The Briefing with Albert Mohler Tuesday, October 28, 2025
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Oct 28, 2025 In this discussion, the impact of President Trump's Asia visit on trade and geopolitics is explored, including the contrasting worldviews of the U.S. and China. The troubling decline in Finland's birth rate is analyzed, challenging the notion that economic factors are the primary cause. Additionally, a controversial new reproductive technology that creates egg-like cells from skin raises ethical questions, potentially redefining motherhood and its implications for family structures. Each topic intertwines economics, ethics, and deep-seated beliefs.
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Trade Reveals Civilizational Fault Lines
- Trade shapes civilizational relationships and reveals competing worldviews between nations.
- Albert Mohler argues U.S.-China trade is a clash of fundamentally different political and cultural systems with strategic stakes like rare earths.
Bosphorus And Elizabeth I: A Trade Story
- Mohler recounts standing on the Bosphorus to illustrate trade's historical role between Asia and Europe.
- He then tells of Elizabeth I courting Islamic rulers to expand England's trade network in the 16th century.
Low Fertility Signals A Worldview Shift
- Falling birth rates signal a deeper worldview shift, not just economic causes.
- Mohler connects secularization and delayed motherhood to a theological and cultural decline in fertility.
