Tuesday, October 7, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 7 October 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:14 – 15:19)
Yet Another Prime Minister Resigns: France is in a Deep, Deep Political Crisis
Part II (15:19 – 19:50)
Will Japan Have Its First Woman Prime Minister? The Likely First Woman Prime Minister in Japan, Like Margaret Thatcher In Britain, Is a Conservative
Part III (19:50 – 27:09)
Creation Order Asserts Itself: The Life and Work of Jane Goodall in Perspective
- Jane Goodall, Who Chronicled the Social Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91 by The New York Times (Keith Schneider)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, October 7, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.8 | Well, there are government shutdowns, and well, there are government shutdowns. I don't want to speak so much about the one in the United States. I want to turn to France, |
| 0:21.1 | where it's an absolute collapse of the government. It was announced yesterday that Prime Minister |
| 0:26.1 | Sebastian Le Corneux has resigned as Prime Minister of France after less than a month on the job. Now, |
| 0:31.7 | he is the third Prime Minister in a year. The administration of French President Emmanuel Macron is clearly in trouble, |
| 0:39.5 | and France is in trouble, and we're looking at a crisis, but it's a deeper crisis than just |
| 0:45.1 | the fact that the prime minister, the last prime minister, Mr. LeCourn-Hugh, was unable to function |
| 0:51.1 | immediately after announcing his cabinet. And for one thing, his cabinet was a lie |
| 0:55.5 | because it had been promised that there was going to be a shuffling of the decks. You're going to |
| 1:00.0 | have new people brought into the administration. And instead, it was basically a shuffling of the |
| 1:04.6 | decks, as in some of the very people that opposing parties wanted out of the government just |
| 1:08.9 | ended up with a different title. |
| 1:15.6 | Political plausibility failed. But there are some deeper lessons here. It's a fascinating history and some deeper lessons. The shutdown of the American government, let's just be clear, |
| 1:20.8 | it's not really a shutdown of the government. The political process is going on. As a matter of fact, |
| 1:24.7 | this little drama is a political play undertaken with |
| 1:29.6 | politics every bit as much in operation as in any other day of the year, perhaps even more so. |
| 1:35.9 | And you'll also notice that the strategic nature of the American government shutdown is that |
| 1:41.1 | the government is actually functioning in all of its core functions. The United States |
| 1:45.7 | military is still very much, you know, in service, ready for deployment. And other things are going |
| 1:51.8 | on like Social Security. This is something of a political game. Now, in one sense, it is constitutionally |
| 1:57.4 | a necessary game, but it's a game and that's enough said for today. We'll see |
| 2:01.7 | where the game goes tomorrow. The point is that in France, it's not a game. We're talking about |
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