Thursday, September 11, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:14 – 11:10)
A Day That Will Shape a Generation: The Murder of Charlie Kirk
- A most tragic turning point: The assassination of Charlie Kirk and a generational call by WORLD Opinions (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.)
Utah Governor Spencer Cox Was Right: Charlie Kirk was a Victim of Political Assassination
- Free speech and ‘assassination culture’: Charlie Kirk, 1993-2025 by The Washington Post (The Editorial Board)
An Anniversary of Another American Tragedy: Today Marks the 24th Anniversary of Those Heinous 9/11 Attacks
Part IV (21:20 – 26:16)
These Attacks in the U.S. Put Moral Relativism to Death: Woe to the Society That Lacks the Conviction to Call Out Evil For What It Is
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, September 11, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.8 | In every generation, there are historic moments that are never forgotten. And when you look at generation by generation in the United States, of course, |
| 0:22.1 | this goes back even to the Battle of Bunker Hill. You can go down the list. And then, of course, |
| 0:27.9 | at one point, it was remember the Alamo? At another point, it was remember Pearl Harbor. |
| 0:33.2 | And then in the 1960s, when I was a boy, it was multiple assassinations, first of John F. Kennedy, |
| 0:38.5 | the president of the United States, and then Martin Luther King, Jr., and then Robert F. Kennedy, |
| 0:43.3 | the president's brother, the very ninth he won the California Democratic primary. |
| 0:48.4 | Of course, when these things happen, the immediate question is, what does this mean? |
| 0:51.5 | What kind of country are we? What does this say about who we are? |
| 0:55.2 | How does this fit into our American identity? What does this say about American culture? And of course, |
| 1:00.7 | today is September the 11th reminding us that today, this very day is the 24th anniversary of the |
| 1:07.1 | attacks by al-Qaeda, the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. |
| 1:12.2 | More about that in just a moment. |
| 1:13.6 | But the point I want to make now is that the generation of those living at the time, and in |
| 1:18.8 | particular those who were young at the time, it is a searing memory. |
| 1:23.8 | They will never get over. |
| 1:25.5 | Certainly never forget. |
| 1:26.8 | It becomes a formative experience. And then |
| 1:28.9 | yesterday in Utah, another generational shaping event, an event that raises basic questions about |
| 1:36.5 | American culture and who we are. The assassination of Charlie Kirk, conservative activist, |
| 1:43.4 | organizer, spokesman debater. He was on an American |
| 1:46.7 | college campus, in this case, the campus of Utah Valley University. And he was doing what he loved to do |
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