Thursday, January 13, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 10:10)
Trans NYT Columnist Trumpets “Radical Normalcy of Trans ‘Jeopardy’ Winner.” But the Article Undermines the Argument — Normal Doesn’t Get a Headline The Radical Normalcy of a Trans ‘Jeopardy!’ Winner by New York Times (Jennifer Finney Boylan)Part II (10:10 - 12:11)
Demands that Airlines Add Non-binary to Tickets — How Moral Change Rides (Flies) on Public Pressure Arizona mom slams Delta for lack of gender options for her nonbinary child by NBC (Tat Bellamy-Walker)Part III (12:11 - 25:40)
The Parable of the Reformed Church in America—43 More Conservative Congregations Depart and the Total Membership PlummetsReformed Church in America splits as conservative churches form new denomination by Religion News Service (Kathryn Post)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, January 13, 2022. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
| 0:12.2 | from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | How are we to think about some things? |
| 0:16.3 | The world's ready to tell us, and as a matter of fact, |
| 0:18.7 | one of the most interesting ways we need to watch |
| 0:21.0 | the world-shaped opinion is by certain authorities, certain |
| 0:25.4 | influencers in the world telling us constantly this is how you should think. |
| 0:29.8 | Or perhaps even more coercively, this is how you must think. Getting with the right think of the world |
| 0:36.8 | is an imperative of our secular age. Now let's just understand the sociology of this. |
| 0:41.7 | No matter where and when you live there is a predominant |
| 0:45.2 | set of understandings. And living in a fast-paced time of moral change those |
| 0:50.3 | understandings are changing fast among the cultural influencers. |
| 0:54.7 | We are now constantly being told, nearly 24-7, how it is that the new moral revolutionaries |
| 1:01.0 | want us to think, demand that we will think, and tell us over and over again that |
| 1:05.7 | to think otherwise is simply not only to be out of step on the wrong side of history, but |
| 1:10.6 | just blatantly ignorant or perhaps even evil. But let's just look at |
| 1:16.0 | how we're being told how it is we are to think. Sometimes these arguments are so |
| 1:20.8 | over-argued that that becomes a part of the story. That's the case in a |
| 1:24.9 | recent argument that was made in the New York Times. It's an opinion piece by Jennifer |
| 1:29.3 | Finney Boyle and the headline is this, the radical normalcy of a trans jeopardy winner. |
| 1:35.8 | We're talking about a jeopardy champion, but we're being told that the fact that this champion |
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