Thursday, January 26, 2023

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 10:13)
Church of England Will Not Authorize Same-Sex Marriages But Permits Clergy to Bless Same-Sex Unions — This is Moral Cowardice and a Theological Disaster

Draft prayers of thanksgiving, dedication and for God’s blessing for same-sex couples published by Church of England

Part II (10:13 - 20:47)
The Church’s Bishops are Corrupting the Church: There Can Never Be a Middle Way Between Same-Sex Marriage and Orthodox, Biblical Christianity

Church of England Will Bless Same-Sex Couples, but Won’t Marry Them by New York Times (Euan Ward)

Part III (20:47 - 25:25)

Trans Kids Deserve Private Lives, Too by New York Times (Michelle Goldberg)

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0:00.0	If there is a January 26, 2023, I'm Albert Moulier, and this is the briefing.
0:10.4	A daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:14.9	Anglicanism came out of the Reformation in the 16th century.
0:18.4	The Church of England, Anglican by the way, refers to its Englishness.
0:23.0	The Church of England was officially established when King Henry VIII made a formal break
0:28.0	with the Church of Rome and more directly even with the Pope.
0:32.0	Breaking with the Pope, which Henry VIII by the way had defended until he needed his divorce
0:37.0	and the Pope was recalcitrant, there's a lot to unpack there, but the breach between
0:41.5	the English throne and the papacy eventually led to the establishment of a separate church
0:47.0	in England.
0:48.7	And that in the context of the Great Reformation of the 16th century raised the huge question,
0:53.3	what kind of church will it be?
0:55.6	Could it be a Protestant church?
0:57.8	It couldn't exactly be a Catholic church because of the breach with Rome, after all.
1:02.8	If its Catholic is in Roman Catholic, then the Pope in Rome must be recognized as its
1:07.6	supreme head.
1:09.4	But that's the one thing that Henry VIII, of course, would not and could not do.
1:13.6	Therefore, just driven by historical circumstances, his own ego and ambition, and furthermore,
1:20.6	driven by the logic of the Reformation, which was outpacing his own ambition, the reality
1:25.8	is that Henry VIII ended up establishing something like a reformed or reformation church,
1:32.6	known as the Church of England, within England during the 16th century.
1:36.8	But from the beginning, it was clear that Henry VIII intended for the Church of England
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