence on The Briefing? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part IV (21:27 - 23:54)
How Would You Respond to a Christian Couple Who Argues They Can Cohabitate So Long as They Do Not Sleep Together? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part V (23:54 - 28:54)
To What Degree Do We Legislate Morality Without Creating a Theocracy? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, May 26, 2023. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from |
| 0:12.2 | a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Just about every intelligent person knows that social media now represents an enormous |
| 0:18.8 | challenge. |
| 0:20.0 | If not a direct threat when it comes to individual well-being, social health, you just |
| 0:25.2 | go down the list. |
| 0:26.2 | Let's just a public and private morality as well. |
| 0:29.4 | We are watching American relationships, speaking here just in this country, to take an example, |
| 0:35.0 | become extremely problematic to use a contemporary word problematized by the emergence of social |
| 0:41.1 | media. |
| 0:43.2 | Social media came with the promise of increased sociability and relatability, and there |
| 0:47.9 | are dimensions of social media that can still function that way. |
| 0:51.4 | It's easier to keep up with an old high school buddy in terms of Facebook. |
| 0:56.1 | It's easier to keep up with some of the latest happenings, and say your friend or network |
| 1:01.4 | of family, just by looking at Instagram, but when it comes to most social media and when |
| 1:07.4 | it comes to the greatest consumption of social media, it's not evenly distributed. |
| 1:12.8 | And a lot of it's just profoundly not social. |
| 1:16.5 | And the problem of social media as an individual and social challenge is not evenly distributed. |
| 1:22.4 | Yes. |
| 1:23.4 | Older adults who have problems that emerge from social media, but we know that the most |
| 1:28.7 | vulnerable are the younger among us. |
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