Wednesday, June 15, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 07:34)
The Birth of the New Left in the United States: 60 Years After the Port Huron StatementPort Huron Statement by Students for a Democratic SocietyPart II (07:34 - 14:14)
The Long March Through the Institutions and Hollywood: Tom Hayden, Jane Fonda, and Cultural Marxism’s Trickle Down from Port Huron into the CulturePart III (14:14 - 19:30)
‘We Want the Universe to Hold Our Hand — Without Bossing Us Around Too Much’: The Loony Theological Left and the Shift from Witches to Life Coaches in America400 Years Ago, They Would Be Witches. Today, They Can Be Your Coach. by New York Times (Molly Worthen)Part IV (19:30 - 25:49)
Nancy Brophy and Agatha Christie: Murder Mysteries, the Christian Worldview, and Vexing Questions‘How to Murder Your Husband’ Writer Convicted of Murdering Husband by New York Times (Mike Baker)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, June 15, 2022. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian |
| 0:12.4 | worldview. |
| 0:13.7 | Today marks the 60th anniversary of one of the most important political events of the 20th century, |
| 0:18.8 | but frankly it wasn't recognized as such at the time. |
| 0:22.8 | It was 60 years ago at a United Auto Workers' Retreat, |
| 0:26.4 | known as Port Huron in Michigan, |
| 0:28.6 | that a group of young liberal activists |
| 0:31.2 | released a statement that became known as the Port Huron statement. |
| 0:34.7 | That statement became the manifesto for what developed in the United States as the new left. |
| 0:40.4 | And we are reaping the whirlwind that was established set loose back 60 years ago today |
| 0:46.8 | in the United States right now. |
| 0:48.8 | And as there are so many things happening that are very current around us. We need to step back for a moment |
| 0:53.2 | and go back 60 years in order to understand where some of the most important leftist |
| 0:58.5 | currents now very much driving our contemporary culture where they came from, how they emerged, what |
| 1:04.0 | were the issues that were defined. |
| 1:06.6 | First of all, who were these people who were there at Port Huron, which was, as I said at |
| 1:10.5 | the time, a retreat of the United Auto Workers, it's now known as Lakeport State Park there in Michigan. |
| 1:16.8 | It was owned by the United Auto Workers. |
| 1:19.2 | That was a very powerful union. |
| 1:21.2 | It still is in one sense, but it's nowhere near as powerful now as it |
| 1:24.7 | was then and you had organized labor basically allowing these very young liberal activists to use the retreat center but frankly they set |
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