Wednesday, February 5, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 5 February 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 09:41)
A Generation of Young Adults That Never Grows Up: The Reaping of the World of Modernity is the Fall of Western Civilization as We Know It
- What Happens When a Whole Generation Never Grows Up? by The Wall Street Journal (Rachel Wolfe)
Part II (09:41 - 16:56)
The Church is A Counter Culture: The Hope for the Restoration of Society is Only Found Through the Obedience to the Gospel by Local Church
Part III (16:56 - 26:22)
Secretary of State Rubio’s Trip to Panama: Trump and Rubio Send Strong Message to Panama About Adversarial Control of the Panama Canal
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, February 5, 2025. I'm Albert Mowler, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.9 | So what happens when a whole generation never grows up? That question was recently asked by the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:20.7 | Now, there are crises, |
| 0:21.8 | and then there are crises. There are challenges, and then there are challenges. We see things |
| 0:26.8 | that concern us, and then we see things that concern us at an even deeper level. You can't get any |
| 0:31.4 | deeper than this level. When we're talking about an entire generation, not growing up, we're looking at a civilizational crisis. |
| 0:41.2 | Now, the Wall Street Journal is looking in particular at 30-somethings because the data keep rolling |
| 0:46.2 | in about 30-somethings telling us that that generation is markedly different than the generations |
| 0:52.5 | before it. And by the way, some of the generations |
| 0:54.9 | younger than, say, the 30-somethings alive today, they're following some of the same patterns |
| 1:00.0 | of the 30-somethings. They're not moving into adulthood. They're not achieving the usual markers |
| 1:05.3 | of adulthood. They're not entering into marriage. They are not having children. They're not |
| 1:10.4 | buying homes as previous generations had at the same age. |
| 1:15.2 | Now, when you look at this and you see even a newspaper like the Wall Street Journal raising the alarm, you're talking about a crisis here. There's no denial of that. |
| 1:24.9 | The question is, how did it happen? What does it mean? |
| 1:28.6 | Is there any way out of it? |
| 1:30.1 | So how did it happen? |
| 1:31.0 | That's a great question. |
| 1:36.8 | There are a lot of people who are arguing that what happened is that the economy changed in such ways that it became more difficult for young people to achieve the same kind of incomes |
| 1:42.0 | as their parents at the same age, and thus economic disadvantage has made it more difficult to buy a house, more difficult to achieve the same kind of incomes as their parents at the same age, and thus economic disadvantage has made it more difficult to buy a house, |
| 1:47.0 | more difficult to achieve many of these landmarks of adulthood. |
| 1:52.0 | But as the Wall Street Journal, and let's just point out, |
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