Thursday, October 26, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 26 October 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 06:40)
Good News for the House of Representatives: Conservative Mike Johnson Named Speaker of the House
Part II (06:40 - 22:45)
The New Axis of Evil: Are We Ready to Defend Our Civilization?
- The new axis of evil: Are we ready to defend our civilization? by WORLD (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.)
Part III (22:45 - 26:53)
More Than 40 State Attorneys General Sue Meta for Harm to Teens: In Warning Call to Parents, Lawsuit Exposes Harm and Addictive Traits of Social Media to Teenagers
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, October 26, 2023. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from |
| 0:12.0 | a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.7 | Good news out of Washington, D.C. |
| 0:15.8 | Most importantly, the United States of America has a speaker of the House of Representatives. |
| 0:21.2 | It came yesterday. |
| 0:22.8 | When Representative Mike Johnson of Louisiana first elected to the House in 2016 was elected |
| 0:29.7 | by virtually all members of the Republican Conference. |
| 0:32.8 | It's a big, big step. |
| 0:35.1 | And even as he achieved the requisite number of votes, we remember he was the fourth individual |
| 0:40.6 | to be nominated for that post by the House Majority of Republicans just in the last three |
| 0:46.8 | or four weeks since the toppling of the former Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy of |
| 0:51.3 | California. |
| 0:52.6 | So it's good news that we have a speaker of the House. |
| 0:54.4 | It's good news for a number of reasons. |
| 0:56.5 | Number one, it's good news because the House of Representatives cannot act without a |
| 1:01.5 | speaker. |
| 1:02.5 | That's something a lot of Americans had not understood and frankly may not understand |
| 1:06.9 | now. |
| 1:07.9 | The speaker of the House fulfills a very important constitutional role. |
| 1:11.7 | The Constitution calls for this office and of course puts it in the line of presidential |
| 1:15.9 | succession. |
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