Thursday, August 18, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 12:11)
It’s a Last Resort But They Save Precious Lives: Safe Haven Drop Boxes as a Parable of Our AgeDrop Box for Babies: Conservatives Promote a Way to Give Up Newborns Anonymously by New York Times (Dana Goldstein)Part II (12:11 - 19:10)
Killing the Baby is Less Heartless than a Mother Giving Her Child a Chance at Life? An Astonishing Argument From the Culture of DeathDrop Boxes for Unwanted Babies: ‘Cruel’ and ‘Traumatizing’ by New York Times Part III (19:10 - 24:42)
China’s Communist Party Wants to Limit Abortion? It’s All About Demographics, Not About Human DignityChina Set to Discourage Abortion Amid Concern over Birthrates by Washington Post (Karina Tsui)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, August 18, 2022. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Intense and immense pressure produces a certain kind of clarity. |
| 0:18.0 | That's true in physics, it's true in politics, it's true in morality, probably true in your own experience just in terms of relationships |
| 0:25.8 | and conversation. |
| 0:26.8 | Pressure often clarifies. |
| 0:29.9 | Under the current cultural pressure of a society largely tearing itself apart at the most basic |
| 0:34.9 | level of moral reality, we are looking at the fact that some stories erupt, some issues happen, |
| 0:41.7 | and they are incredibly clarifying. |
| 0:44.6 | Now clarifying is not necessarily just a positive or a negative issue. |
| 0:48.7 | Sometimes what is clarified is very haunting. |
| 0:52.0 | Sometimes what is clarified is very encouraging. |
| 0:55.0 | What is clarified may at times turn out to be a lie, other times a truth. |
| 1:01.0 | But as we're thinking about it, it is the Christian responsibility to know |
| 1:04.7 | the one from the other. And sometimes a hard truth is revealed. A story coming out of |
| 1:10.1 | Indiana, published in the New York Times, turns out to be one of those clarifying opportunities. |
| 1:16.3 | In this case, it has to do with the Safe Haven Baby Box at a courthouse in Carmel, Indiana. |
| 1:22.6 | Now, what are we talking about here? |
| 1:24.0 | We're talking about a box, a box large enough to hold a living, breathing, human baby. |
| 1:30.3 | A box that exists to be a refuge for that baby in the case that that baby is |
| 1:35.3 | unwanted or the mother may be unable to care for the baby. The baby box is |
| 1:40.4 | there as a refuge and honestly as I think about these boxes and I have seen |
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