Thursday, May 15, 2025

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 15 May 2025

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Summary

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

Part I (00:14 - 09:13)
Pete Rose Removed from ‘Permanently Ineligible’ List for Major League Baseball. Hall of Fame Next? Commissioner’s Recent Statement Raises Big Moral Questions

A Letter from Commissioner Manfred to Jeffrey M. Lenkov by Major League Baseball Office of the Commissioner (Robert D. Manfred Jr.)

Part II (09:13 - 16:16)
Russia’s New ‘Frankenstein’ Missile: Russia’s Latest Missile is Sign of the Times, and Things to Come

Russia’s new ‘Frankenstein’ missile terrorising Ukraine by The Telegraph (Iona Cleave)

Part III (16:16 - 25:28)
The Prophet of Soft Power: Influential Political Scientist and National Security Official Joseph Nye, Dies at 88

Joseph Nye, Political Scientist Who Extolled ‘Soft Power,’ Dies at 88 by The New York Times (Trip Gabriel)

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, May 15, 2025. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:14.1	Sometimes big worldview and moral issues explode just basically out of nowhere and affecting all dimensions of life. No dimension of
0:22.6	life Christians understand is immune from this kind of development. Even something as, say,
0:27.8	every day as baseball can all of a sudden become a major moral question. That certainly became true
0:33.3	this week when the commissioner of baseball, Robert D. Manfred Jr. released a considerable statement
0:39.5	in the form of a letter to attorneys for the family of Pete Rose basically saying that the
0:47.1	commissioner of baseball was washing his hands of the situation about whether or not Pete Rose
0:52.9	should be, for example, put into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
0:57.1	Now, that's not exactly what this letter addresses, but that is exactly what this letter addresses.
1:03.0	So what's the background here?
1:04.3	Well, the background has to do with the fact that when it comes to sin, even Major League Baseball recognizes some sins.
1:13.7	Now, let's just say that the sins that are of concerned in Major League Baseball are not so much the sins of the flesh, not so much, say,
1:18.7	disobedience to parents, not so much, well, you can just go down the list. They're very much
1:24.6	about gambling. And at least that has been historically the case because
1:28.2	there have been some massive scandals having to do with gambling that threaten the very
1:32.5	existence of baseball as any kind of enterprise, any kind of respectable organization, any kind
1:38.2	of respectable business. And so early in the 20th century, there was an extreme crisis and
1:43.0	over the issue of gambling. And baseball
1:46.0	basically reconstituted itself on the other side by putting up a barrier to persons inside the
1:52.5	sport. In particular, you could say even the owners of the teams, but more crucially, the managers
1:57.0	of the teams, people who worked in the organizations, and specifically the players,
2:01.9	could not be involved in any kind of gambling that might compromise the sport of baseball.
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