Vanishing Adulthood and the American Moment: A Conversation with Senator Ben Sasse
Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2017
⏱️ 55 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about |
| 0:08.8 | frontline theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Albert Moller, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary |
| 0:16.8 | in Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 0:18.5 | Ben Sass is the junior United States senator from Nebraska, before being elected to the Senate in 2014, |
| 0:24.5 | he taught history at the University of Texas, served as an Assistant Secretary in |
| 0:28.8 | the United States Department of Health and Human Services, and was President of Midland University in Fremont, Nebraska. |
| 0:35.4 | He holds a doctorate in history from Yale University. |
| 0:38.3 | His doctoral dissertation won the Theron Rockwell Field Prize for Best Dissertation and the George Washington |
| 0:43.8 | Eggleston Historical Prize. |
| 0:45.8 | He is also a graduate of St. John's College and Harvard College. |
| 0:50.2 | He has been executive director of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. |
| 0:54.0 | During that tenure, he co-edited a book with the late James Montgomery Boyce entitled, |
| 0:58.4 | Here We Stand, a call from Confessing Evangelicals. |
| 1:02.0 | His latest book is one of the most interesting I think |
| 1:04.8 | to have ever been written by a sitting United States senator. The title, The Vanishing |
| 1:09.7 | American Adult, Our Coming of Age Crisis, and how to rebuild a culture of self-reliance. |
| 1:16.0 | Senator Sass, welcome to thinking in public. |
| 1:18.7 | Senator Sass, this is a very unusual book, an especially unusual book to be written by a member of the United States Senate. |
| 1:25.5 | You tell the story of why you came to write the book. |
| 1:30.0 | Is this the book you intended to write? |
| 1:33.0 | Intended, yes, since 2012 or 13 when I first started chewing on it. |
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