Tuesday, September 23, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses Vladimir Putin’s increased aggression towards NATO, the Left’s hatred of complementarianism, the need for Protestant Evangelicals to raise stronger families, and ‘performative men.’
Part I (00:14 – 11:14)
Putin’s New Aggression: Russia’s President is Pushing the Boundaries with NATO
- The Kremlin’s plot to kill NATO’s credibility by The Economist
So Complementarianism is Harsh Now? Our Culture is Taking Aim at 2,000 Years of Biblical Conviction
- How segments of Christianity overlap with the manosphere and what it means for women by USA Today (Marc Ramirez)
A Call to Raise Faithful Families: Protestant Evangelicals Need Stronger and Bigger Families
Part IV (24:41 – 26:32)
The Rise and Impending Fall of ‘Performative Men’: Men, Don’t Stoop to Impress the Women Who Don’t Want to Get Married
- They drink matcha, dabble in photography and love Joan Didion. Meet the ‘performative men’ by USA Today (Charles Trepany)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.2 | Sometimes warfare and tactics and strategy develop over a long period of time. Sometimes a major shift in warfare takes place in just an instant. |
| 0:23.3 | You can look at one particular development, a very short amount of time. Everything seems to be |
| 0:28.7 | changed. I'll just give you one date. That date, December the 10th, 1941. Now, many of you |
| 0:34.6 | are thinking, well, Pearl Harbor was three days earlier, December the 7th, 1941. |
| 0:39.5 | President Roosevelt said that was a date that would live in infamy. |
| 0:42.2 | And, of course, it did, marking America's formal entree into World War II. |
| 0:47.6 | But you also have to note that just three days later, in the Pacific Theater, in what became known as the Naval Battle of |
| 0:54.2 | Melee, two British battleships were sunk, the HMS Prince of Wales and the HMS repulse. |
| 1:01.4 | That was the day those two massive battleships, which were such symbolic representations |
| 1:07.1 | of British naval power, that's when they were sunk in one day. |
| 1:10.4 | And the big issue was not that they were sunk, but how they were sunk. |
| 1:13.5 | They were sunk as a result of aerial bombardment from aircraft deployed by Imperial Japan. |
| 1:20.4 | So Japanese bombers sank two British battleships, and just a short amount of time in one place and one battle, and that changed |
| 1:28.5 | warfare as we know it. Why? It is because British naval strategy was centered on the power |
| 1:34.8 | of those giant battleships, and the naval doctrine said that only a massive opposing naval |
| 1:41.6 | force could eventually knock out those battleships. It was not considered |
| 1:45.6 | possible that the battleships were vulnerable to aerial bombardment until all of a sudden they were. |
| 1:50.9 | And from that point onward, they were largely neutralized, at least in terms of the developments |
| 1:55.7 | of naval history. Once you had aerial bombardments and the ability from the air to destroy those massive battleships, |
| 2:02.8 | warfare, as we know it, was changed. It was redefined. It would take some time for all of the |
| 2:07.1 | realignment to take place, but let's just say that at that point, basically no one's saying |
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