Wednesday, June 1, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 1 June 2022
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 16:09)
Who is and is Not an Adult? How Can You Tell? Evaluating Our Contemporary Confusion over the Definition of AdulthoodWhy Do We Let Children Buy Firearms? by Washington Post (Ruth Marcus)Part II (16:09 - 19:31)
‘When I Became a Man, I Put Away Childish Things’: The Biblical Concept of AdulthoodPart III (19:31 - 27:36)
Wall Street Journal Feature Argues for the Strategic Use of A Curse Word or Two to Increase the Strength of Your Online Reviews — But How About the Moral Use of Words?Why Cursing in Online Reviews Can Actually Be a Good Thing by Wall Street Journal (Katherine C. Lafreniere and Sarah G. Moore)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, June 1st, 2022. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
| 0:11.7 | from a Christian worldview. We have to use |
| 0:14.4 | certain words in our cultural vocabulary in our everyday speech if we're going to |
| 0:19.0 | make sense and among those words are child and adult. |
| 0:23.4 | And we use them as if we actually mean something. |
| 0:26.0 | But often we need to step back and ask the question, |
| 0:28.4 | exactly who do we believe is a child? |
| 0:30.6 | When does a child become an adult? |
| 0:32.3 | What kind of middle or transformative phase is between |
| 0:35.5 | childhood and adulthood? Why does it all matter? There are a lot of issues for us to |
| 0:40.6 | consider here, but the reason we're talking about this issue today on the briefing |
| 0:44.9 | is because of an argument that came up about proposed gun control in the wake of recent mass shootings. |
| 0:52.0 | Ruth Marcus, who's the deputy editorial page editor for the Washington Post, |
| 0:56.0 | recently ran an article with a headline, |
| 0:59.0 | Why Do We Let Children buy Firearms? |
| 1:01.0 | Children. |
| 1:02.0 | Well, in this case, we're talking about older teenagers. We're |
| 1:04.8 | talking about the fact that these two young men, one in Uvality Texas, the other in |
| 1:09.2 | Buffalo, New York, were able to get these weapons and to use them with such murderous intent and with such |
| 1:15.9 | murderous effect. |
| 1:17.7 | The clear implication of asking this question, why do we let children by firearms, is to shock the reader, to shock the reader into the instant |
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