Wednesday, October 22, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the Church of England’s announcement that its synods would require ⅔ vote to approve same-sex marriage, a new social justice storybook Bible, Bible books that are targeting families with a hermeneutic of suspicion, and the centrality of the Word to raising children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
Part I (00:14 – 10:12)
This is Just Delayed Surrender: The Church of England Will Require Two-Thirds Majorities in the Synod to Approve So-Called Same-Sex Marriage
- Bishops ‘killing’ plans for gay marriage by The Telegraph (Gabriella Swerling)
A New Social Justice Storybook Bible? New Storybook Bible Trades Biblical Fidelity for Diversity
- Progressive publishers launch children’s Bible stories with social justice, diversity themes by Fox News (Kristine Parks)
A Storybook Bible That Targets Your Children with a Hermeneutic of Suspicion: New Storybook Bible Seeks to Undermine the Truthfulness of God’s Word to Children
- Bible Books for Kids Take a Progressive Turn by Publishers Weekly (Cathy Lynn Grossman)
- New children’s Bible aims to capture diverse, nonpatriarchal ‘theology of love and justice’ by Religion News Service (Adelle M. Banks)
The Bible and Child Rearing: To Raise Your Children in the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord is to Raise Your Children in the Word
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.4 | The headlines are always coming at us. Sometimes the headlines are less obviously theological. |
| 0:20.1 | Today we're going to look at some pretty obviously |
| 0:22.0 | theological headlines. Number one, we're going to go to Great Britain. The headline in the |
| 0:26.3 | telegraph is this, Bishop's killing plans for gay marriage. Now, Gabriella Swirling is the reporter in |
| 0:32.8 | this story, and she tells us that the House of Bishops of the Church of England has announced that future changes |
| 0:39.4 | when it comes to church law and worship, that means a change that would offer, same-sex ceremonies |
| 0:46.1 | or same-sex marriage. This has been put off because it would require a two-thirds majority in the |
| 0:51.6 | three houses of Synod. That's the general senate of the Church of England, |
| 0:56.3 | and as the telegraph remarks, that is now unlikely to be achieved. So the big headline news here |
| 1:03.0 | is that the bishops in the Church of England, in a statement through the House of Bishops, |
| 1:07.6 | have said that they're not ready yet to move forward with same-sex marriage. |
| 1:12.0 | Now, it says killing. That's what phrase is used here. It's put in quotation marks. |
| 1:17.5 | But as we shall see, they didn't really kill the idea of same-sex marriage. They really didn't |
| 1:22.6 | kill the idea of same-sex ceremonies in the church. What they did was, say, kill for now. And that's not really |
| 1:29.5 | killing an issue at all. That's just delaying. There's a big story here, and this has to do with |
| 1:34.5 | the liberalism in the Church of England as indicative of the surrender of so many mainline |
| 1:39.5 | Protestant denominations and churches across the landscape. We have already seen that just recently the Church |
| 1:45.4 | of England announced that a woman, that is the current Bishop of London, Sarah Malali, is going |
| 1:50.6 | to serve as the Archbishop of Canterbury. That's the chief clerical position in the Church of |
| 1:55.7 | England and also the titular private of the Anglican Communion. The fact that a woman's going to serve in this role was one thing, it's a big thing, |
| 2:04.6 | but it's also very interesting that this woman is basically for LGBTQ rights in the church as they are styled. |
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