Monday, February 13, 2023

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 26 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 - 09:24)
What the Great Spectacle Shows: A Look at What Super Bowl LVII Reveals About Our Culture

Severely understaffed hospitals shouldn’t be buying Super Bowl ads by Washington Post (Farzon A. Nahvi)

Part II (09:24 - 19:22)
Incentivizing Vice: One of the Many Problems of Sports Gambling

Part III (19:22 - 25:56)
You Will Know It By Its Fruit: The Devastation Left in the Wake of the Gambling Industry

Would Jesus Bet on the Super Bowl? by Wall Street Journal (Barton Swaim)

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0:00.0	It's Monday, February 13, 2023.
0:08.0	I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from
0:12.4	a Christian worldview.
0:14.1	Well Super Bowl 57 is now one for the record books, and those books will show that the
0:18.2	Kansas City Chiefs won Super Bowl 57.
0:21.8	The game took place in a stadium of course in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix,
0:27.6	and it was a big deal as a Super Bowl always is a big deal.
0:31.7	Super Bowl 1 was 1967.
0:34.5	It was the brainchild of the then leader commissioner of the NFL known as Pete Rosell.
0:39.9	Pete Rosell saw a great opportunity for this titanic game between the two conferences
0:45.8	in the National Football League.
0:48.0	And by the time the Super Bowl was actually held, it indeed turned out to be a Super Bowl
0:53.1	with tens of millions of viewers.
0:55.9	Pete Rosell and the NFL hit the jackpot, and Americans had basically absorbed the Super
1:00.9	Bowl as an ongoing annual event, very much a part of American culture.
1:06.6	But that also means from a worldview perspective that when you look at the Super Bowl, you are
1:11.0	looking at least to some extent at how America thinks of itself.
1:16.4	And that ought to set us to some thinking.
1:18.6	It is estimated that over 100 million Americans were involved in some kind of activity related
1:24.2	to the Super Bowl.
1:25.7	There were Super Bowl parties and of course, Super Super Bowl parties.
1:29.5	There were all kinds of festivities.
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