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🗓️ 9 May 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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0:00.0 | It's Thursday, May 9, 2024. |
0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
0:13.0 | Sometimes things happen and all of a sudden you realize that's the world we're now living in. |
0:18.0 | It's a fundamentally changed world, and for Christians, it's at least a baseline truth that if the world has changed, we better know it. |
0:25.0 | It's a good thing to know. |
0:27.0 | And when it comes to Christians, it's important that we know where we stand in the midst of this culture. But when I say this culture there are at least several |
0:35.5 | concentric circles we could be talking about. We could be talking about the United States of America. We could also |
0:41.1 | be talking about a wider circle and that's why today we're going to be talking about Western civilization and we're going to be talking about the nation of Scotland in this light. |
0:49.0 | Part of the United Kingdom, Scotland is one of those nations that has radically secularized and quite frankly |
0:55.3 | it's done so in a rather remarkably short period of time and so when you think of |
1:00.6 | Scotland you think about of course it's ancient and medieval history. |
1:05.4 | You think about its ancient university such as St Andrews and Aberdeen. |
1:09.6 | You think about the Roman Catholic history of Scotland and then you think about the |
1:15.2 | reformation and its legacy in Scotland and you think about the rise of |
1:19.2 | Presbyterianism and of course the English-speaking reform tradition and you start thinking about |
1:24.4 | the importance of Scotland Scottish preacher Scottish theology to the |
1:27.9 | Protestant tradition but then we also need to recognize that as you look at Scotland |
1:32.3 | today we are seeing that |
1:33.7 | radically secularized reality. We're talking about a society that seems just |
1:39.0 | about determined to eliminate any vestige of Christian influence from public life, and that means of course from government. |
1:46.2 | And all that came to light in recent weeks, given political tumult there in Scotland, the fall of one government and the rise of another the necessity of the |
1:55.9 | majority party or at least a coalition that would lead to a parliamentary majority electing |
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