Monday, April 6, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 – 10:21)
American Honor, American Life: The Dramatic Rescue of an American Fighter Pilot in Iran
Part II (10:21 – 15:45)
A New Age of Warfare: Americans Want an Exit Strategy in Iran, But the Situation is Complicated and Changing
Part III (15:45 – 23:12)
Calls for Peace, Lacking in Moral Clarity: Looking at Statements by the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury
- Trump is a sinner but by disarming Iran he could be doing the Lord’s work by The Telegraph (Charles Moore)
- Archbishop prays for Middle East peace in first Easter sermon by BBC News (Maia Davies)
Should a Woman Hold the Office of Archbishop of Canterbury? The Anglican Communion is Likely to Divide Over This Violation of Scripture
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, April 6, 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 | Well, at 12.08 a.m. on Easter Sunday morning, that is to say, just this past Sunday, |
| 0:19.0 | 12.08 a.m., the president of the United States, |
| 0:22.2 | announced to a post on social media that that second F-15 pilot who had been missing after the |
| 0:28.1 | plane was shot down over Iran had been rescued by American forces. Okay, so it was a really big |
| 0:34.2 | story. And it came as really good news to this nation. And I want us to think about this in geopolitical terms and understand what we're really looking |
| 0:42.3 | at, not just in terms of a military conflict between the United States and Iran, we're looking |
| 0:47.4 | at a clash of worldviews. |
| 0:48.8 | So let me just make the worldview issues a little more clear. |
| 0:53.6 | When the United States announced that the F-15E strike |
| 0:58.1 | eagle had been shot down, that's an enhanced tactical version of the F-15, one of the most important |
| 1:03.3 | aircraft in the history of American defense aviation, and when it was announced that the plane |
| 1:09.4 | had been shot down over Iran, it was announced |
| 1:13.0 | that one of the two pilots had been rescued, but the other was missing. And this went on |
| 1:17.6 | over the course of time between Friday, U.S. time, and Sunday morning, U.S. time. Now, time was |
| 1:26.1 | running out because it was also announced that Iran had advertised |
| 1:31.0 | a reward to anyone there within the nation who might be able to find the pilot. And look, |
| 1:38.3 | when you talk about Iran, you talk about this kind of situation, you're talking about a hostage |
| 1:42.1 | leverage situation. That's exactly the way Iran has operated. |
| 1:45.7 | Just remind yourselves of 1979. When the radical forces took control, took hostage, all those |
| 1:52.2 | Americans there in the U.S. Embassy and held them for 444 days and released them only after |
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