Friday, May 30, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 10:00)
The Moral Significance of Bricks: The Dark and Weighty Reality of Living in a Town Built for Nazis
- ‘Are the Bricks Evil?’ In a Village Built for Nazis, Darkness Lingers. by The New York Times (Sally McGrane)
Part II (10:00 - 14:01)
Ed Smylie, Who Saved Apollo 13 Crew, Dies at 95 – And Duct Tape Was Crucial for the Success of His Heroic Act
- Ed Smylie knew this stick-fast wonder could fix anything by The Economist
Part III (14:01 - 18:58)
If Marriage is a Good, God-Ordained Institution, Why Does the Apostle Paul Say That It Can Be a Hindrance to Ministry? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part IV (18:58 - 21:31)
Is ‘5 Solas’ an Oxymoron? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part V (21:31 - 26:51)
How Can We Know That What We Know is Correct? — 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, May 30, 2025. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.6 | Are the Bricks evil? |
| 0:15.2 | That's an interesting question posed in moral terms about a village, a village in a beautiful area beside a lake very near to |
| 0:23.9 | Berlin, Germany. And I'm speaking for Berlin right now. But the New York Times just ran an article |
| 0:29.1 | asking the question, are the Bricks evil? The subhead of the article in a village built for |
| 0:33.7 | Nazis, darkness lingers. The article raises huge questions about historical legacy. |
| 0:39.1 | What does it mean that the Nazis, not only the Nazis, but the SS, the most feared branch of |
| 0:45.4 | the Nazis, built this as an SS village. What about the people who are living there now? |
| 0:51.9 | What does that mean in moral terms? Thus the question, are the bricks |
| 0:56.2 | themselves evil? The little neighborhood is known as Waldzinglung or Forest Estate. It is also known |
| 1:03.3 | as curved lakeside or Krumelanke. It is described as, quote, a sought-after place to live in the |
| 1:10.0 | German capital. |
| 1:11.2 | Named after an adjacent lake, its residents compare it to a fairy tale village. |
| 1:16.1 | Little peaked roof cottages with wood shutters are built into a dense green forest crisscrossed by mossy paths. |
| 1:21.9 | It goes on, quote, whole swaths are carless. |
| 1:25.1 | Children play in the gardens, while dogs run free in a sloping meadow in the summer, |
| 1:29.2 | a short walk and flip-flops in a bathing suit leads to the lake. But the article says, |
| 1:35.1 | quote, life here also means channeling Germany's brutal past. The neighborhood was built in the lead-up to |
| 1:40.5 | World War II as an elite community for the SS, the elite guard of the Nazi Reich, |
| 1:45.7 | whose responsibilities included carrying out the Holocaust, end quote. |
| 1:50.3 | It is true that wherever human beings are and wherever human history is known, |
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