Tuesday, December 16, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:14 – 11:32)
Horrible Attacks on Bondi Beach and at Brown University: The Casualties Mount, and the Issues Rage
Part II (11:32 – 17:11)
The Problem of Islam: This is Not Just a Problem of a Lack of Assimilation
Part III (17:11 – 20:56)
Religious Liberty in Canada is Dying: A Change in Canada’s Religious Exemption Law Would Allow the Bible to Be Labeled as Hate Speech
Part IV (20:56 – 25:35)
The Return to Times New Roman: The State Department Establishes Times New Roman as Its Official Typeface – It Matters More Than You Might Think
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, December 16, 2025. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | The scene of horror unfolded on one of the iconic beaches of Australia over the weekend |
| 0:19.0 | when two shooters began attacking a group of people |
| 0:23.6 | gathered for a Hanukkah celebration, part of the Jewish community there. There were some other |
| 0:28.8 | guests as well. But at least as of now, 16 persons were killed and several others were wounded. |
| 0:36.6 | The victims included a 10-year-old child, a little girl, |
| 0:40.5 | along with a rabbi, and a Holocaust survivor. Survived the Holocaust only to die in this onslaught that |
| 0:48.4 | unfolded on Bondi Beach. We are looking here at something that is now becoming a pattern, even a pattern of recent |
| 0:56.4 | days, not to mention a pattern of years, and as I'm going to argue, a pattern of centuries. |
| 1:01.0 | What we're looking at here is a far bigger question than many people want to acknowledge. |
| 1:08.0 | It has to do with the openness of Western societies. It has to do with the conflict |
| 1:13.9 | between the West and Islam. It has to do with the practical problems of mass immigration. |
| 1:21.8 | And there are very few who want to talk about these things out loud. I think that that is our |
| 1:26.7 | responsibility. Now, |
| 1:29.1 | the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal at least hinted at this in a piece they ran about |
| 1:34.5 | various attacks and arrests made in various places. They mentioned not only the mass shooting there |
| 1:40.5 | on Bandai Beach and Australia aimed at the Jewish community, no question, and it is |
| 1:45.7 | suspected that there were Islamic shooters, a father and a son. And then you look at the fact that |
| 1:51.0 | last Friday, German police arrested five men, three Moroccans, a Syrian, and an Egyptian, |
| 1:57.9 | as the journal said, quote, on suspicion of planning an attack on a Christmas market. |
| 2:02.5 | There are other things. And so you have other headlines that are all put together here, |
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