Thursday, January 30, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 07:52)
Devastating Tragedy at Reagan National Airport: American Airlines Flight 5342 and Military Black Hawk Helicopter Collide
Part II (07:52 - 21:10)
It Must Never Happen Again — Reflecting on the 80th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
- At Auschwitz, a Solemn Ceremony at a Time of Rising Nationalism by The New York Times (Andrew Higgins)
Part III (21:10 - 24:54)
‘How Could We Let This Happen?’: The Anniversary of Roe v. Wade Reminds Us of the Horrific Moral Evil of Abortion
- Georgians mark abortion ruling anniversary in vastly different ways by The Atlanta Journal Constitution (Maya T. Prabhu)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, January 30, 2025. I'm Albert Mowler, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.3 | The headlines came last night in a flurry telling us of the collision of two aircraft near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:22.9 | We now know that close to 9 o'clock last night, an American Airlines regional jet carrying 60 |
| 0:29.0 | passengers and four crew collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter carrying three military personnel. |
| 0:36.5 | As the news came in last night, there seemed to be the |
| 0:39.5 | inevitability of a very significant loss of human life. And even as a search and rescue operation |
| 0:45.9 | is still underway, there in the waters of the Potomac, it was made more complicated last night |
| 0:51.2 | by the darkness and the cold. So there were several complicating factors. |
| 0:56.9 | But what you see in the aftermath of that crash, a crash so close to the nerve center of the |
| 1:02.6 | American government, what you see is the fact that even in such a highly technological age, |
| 1:08.6 | where just about everything happening anywhere near Washington, D.C. |
| 1:12.2 | is tracked so carefully. Something like this can happen, and on the one hand, you do have a sense |
| 1:18.0 | that someone knows exactly what happened, but it takes a while for the details to come out. |
| 1:23.0 | Obviously, there are good many additional details to come out. This is one of the most highly complicated, |
| 1:29.0 | one of the most highly concentrated, highly trafficked areas in the nation's airspace. And there had |
| 1:35.1 | been a sense for some time that an increased likelihood of some kind of conflict, if not |
| 1:40.6 | collision, was becoming more likely, especially as the traffic was on an uptick |
| 1:45.4 | at just about every level. Now, exactly how the accident happened last night, we do not know. |
| 1:51.4 | We do know that the first concern are the human lives at stake. And even as the video from |
| 1:57.8 | security cameras and as the information and images came in, it was clear that this |
| 2:02.5 | was a devastating crash. We are looking at a total of about 67 human lives that are at stake |
| 2:09.6 | in this incident. The American Airlines flight had originated in Wichita, Kansas, and it was in |
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