Friday, May 8, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the effectiveness of cell phone bans in schools, YouTube in classrooms, the GUARD Act, Amsterdam’s ban on meat advertising for climate change, praying for a child’s salvation in view of God’s sovereignty, the big problem with a falling birth rate, meeting historical figures, the 10 Commandments and religious freedom, and if A.I. chatbots can become possessed by demonic forces.
Part I (00:13 – 06:41)
Cell Phone Bans in Schools, Do They Work? New Study Shows Positive Trends in Many Important Categories
- Did School Cellphone Bans Work? New Study Finds Mixed Results. by The New York Times (Dana Goldstein)
YouTube is Taking Over Classrooms: The Concerning Amount of Social Media Finding Its Way into School Curricula
- How YouTube Took Over the American Classroom by The Wall Street Journal (Shalini Ramachandran)
Guard Children From A.I. Chatbots: Senator Joshua Hawley’s GUARD Act Receives Unanimous Committee Vote — Now Will Both Houses of Congress Vote to Protect Children?
- Senator Hawley’s GUARD Act to Protect Kids from AI Chatbots Passes Committee Unanimously by U.S. Senator for Missouri (Senator Josh Hawley)
Amsterdam Bans Advertising Meat for Climate Change: The Left’s Cultural Insanity is Strong on Both Sides of the Atlantic
- This ban on advertising meat is the nanny state at its silliest by The Washington Post (The Editorial Board)
How Do I Pray for My Children and Encourage Them to Faith When the Bible Puts Forth Such a Big View of God’s Sovereignty? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
Part VI (18:25 – 21:15)
What is the Big Problem with the Falling Birth Rate? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
Part VII (21:15 – 22:50)
If You Could Meet One Historical Figure, Who Would It Be and Why? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter From a 13-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing
Part VIII (22:50 – 24:30)
Why Does Posting the 10 Commandments Not Violate the Religious Freedom of an Atheist Teacher? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
Part IX (24:30 – 26:09)
Can Chatbots Become Possessed by Demonic Forces? — 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 8, 2026. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.0 | You know, here we are in the digital age, we're in the smartphone age, we're in the Internet age. |
| 0:18.0 | You can just name the technology. It's all around us. And most people are connected |
| 0:23.6 | to it one way or the other. And that comes right down to even the existence of a podcast or a |
| 0:29.9 | broadcast or any kind of product like that. The world has been transformed. We do understand |
| 0:34.8 | there are grave dangers and they're not evenly distributed. |
| 0:38.0 | So let's put it another way. |
| 0:39.3 | We understand that there is a unique vulnerability to young people. |
| 0:42.9 | And one of the things that should appear insane to us is that children and young people |
| 0:46.7 | have been so exposed to not only cell phones, but to all kinds of very toxic, toxic influences. |
| 0:54.9 | And not only that, in the age of artificial intelligence, to chat bots that include, well, |
| 1:01.0 | as I say, some things that have led children and young people to self-destructive behavior, |
| 1:06.1 | some which have confused them sexually and so many other ways. |
| 1:10.7 | We're talking about something is it's just really dangerous. |
| 1:12.6 | We're also talking about the fact that these digital devices are taking so much time and |
| 1:17.6 | consuming so much attention that other things like making friends and sustaining friendships, |
| 1:23.6 | knowing how to have a conversation, all those things tend to fall apart. |
| 1:26.6 | Okay, so all around the |
| 1:27.9 | globe, people are beginning to awaken to this problem. And government after government is beginning |
| 1:33.3 | to take some kind of action. They are saying that children until a certain age, 15, 16, an average, |
| 1:40.2 | young people can't have social media accounts or they can't have full access to social media accounts. |
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