Tuesday, April 11, 2023

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

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

Part I (00:13 - 15:31)
A Political Parable of Our Cultural Age: Chicago’s Mayoral Election

You Can’t Throw the Bums Out if You’ve Voted With Your Feet by Wall Street Journal (Allysia Finley)
As ominous clouds gather over Chicago, progressivism marches on by Washington Post (Jim Geraghty)
Chicago Gets What It Voted For by Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board)

Part II (15:31 - 21:05)
(Some) Comstock Laws Are Still in Effect?: A New Revelation Dawns on the Political Left

Part III (21:05 - 23:09)
A Very Dark Day in Kentucky: Unspeakable Tragedy in Louisville Yesterday

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0:00.0	It's Tuesday, April 11, 2023.
0:08.0	I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from
0:12.3	a Christian worldview.
0:14.0	When it comes to worldview, geography matters, and I often describe this in terms of a series
0:18.9	of words that begin with C, the closer you get to a coast, the closer you get to a city,
0:22.9	the closer you get to a campus, will the closer you get to moral progressivism or liberalism,
0:29.2	the coast, the campus, the city.
0:31.5	And you could add some other words as well.
0:33.4	The point is, the closer you get to the cultural creatives, the closer you get to the coast,
0:39.0	and yes, the cities turn out to be far more liberal, not only in terms of contemporary American
0:44.9	culture, but throughout most of history.
0:47.7	By the way, one theme of biblical theology is how the city is considered in the Old Testament
0:52.9	and in the New Testament.
0:54.9	In the Old Testament, there is an almost exclusively negative view of the city.
1:00.3	The city is seen as a cesspool of sin, a city is seen as a place of human arrogance.
1:05.1	The city is condemned by the prophets for their unbelief, for their lust, you go down the
1:09.9	entire series, injustice, unrighteousness.
1:13.3	But there is a shift in the New Testament, and that shift in the New Testament, by the way,
1:17.7	also at least has an analogy in the fact that Jerusalem is described not only in terms
1:23.4	of its prophetic identity and its geographical and geographical significance, but also an
1:28.9	anticipation of a New Jerusalem in which the kingdom of Christ actually is described,
1:34.1	at least in part, in terms of a redeemed city.
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