Wednesday, February 11, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:14 – 13:21)
Gambling and the Corruption of Sports: We are Looking at a Moral Crisis in Sports
- Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling by Simon and Schuster (Danny Funt)
- Basketball’s Game-Fixing Scandal Now Includes 17 U.S. Colleges—and China’s Pro League by The Wall Street Journal (Jared Diamond and Louise Radnofsky)
‘This is Gambling’: The Prediction Markets Are Turning Into Just Another Form of Gambling
- All bets are on by Deseret News (Ethan Bauer)
Gambling Aims Younger and Younger: This is Intentional, and Sports Gambling is Particularly Attractive to Men and Young Men
- Super Bowl is betting bonanza. Behind the scenes apps are busting kids by USA Today (Nick Penzenstadler and Carlie Procell)
Even Secularists Know We Have a Sports Gambling Problem: Christians Cannot Continue to Ignore This Crisis
Part V (22:41 – 25:33)
Do Sports Fans Even Care About Gambling? There is a Dangerous Denial of Evil Here
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, February 11, 2026. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, you can pretty much bet on the fact that there was a lot of betting, a lot of gambling associated most recently with the Super Bowl. |
| 0:22.5 | Super Bowl 60 brought an unprecedented level of gambling, but it also brought some very |
| 0:27.3 | interesting shifts on the landscape of gambling in the United States and beyond. We're talking |
| 0:33.0 | about big, big money, and we're talking about big, big numbers, and we're almost assuredly |
| 0:37.0 | talking about someone you know, because and we're almost assuredly talking about |
| 0:37.6 | someone you know. Because what has happened since the Supreme Court decision going back to 2018 |
| 0:43.9 | is that gambling has now spread to virtually all states in one form or another, although |
| 0:49.4 | there are some states that still restrict many forms of gambling in their own jurisdictions. The reality is, |
| 0:55.8 | nonetheless, that gambling is coming for you, and I think a lot of Christians are unaware of how |
| 1:00.5 | this is happening. And there are some particular vulnerabilities, and the most particular right now |
| 1:06.3 | would be the population of teenage boys and young men, and they are right now being recruited into a world of gambling big time |
| 1:15.2 | because that industry sees them as the possibility for big winnings in the future. |
| 1:22.1 | So let's talk about the Super Bowl. |
| 1:24.2 | A couple of interesting things about Super Bowl 60. |
| 1:26.2 | For one thing, it is anticipated that |
| 1:28.5 | once it is known, or at least quantified in some credible sense, how much in total was bet on |
| 1:35.7 | the game or different aspects of the game, it's almost assuredly going to be a number that |
| 1:40.9 | previous generations could not have ever imagined. Now, you also have the reality. |
| 1:46.6 | There's this tremendous moral shift in sports. And this means in collegiate sports. It also means |
| 1:52.5 | in the professional sports. You've got this enormous shift. Many of the leagues, for instance, |
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