Thursday, March 2, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 2 March 2023
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 13:55)
New College Set on a New Course: The New York Times Calls It a Higher Education Apocalypse — Is It?
- Florida Could Start Looking a Lot Like Hungary by New York Times (Michelle Goldberg)
- Ron DeSantis, Black History and CRT by Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board)
Part II (13:55 - 20:58)
A Sign of the Confusion of Our Times: LA Prosecutor Suspended For ‘Misgendering’ and ‘Deadnaming’ Defendant
- Prosecutor in controversial Hannah Tubbs case suspended for ‘misgendering’ defendant by LA Times (James Queally)
Part III (20:58 - 29:44)
Now Hiring, Rat Czar: New York City Has a Rat Problem — And a Bigger Ethical Dilemma of How to Terminate Them ‘Humanely’
- Is There an Ethical Way to Kill Rats? Should We Even Ask? by New York Times (Oliver Whang)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, March 2nd, 2023. I'm Albert Molar and this is the briefing. A daily analysis |
| 0:11.2 | of news and events from a Christian worldview. We often discuss on the briefing the fact that |
| 0:15.8 | there are certain dimensions of the culture that particularly indicate the clash of worldviews. |
| 0:21.6 | One of those inevitably is education. Because as you get about the process of education, |
| 0:26.9 | you have to make some very clear decisions. Who's going to teach what's going to be taught, |
| 0:32.7 | who will be the student, and what is to be the intended outcome of the entire educational |
| 0:37.6 | process? Now it is interesting that if you consider two different contexts of education. |
| 0:43.3 | Number one, the public school system in the United States of America, and you look at the |
| 0:47.9 | large university system throughout most of American history, those two vastly influential |
| 0:53.7 | sectors of education in the United States, they operated for most of the 20th century, or at least |
| 1:00.7 | the early and middle part of the 20th century, on the basis of a vast cultural consensus. |
| 1:06.1 | And that consensus was reflected in the fact that there weren't that many controversies |
| 1:10.2 | over how to teach math, or who was going to teach math, or what math actually represented. |
| 1:15.9 | But as you're looking at the public schools now, and as you're looking at higher education, |
| 1:20.0 | you recognize that almost everything is controversial. It's controversial from the beginning of |
| 1:24.7 | the class day until the end. It's controversial about what is taught, who is taught, how it is taught, |
| 1:30.3 | and that's because of a more basic breakup in the society, a breakup in which you now |
| 1:34.8 | have at least two rival visions of what education is to be, and that's true at the elementary |
| 1:41.3 | school and kindergarten level, it's certainly true at the level of higher education. But all |
| 1:46.4 | of that is controversial. And if you want to look right now at ground zero in that controversy, |
| 1:51.6 | one of the most interesting places to look is the state of Florida, which happens to me, my |
| 1:55.6 | home state, and I myself am a product of the schools in Florida, first grade through the 12th grade. |
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