Wednesday, August 31, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 03:21)
One of the 20th Century’s Most Influential Lives in World Politics Comes to An End: Mikhail Gorbachev Dies at 91 — And We Await Russia’s ResponsePart II (03:21 - 15:27)
EuroPride Festival Brought to Screeching Halt in Serbia — Where You Find Historic, Orthodox Christianity, You Find a Society That Knows God’s Intention for Gender, Sexuality, and FamilyPart III (15:27 - 20:42)
What Happens When Identity Politics Turns on the Sexual Revolution? Harry Styles Gets Accused of ‘Queerbaiting’Harry Styles Accused of 'Queerbaiting.' What is That – and Why Does It Matter? by USA Today (David Oliver)Part IV (20:42 - 23:25)
‘We’re a Part of the Abortion Movement Too’: Trans Men Meet Ontological Obstacles as They Demand Recognition from Abortion Movement 'We're a Part of This Movement, Too.' Transgender and Nonbinary People Say They Feel Excluded from the Abortion Fight by CNN (Jacquelyne Germain)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, August 31st, 2022. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing. |
| 0:10.4 | A daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Yesterday, Russian state news agencies announced the death of Mikhail Gorbachev. |
| 0:19.0 | He had been the last president of the USSR, and also the last general Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. |
| 0:27.8 | By any measure he lived one of the most important lives in the 20th century as we think about world affairs. |
| 0:34.3 | It was Mikhail Gorbachev, who was at the helm of the Soviet Union when it eventually dissipated |
| 0:40.3 | and dissolved. |
| 0:41.6 | An unexpected development just in terms of the Cold War and the flow of world |
| 0:46.6 | history, even as the Soviet Union was about to collapse, it was difficult to believe that |
| 0:51.6 | it might be so. But Mikhail Gorbachev is also one of the most |
| 0:55.5 | debated personalities of the 20th century. His historical legacy is debated because on both sides of the |
| 1:02.3 | equation, on both sides of the equation on both sides of the Cold War in the |
| 1:05.2 | free nations the United States and its allies and in the former Soviet Union |
| 1:09.5 | and that includes most importantly Russia and its allies the big question is who exactly |
| 1:15.5 | was Mikhail Gorbachev and was he a traitor to the Soviet Union or was he a liberator in the name of freedom? Well we're going to be looking more |
| 1:24.5 | closely at this tomorrow because one of the other big issues we need to |
| 1:28.4 | consider and to which we need to pay attention is the response to the |
| 1:32.2 | announcement of Mikhail Gorbachev's death. |
| 1:35.0 | The most interesting response to watch for will be response coming from what used to be the |
| 1:40.0 | Soviet Union or the heart of the Soviet Union, the capital of the Soviet Union, Moscow, what is |
| 1:45.8 | going to come from Vladimir Putin's Russia? |
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