Friday, October 24, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the rise of parenting advice and the fall of parenting sense, and he answers questions about if college is a scam, using extra-biblical sources in interpreting Scripture, dinosaurs, and homosexual interpretations of Scripture.
Part I (00:14 – 11:07)
Parents Need Biblical Counsel, Not Fads: The Rise of Parenting Advice and the Fall of Parenting Sense
- Millennials might be raising ‘Velcro kids.’ What does that mean and is it a bad thing? by USA Today (Madeline Mitchell)
- We’re Doing Child-Led Parenting by The New Yorker (Susanna Wolff)
What Do You Think About Charlie Kirk’s Thoughts on College? Is College a Scam? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter From an 18-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing
Part III (17:31 – 20:12)
What is the Proper Way to Use Extra-Biblical Sources in Interpreting Scriptures? How Should We Interpret Genesis? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
Part IV (20:12 – 24:47)
What Do You Make of Dinosaurs as a Young Earth Creationist? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
Part V (24:47 – 27:53)
How Do I Combat Pro-Homosexual Interpretations of Scripture? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter From a 15-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, October 24th, 2025. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.3 | Parenting advice. |
| 0:15.3 | The world seems to be filled with it. |
| 0:17.8 | Bookstores are, frankly, offering dozens and dozens of new titles a year coming from |
| 0:23.1 | publishers on advice for parents when it comes to raising children. Where did all this come from? |
| 0:28.9 | Well, Peter and Bridget Berger years ago wrote a book entitled The War on the Family in which they |
| 0:33.9 | said that one of the symptoms of the modern age is that a family, and in particular |
| 0:38.7 | parents, the mother and the father, are surrounded by what the burgers described as a regime |
| 0:44.2 | of experts. |
| 0:45.7 | Suppose that experts who are speaking into family life and defining family. |
| 0:50.3 | Now, that's a fascinating concept, and I think the burgers were absolutely right. But it also forces us to just think for a moment about where this avalanche of advice for parents came from and why. |
| 1:02.5 | Well, when it comes to just say how most parents came to be parents and to learn how to do parenting, they learned in the context of homes and neighborhoods and churches. There wasn't |
| 1:12.5 | so much this entire universe of professionals and experts speaking into parenting. That began to |
| 1:18.7 | change in the Victorian era. And so we're talking in the early modern age, in the Victorian era, |
| 1:23.4 | all the sudden, in the age of widespread print culture, you had magazines for moms and magazines |
| 1:29.5 | about the family and magazines and books that were written giving advice to parents. And that really |
| 1:35.5 | exploded with the therapeutic revolution of the 20th century. At that point, you had the rise of |
| 1:40.7 | not only the pediatric discipline as a specialization among physicians, but you also |
| 1:46.5 | had the regime of experts that came in psychologists, child psychologists, sociologists, the entire |
| 1:52.3 | therapeutic universe, educators, they all came saying that they knew what was best for children. |
| 1:58.2 | And of course, one of the things you have to note is that there have been wave after wave. All of these waves have come with this theory and then that theory, |
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