Friday, November 1, 2024

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 1 November 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 10:27)
‘It’s Camp. It’s Carnal. It’s Macabre. It’s Silly.’: The Current Celebration of Halloween Has Much to Tell Us About the Moral Trajectory of Our Culture

The Music Industry Is Hoping Halloween Can Be the New Christmas by The New York Times (Marc Hogan)

Part II (10:27 - 17:08)
How Can I Honor God with My Feelings When I’m Not Allowed to Date Yet? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 16-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Part III (17:08 - 20:00)
How Can We Keep Christ at the Center of Our Wedding in Every Way? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Part IV (20:00 - 22:10)
Do You Get the Ordo Salutis Wrong in Your New Book? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Recapturing the Glory of Christmas by B&H Publishing (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.)

Part V (22:10 - 23:41)
What’s the Difference Between the Social Gospel and Liberation Theology? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Part VI (23:41 - 27:21)
Why Didn’t God Make Us So That We Know Everything When We’re Born? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 10-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

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0:00.0	It's Friday, November 1st, 2024. I'm Albert Moeller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:13.4	You know, the headlines around us are so huge. War in Ukraine, war in the Middle East, a presidential election here in the United States, the list could go on. But if you
0:22.2	are a person of a certain age, and that is to say, if you are a child, the big of it this week
0:26.7	may well have been Halloween and trick-or-treating. I wanted to wait until the day after, just to
0:32.6	think about this a bit, and to look at what's happening in our culture and what the current
0:37.4	celebration of Halloween tells us about the direction in our culture and what the current celebration of Halloween
0:38.5	tells us about the direction of our culture. Now, as we're talking about Halloween, that is itself
0:44.1	a linguistic conflation, a reduction of All Hallows Eve. And All Hallows Eve is the night before
0:51.5	All Saints Day on the liturgical Christian calendar. All Saints
0:55.4	Day points to the dead. And of course, it is an affirmation, at least in this historic context,
1:01.0	of the fact that those who die in Christ are awaiting the resurrection that is to come. They are
1:06.0	saints because they were Christians who are now awaiting the resurrection. But the concentration on the
1:12.9	dead, especially on All Hallows Eve, the night before, it turned into a rather, well, a rather
1:20.4	strange celebration, at least in many parts of the world, and that includes in the English
1:25.1	speaking world. And as you're thinking about this,
1:28.3	the English-speaking world is really in many ways the Genesis story of Halloween as we know it now.
1:35.0	It goes back to that liturgical calendar. It goes back to the medieval period. But actually,
1:40.0	historians say this kind of fall celebration of dark things goes back thousands of years and at least
1:47.2	in terms of modern historical perspective at least 2,000 years and it probably goes back in the
1:53.1	English-speaking world to Celtic roots and in particular to the nation of Ireland. In Ireland,
2:00.4	there was an ancient commemoration known as
2:03.0	Sowan. Now, it is spelled S-A-M-H-I-N, but it's pronounced Sowan, and that is a particular time in the fall
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