Tuesday, March 4, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 4 March 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 09:05)
The Share of Christians in the U.S. Has Stabilized? – Pew Releases Updated Findings of Its Religious Landscape Study
- After years of decline, share of Christians in U.S. has stabilized by The Washington Post (Emily Guskin)
Part II (09:05 - 16:04)
Religious People Trend Toward Conservatism: Pew Research Center Affirms Influence of Theology on Political Beliefs
Part III (16:04 - 18:28)
Can Christians Retain Their Own Young People? Christians Face a Big Challenge in a Highly Secular Society That is Capturing More and More Young People
- Designating English as the Official Language of The United States by The White House
- What Trump’s order making English the official language in the U.S. could mean by The LA Times (Fernanda Figueroa)
Part IV (18:28 - 26:25)
English is Now the Official Language of the U.S. – What Does It Mean? Equally Important, What Does It Not Mean?
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, March 4, 2025. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Mowler, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Sometimes it's hard to know exactly what to do with vast surveys and statistical information. |
| 0:19.0 | Sometimes it tells us what is obvious. Sometimes it tells us |
| 0:23.2 | something that's false. Sometimes the data come in and the picture is truly interesting. That's what |
| 0:30.0 | has taken place with the release just days ago of a Pew Research Center report known as the |
| 0:35.1 | Religious Landscape Study. This survey was first undertaken in 2007. |
| 0:40.3 | It's a part of the legacy of Jay Howard Pew and the Pew family who established the Pew Charitable Trust. |
| 0:46.3 | The Pew Research Center is a major representation of that family's philanthropy. |
| 0:50.3 | It's a very credible research organization. |
| 0:53.3 | The Religious Lands landscape study begun, |
| 0:55.9 | as I said, in 2007 really has shown a lot of change on the American religious landscape. |
| 1:02.1 | The word landscape here is more than just indicative. The word landscape really does |
| 1:07.0 | describe what we're looking at. We're trying to get a big picture of what's going on |
| 1:11.2 | religiously in our world, and in particular, in this case, within the United States. Now, the big |
| 1:17.1 | headline in terms of the most recent of these surveys just out is this as reported in the |
| 1:22.8 | Washington Post, quote, after years of decline, share of Christians in U.S. has stabilized. |
| 1:29.2 | Well, that's really interesting because the big story since 2007 has been the relative |
| 1:34.1 | decline of Christianity, church attendance, church membership in the United States. |
| 1:39.6 | The big rise has not been in non-Christian religion, so to speak. |
| 1:43.8 | The big rise has been in those |
| 1:45.6 | who are described as religiously unaffiliated. And now famously, they are known as the nuns, |
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