Thursday, December 19, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 19 December 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 12:06)
How the Collapse of Germany’s Government Could Be a Foreshadowing: What Happens in Germany is Important to Christian in the U.S. and in the World
Part II (12:06 - 13:46)
The Big Problem of Underperformance in the UK: It Doesn’t Matter If You Have an Empire If You Can’t Flush the Sewers
- British Authorities Criticized Over Sewage Spills in Public Waterways by The New York Times (Amelia Nierenberg)
Part III (13:46 - 15:59)
The UK’s Final Ruling on the Cass Review: The U.S. Needs to Heed the Warnings Over Transgender Procedures on Minors from Britain
- The Cass Review by The Cass Review
Part IV (15:59 - 22:22)
No, Disney, Parents Do Not Want Transgender Storylines: Pixar Pulls Transgender Storyline From Upcoming Series
- Disney removes transgender storyline from upcoming Pixar streaming series by NBC News (Daniel Arkin)
Part V (22:22 - 25:17)
Judge Rules Transgender Teaching in Schools Violate Parental Rights: The Sexual Revolution is Colliding with Parental Rights, Religious Liberty, and More
- How Trump Can Target Transgenderism in Schools by The Wall Street Journal (Max Eden)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, December 19, 2024. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | There are issues foreign and domestic that demand our attention, and as we are barreling towards the holiday season with Christmas just looming before |
| 0:22.0 | us, it is very interesting to note that the headlines don't wait. The big issues don't wait. |
| 0:28.2 | There's a certain sense in which a lot can be put on hold, but you know what? |
| 0:32.4 | Even a major decision about whether the government would stand or fall in Germany couldn't be put |
| 0:37.1 | on hold. It couldn't |
| 0:38.2 | wait until the new year. And just on Tuesday of this week, the government in Germany fell. |
| 0:43.4 | Now, you'll recall that we talked just days ago about the government in France falling. |
| 0:48.3 | In this case, it is the government in Germany. And if anything, this is a bigger story, even |
| 0:53.0 | than the fall of the government in France. |
| 0:55.4 | And that is because Germany is in so many ways and has served in so many ways as the anchor |
| 1:01.5 | of the entire European experiment. Now, even when we talked about the fall of the government |
| 1:06.3 | in France, we talked about the fact that this is a larger worldwide pattern. We're going to look more at that in just a moment. But it's also true that France and Germany together have basically determined much of the politics when it comes to Western Europe. And they have also together basically established a unity that, by the way, has been very good for the world because |
| 1:28.1 | when France and Germany go to war, it seems that at least in recent cycles, the whole world |
| 1:33.2 | has gone to war. So it's a good thing that Germany and France have been at peace now for a |
| 1:38.2 | matter of long decades, and both of them have been considered examples of democratic stability, |
| 1:45.4 | especially Germany. |
| 1:51.0 | Germany is supposed to be the nation of seriously minded Germans who are serious about their industry, |
| 1:55.4 | they're serious about their universities, they're serious about their literature, they're serious about their military, they are serious about everything, and they are serious about government. |
| 2:00.2 | This kind of instability in |
| 2:02.3 | Germany is antithetical to Germany's own sense of itself as a nation. And that's especially true |
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