Wednesday, April 26, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 26 April 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 10:08)
Here We Go Again? Campaign 2024 Takes Shape as President Biden Announces Campaign for Second Term
- Biden Has Held the Fewest News Conferences Since Reagan. Any Questions? by New York Times (Michael D. Shear)
Part II (10:08 - 15:12)
A Campaign Built on a Radical Redefinition of Freedom: President Joe Biden’s Presidential Campaign Reveal Shows His Evolution on Some of Our Culture’s Biggest Moral Issues
Part III (15:12 - 26:17)
An Astounding Moment in Church History: Conservative Anglicans Break from Archbishop of Canterbury Over Blessings of Same-Sex Unions
- Conservative Anglicans Call for Break With Archbishop of Canterbury Over Same-Sex Blessings by Wall Street Journal (Francis X. Rocca)
- Justin Welby rejected as leader by conservative Anglicans over same-sex blessings by BBC (Harry Farley)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, April 26, 2023. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from |
| 0:12.3 | a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Well we knew he's going to do it. |
| 0:15.0 | Now he says he's going to do it. |
| 0:16.4 | Joe Biden announced yesterday that he is running for re-election to a second term as president |
| 0:21.0 | of the United States. |
| 0:23.1 | President Biden did not make this announcement in a formal speech. |
| 0:26.1 | He made it in the release of a video. |
| 0:29.3 | And it is a precedent-breaking event because there is no president who has ever been this |
| 0:33.6 | old much less his run for re-election. |
| 0:36.1 | If indeed President Biden were to be elected to a second term and were to fulfill it, he |
| 0:41.0 | would be 86 years of age when his second term came to a conclusion. |
| 0:46.2 | Obviously, huge questions about this. |
| 0:48.8 | It's an historical development just to have a president announced that he's running for |
| 0:52.3 | re-election. |
| 0:53.3 | Not that that's unusual in itself. |
| 0:55.2 | It is generally considered these days that a president who does not successfully serve |
| 1:00.0 | a second term is an historical liability just in terms of influence and power, even rankings |
| 1:06.6 | among presidents. |
| 1:07.9 | A one-termer is often referred to as something of a placeholder in American politics. |
| 1:12.9 | And yet Joe Biden, who was expected to be just that, and who actually gave indications |
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