Monday, May 1, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 1 May 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 11:53)
A Major Debate in the Pro-Life Movement Right Now: Should Pro-Life Efforts Target Federal Legislation, or Should It Focus on Legislation in the States, or Both?
- What comes now in the great battle for life? by WORLD Opinions (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.)
Part II (11:53 - 19:30)
The Temptation of Evangelical Moral Relativism: Holding the Line When Members of Christian Families Face Sin and Disorder
- Montana governor lobbied by non-binary son to reject anti-trans bills by The Guardian (Sam Levine)
Part III (19:30 - 27:13)
The Legacy of Sin is Very Long: ‘Nazi Cloud’ Hangs Over Jewelry Auction in New York and the Release of Dutch Archive of Accused Nazi Collaborators
- Nazi Cloud Hangs Over One of the Largest Jewelry Sales in History by New York Times (Zachary Small)
- Dutch to Make Public the Files on Accused Nazi Collaborators by New York Times (Nina Segal)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, May 1st, 2023. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a |
| 0:11.7 | Christian world view. |
| 0:13.5 | It has been a tumultuous few days, especially when you look at the moral landscape in this |
| 0:17.8 | country, and its several developments primarily, most importantly right now at the state level. |
| 0:23.6 | And in particular, we're looking at the states in Nebraska and South Carolina, also the |
| 0:28.0 | state of Montana, other states are in play, different issues in at least some of these |
| 0:32.7 | states, but right now the big issue is abortion. |
| 0:35.2 | And the big headline news as we went into the weekend is that it was conservatives, or at |
| 0:40.5 | least some who called themselves conservatives or Republicans who blocked abortion limits |
| 0:45.6 | in proposed legislation in the states in Nebraska and South Carolina. |
| 0:49.7 | Now Nebraska is an interesting case because there you have a unicameral legislature. |
| 0:54.3 | You have just one house. |
| 0:55.3 | You don't have a house in a Senate divided. |
| 0:57.1 | The legislature is one house. |
| 0:59.1 | It is supposedly nonpartisan, but almost all the candidates run as either Democrats or |
| 1:04.0 | Republicans. |
| 1:05.2 | And you have a D or an R after most of those lawmakers names. |
| 1:09.3 | And in Nebraska, it was something of an establishment Republican who stopped the effort to try to draw |
| 1:14.2 | a more restrictive limit on abortion in that state in South Carolina. |
| 1:18.2 | In particular, it was a couple of Republican women. |
| 1:22.4 | And almost immediately this is put into a political context, a team of reporters |
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