Monday, February 7, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 7 February 2022
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 08:09)
What Does It Mean to be an Evangelical? According to David Brooks, It Means to be a Part of a Fracturing Movement at War with ItselfThe Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself by New York Times (David Brooks)Part II (08:09 - 15:49)
Evangelicals are Out of Step with the New York Times — No Surprise There Sir, you are not a conservative by WORLD Opinions (R. Albert Mohler Jr.)Part III (15:49 - 19:39)
The Transgender Revolution: If You Accept the Ideology You Accept the PoliciesN.C.A.A. to Review U.S.A. Swimming’s New Policy for Transgender Athletes by New York Times Part IV (19:39 - 26:59)
'Lia Thomas Has Every Right to Live Authentically’: The Transgender Movement, Existentialism, and the Psychotherapeutic TurnTeammates say they are uncomfortable changing in locker room with trans UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas by New York Post (Patrick Reilly)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, |
| 0:05.0 | Monday, February 7, 2022. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
| 0:11.8 | from a Christian worldview. This |
| 0:13.8 | week's getting started off in a big way yesterday, the New York Times review |
| 0:18.0 | section, that's the opinion section of the New York Times, gave three entire |
| 0:22.2 | pages in yesterday's print edition to an article by columnist |
| 0:26.1 | David Brooks entitled The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism. |
| 0:31.7 | In the online edition, a couple of words were added. The dissenters trying |
| 0:35.2 | to save Evangelicalism from itself. Now, it's very interesting that this article appeared. |
| 0:40.4 | The timing is not accidental, and even as we begin to look at this article, we recognize |
| 0:45.8 | that there is something to how David Brooks begins this article. |
| 0:49.8 | He begins by looking at a divide in the midst of what's called evangelicalism in the United States. |
| 0:55.6 | More on that in just a moment. |
| 0:57.3 | He is, of course, a clever writer and he begins in a clever way. |
| 1:00.2 | He says, quote, think of your 12 closest friends. |
| 1:03.0 | These are the people you vacation with, talk about your problems with, do life with in the most |
| 1:06.8 | intimate and meaningful ways. |
| 1:08.7 | Now imagine if six of those people suddenly took a political or public position you found utterly vile. |
| 1:14.0 | Now imagine learning that those six people think that your position is utterly vile. |
| 1:19.0 | You would suddenly realize that the people you thought you knew best and cared about most had actually been |
| 1:23.8 | total strangers all along, you would feel disoriented, disturbed, unmoored, your life would |
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