Monday, September 11, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 11 September 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 03:52)
A Historic City Rocked by Devastating Earthquake: Marrakech Struck by 6.8 Magnitude Earthquake
- Morocco earthquake kills more than 2,000 people, survivors sleep outdoors by Reuters (Ahmed Eljechtimi and Abdulhak Balhaki)
Part II (03:52 - 20:50)
California’s Assault on the Family: Radical New Gender Bill is an Assault on Parental Rights
- Assembly Bill No. 957 by California Legislative Information
- Controversial Transgender Youth Bill by National Review (Ari Blaff)
- District Can’t Notify Parents if their Child Identifies as Transgender by New York Times (Anna Betts)
Part III (20:50 - 27:15)
Prison Break: What Recent Breakdowns of Prison Security in the UK and the U.S. Teach About the Depravity (and Ingenuity) of the Human Heart
- Daniel Khalife: First sighting of escaped prisoner investigated by BBC News (James Gregory)
- Murder Suspect Is Missing After Escape From D.C. Hospital by New York Times (Christine Hauser)
- Manhunt Persists as Escaped Pennsylvania Convict Danelo Cavalcante Slips Past Police Perimeter by Wall Street Journal (Ginger Adams Otis)
- Tower Officer Who Missed Danelo Cavalcante’s Prison Break Fired by Wall Street Journal (Ginger Adams Otis)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, September 11, 2023. |
| 0:07.4 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from |
| 0:11.8 | a Christian world view. |
| 0:13.4 | The earthquake in Morocco came on Friday night with devastating effect. |
| 0:17.8 | It may turn out to be one of the deadliest earthquakes in that nation's history, but |
| 0:22.6 | we're going to have to see. |
| 0:23.9 | But we already know it's a great tragedy in that country. |
| 0:27.0 | The epicenter was close to Merrick Kesch, one of the world's historic cities there in |
| 0:31.1 | North Africa, and the death tolls already between two and three thousand. |
| 0:36.5 | Some of this is just a reminder to us that even as we take the ground and the stability |
| 0:41.4 | the ground for granted, that's simply not true. |
| 0:44.9 | The earth, just about everywhere, is in some kind of motion, and of course when that |
| 0:48.7 | motion becomes destructive with the release of this kind of energy in an earthquake, and |
| 0:54.5 | at this point the Richter scale is estimated to have been somewhere around 6.8 on that scale. |
| 1:00.3 | The fact is that when that epicenter takes place under the right, or you might say even |
| 1:04.6 | the wrong conditions, it can be particularly devastating. |
| 1:08.6 | There's another factor when it comes to Merrick Kesch and the villages around it there |
| 1:13.1 | in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains, one of the great mountain ranges of the world. |
| 1:18.0 | The fact is that earthquakes are relatively rare there, and the need for housing is great |
| 1:23.9 | there. |
| 1:24.9 | Merrick Kesch, by the way, is not the most famous of the cities in Morocco. |
| 1:30.0 | That would be undoubtedly Casablanca, but it is among the biggest cities there. |
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