Tuesday, September 2, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 2 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.2 | America's heart was broken yet again last week with a mass shooting that killed two elementary school children and injured 18 others and beyond that |
| 0:22.6 | three adults. It took place at Annunciation Catholic School and Annunciation Catholic Church. |
| 0:28.4 | You have to say both because the shooting actually took place while the children and their teachers |
| 0:32.9 | were in the church for a mass to mark the beginning of the school year. Two precious little children, |
| 0:40.0 | an eight-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl were killed in the mass shooting, and then 18 were |
| 0:45.6 | injured, at least some of them critically, although at this point authorities in Minneapolis say |
| 0:50.7 | they expect them to survive. But once again, we are looking at one of the most |
| 0:55.9 | brutal crimes imaginable. And the premeditated nature of this crime underlines the fact that there |
| 1:00.9 | is so much darkness in some human hearts. And some people, in biblical terms, simply give themselves |
| 1:06.6 | over to sin. They dive into sin. They give themselves to sin, and that's exactly what we see here. |
| 1:15.0 | And of course, as we came to know more about this particular tragedy, we also came to know more |
| 1:21.2 | about the shooter. Given policy of trying not to identify shooters in order to give them |
| 1:26.2 | publicity, I'm simply going to use first names. |
| 1:28.9 | But I will tell you, when the story broke, almost immediately there was a great deal of confusion. |
| 1:33.5 | The confusion came down to pronouns more than anything else. It was almost certain at the time |
| 1:39.2 | that the news was really breaking last week that the shooter was a 23-year-old young man. |
| 1:46.6 | And yet, the pronouns got mixed almost immediately. NPR's report said he. Other major |
| 1:52.3 | reports said she. We're talking about one person. Which is it? Well, this is a male. |
| 1:59.1 | The shooter in this case had the given name of Robert. Late in his teens, |
| 2:03.5 | he changed the name with the cooperation of his mother, whom authorities are seeking. His name was |
| 2:10.1 | changed to Robin, thus embracing a transgender identity. The mother on one of the legal forms actually |
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