Wednesday, September 21, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 21 September 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 12:06)
What’s Missing from Banned Books Week in the US? Banned Books, Of Course — So What’s Behind All This?Banned in the USA: The Growing Movement to Censor Books in Schools by PEN AmericaPart II (12:06 - 16:16)
The Bottom Line of Banned Books Week: A Progressivist Agenda to Nullify Parental RightsPart III (16:16 - 20:51)
Professions and Professional Associations Pushing Left Together: How the Media and Education Elites Influence Culture and Shape MoralityAttempts to Ban Books Are Accelerating and Becoming More Divisive by New York Times (Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris)Part IV (20:51 - 26:02)
A Campaign Promise Fulfilled and a Win for Parents in Virginia: Glenn Youngkin Ends Policy that Allowed Schools to Conceal Transgender Transition of Students from ParentsVirginia Reverses School Protections for Transgender Students by New York Times (Ava Sasani)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, September 21, 2022. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
| 0:12.2 | from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Well, yes, it's that time of the year again. |
| 0:16.2 | It is Band Books Week in the United States, |
| 0:18.6 | the week in which there is much discussion about Band Books, |
| 0:21.4 | but almost no books that are banned. But we are talking |
| 0:24.4 | about an issue of vast moral significance. It tells us a great deal more about |
| 0:28.5 | books. It tells us about how moral change takes place within our society or at least how many moral change takes place within our society, or at least how many people |
| 0:35.2 | want to see change take place. |
| 0:38.2 | It tells us a lot about authority in our society, the influencers, who gets to decide what is read and what is not, who |
| 0:45.0 | decides what will be the curriculum in the schools and who does not, who should |
| 0:49.3 | not. |
| 0:50.3 | Those are huge questions. |
| 0:51.3 | But first of all, we are talking about something that's getting a lot of |
| 0:54.0 | media attention. In many of the nation's newspapers, front page stories this week, sometimes |
| 0:59.4 | over the weekend in anticipation of what's called Band Books Week. |
| 1:03.0 | Now what is it, actually? |
| 1:05.0 | Well, Band Books Week is a week in which there is much attention being given, |
| 1:10.0 | particularly by literary free expression, civil groups to what they claim is a |
| 1:15.3 | phenomenon of banned books now here's something you need to just keep in mind first |
| 1:19.6 | of all we're going to consider the fact that even though this is called Band Books Week by the definition of those who have labeled it such |
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