Friday, September 15, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 15 September 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 11:10)
An Historic Haven for the Famous Under Fire: France Welcomes Disgraced Hollywood Film Celebrities to International Film Festival
- A French Welcome for Woody Allen, Louis C.K. and Johnny Depp by New York Times (Steven Kurutz)
Part II (11:10 - 18:56)
Can the Origins of Religious Liberty in the U.S. Be Traced Back to the Bible? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part III (18:56 - 23:06)
How Should Christian Medical Professionals Think About Emergency Triage Situations? Is It Another Form of the Trolley Problem? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part IV (23:06 - 24:54)
Is There Any Biblical Basis for Arguing That Conception and Implantation are Both Necessary for Life? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing
Part V (24:54 - 27:28)
What Was the Name of the First Church? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a 6-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, September 15, 2023. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from |
| 0:11.8 | a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.5 | You know, on the briefing, we routinely have to look at the distinction between red states |
| 0:16.9 | and blue states and the fact that the divide between red states and blue states is getting |
| 0:21.0 | ever deeper and is reaching more basic issues. |
| 0:24.8 | But today I'm not going to talk about red states and blue states. |
| 0:27.2 | I'm going to talk about red countries and blue countries because as it turns out, political |
| 0:32.2 | divisions, language divisions, culture divisions sometimes turn out to be moral divisions as |
| 0:37.3 | well. |
| 0:38.3 | Now, an interesting story is going to take us into this issue, and it's actually a report |
| 0:42.3 | in the New York Times, and it's from the style section. |
| 0:45.7 | So this isn't the big headline news, this isn't the business section, this is the style |
| 0:49.8 | section. |
| 0:50.8 | It has to do with entertainment. |
| 0:52.7 | In the headline in this case is this, France is a haven for performers under fire. |
| 0:58.6 | So the big story here is that performers in the United States, celebrities who've gotten |
| 1:02.8 | in moral trouble, they could not show up on the platform of the Academy Awards, or they're |
| 1:08.2 | not going to show up on the A list of celebrities, they're going to be shunned even by Hollywood |
| 1:13.6 | and New York and by the cultural elites. |
| 1:16.3 | But they increasingly just show up in France where they are still celebrated. |
| 1:21.8 | They're still celebrities, and they still have a lot of cash value. |
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