Thursday, May 1, 2025

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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

Part I (00:14 - 07:40)
Can Religious Schools Be Publicly Funded Charter Schools? SCOTUS Hears Major Religious Liberty Case from Oklahoma

Part II (07:40 - 21:59)
Pronatalism as Policy: The Trump Administration Grapples with a Falling Birth Rate and the Definition of the Family

White House Assesses Ways to Persuade Women to Have More Children by The New York Times (Caroline Kitchener)

Part III (21:59 - 23:06)
Not Every Pronatalist Argument is Christian: The Mandate is Clear in Genesis, But Eugenics is Anti-Christian

Part IV (23:06 - 26:45)
The Ripple Effects of Record Low Birth Rates: We Should All Be Concerned About the Plummeting Birth Rates – Universities and Toy Manufacturers Undoubtedly Are

U.S. Fertility Rate Remains Near Record Low by The Wall Street Journal (Jennifer Calphas and Anthony DeBarros)

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, May 1st, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:13.7	Very interesting oral arguments yesterday at the Supreme Court of the United States, and the case has to do with whether or not a Catholic organization
0:22.5	can organize and run a charter school in the state of Oklahoma. And the state of Oklahoma has said no.
0:31.1	And the case has now gone to the Supreme Court of the United States, where yesterday in oral
0:36.2	arguments, it does appear that most of the
0:39.1	conservatives on the court are likely to rule that indeed it is unconstitutional for the state
0:45.6	of Oklahoma to say that the only group, the only type of group that may not operate a charter
0:51.9	school is a religious organization. I stated that very carefully.
0:56.4	It's not to say that the court is likely to rule that religious organizations should run
1:02.1	charter schools, but rather that the state cannot discriminate and say the one group that cannot run a
1:07.6	charter school is a Christian or religious organization. There's a lot behind this. First of all, you have the definition of a charter school is a Christian or religious organization. There's a lot behind
1:12.6	this. First of all, you have the definition of a charter school. And honestly, to me, I think this
1:16.8	is one of the most important issues. What in the world is a charter school? The bottom line is that
1:22.2	the majority of states have them, 47, so the vast majority of states have them. Also, the District of Columbia,
1:28.6	charter schools allow for private initiative in terms of the founding and organization and
1:36.5	culture of a school that is still funded with taxpayer money. And so at this point, they are
1:41.5	clearly defined, certainly explicitly in most states, as public schools.
1:46.0	They are an extension of the public school movement.
1:49.6	The innovation in charter schools has been one of the big stories.
1:52.8	But I also want to step back as a Christian and say, you know, there are situations in which some of these charter schools have genuinely represented educational innovation and recovery
2:02.4	in a very good way to be celebrated by conservatives. Conservatives should look at the
2:07.0	charter school movement and say, at least in part, it has allowed in many cases, at least
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