Tuesday, May 23, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 23 May 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 17:15)
Are Morals Just Values? Does Moral Truth Change by Consensus? Confronting the Political and Moral Challenge of Communitarianism
- GOP’s Presidential Candidate Must Find America’s Moral Center by Wall Street Journal (William A. Galston)
Part II (17:15 - 24:01)
Let’s Test the Theory of the Middle Ground: Case Study Number One, Bud Light
- How Bud Light Blew It by Wall Street Journal (Jennifer Maloney)
- Bud Light maker stripped of LGBTQ+ rating for caving to Dylan Mulvaney backlash by USA Today (Jessica Guynn)
Part III (24:01 - 28:55)
Let’s Test the Theory of the Middle Ground: Case Study Number Two, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in Dodger Stadium
- Dodgers Reverse Course and Reinvite Group to Pride Night by New York Times (Benjamin Hoffman)
- Dodgers apologize and invite Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to Pride Night by LA Times (Steve Henson and Sonja Sharp)
- The Dodgers faltered by disinviting the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence but came to their senses by LA Times (LZ Granderson)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, May 23, 2023. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from |
| 0:12.7 | a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.5 | I want us to take on one of the biggest questions in terms of Christian worldview thinking |
| 0:18.7 | today, and we need to do this. |
| 0:20.7 | It's timely because of so many issues in the headlines and direct moral arguments about |
| 0:25.4 | how to make moral arguments, and how we know moral truth, or whether we can know moral |
| 0:30.6 | truth. |
| 0:31.6 | I want us to take a look first at a column that ran in recent days in the Wall Street |
| 0:35.8 | journal. |
| 0:36.8 | Again, very important, very influential newspaper. |
| 0:39.8 | The space in that newspaper comes at a premium. |
| 0:42.0 | They do not run frivolous articles. |
| 0:44.2 | This is a very serious article. |
| 0:46.2 | It's an opinion article by William A. Galston, the Brookings Institution, and the headline |
| 0:51.2 | in the article is this, GOP, that is Republicans presidential candidate, must find America's |
| 0:56.8 | moral center. |
| 0:58.5 | The subhead on the article is this, the one that means the candidate with more moderate |
| 1:02.7 | views will find himself at the front of the pack. |
| 1:05.7 | Now I want to start out by saying, I don't think this is good advice to Republicans, but |
| 1:09.9 | nonetheless, there's a serious moral argument that is being made here. |
| 1:13.8 | It's also a serious argument about political strategy. |
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