Thursday, January 25, 2024

PART I We are Watching the Biggest Schism in American Protestant History: The Staggering Numbers of the UMC Split Come to Light

PART II Red and Blue America Shows Up in the UMC Split: The Worldview of Geography Behind the Headlines

PART III The Short Hermeneutical Jump from Ordination of Women to LGBTQ Affirmation: Conservative Methodists Have Many Other Issues to Face

PART IV Why So Little Media Coverage on This Great Protestant Disaffiliation? The Secular Shift of Attention in a Post-Christian America

PART V Don’t Save Us If You’re a Conservative: Recent Sale of Baltimore Sun Has Alarm Bells Ringing on the Left

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

PART I The Voters Send Their Message: The New Hampshire Primary and the Shape of the Campaigns Ahead

PART II And it Doesn’t Even Count: The Biden Campaign’s Write-In Strategy to Avoid Embarrassment in New Hampshire

PART III Israel’s Existence Is at Stake, and They Know It: The Truth About the “Two State Solution” to the Palestinian Issue

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

PART I So, Why is the New Hampshire Primary So Important? And Why Does the State Historically Go First?

PART II ‘Not Many of Us Go to Church Here’: Turns Out That Makes a Big Difference, For Example, on the Issue of Abortion

PART III Republican Voters Make a Choice — Will Trump Claim the Nomination as Inevitable? What Might that Mean?

Monday, January 22, 2024

PART I And Then There Were Two: Governor Ron DeSantis Suspends Republican Primary Election Campaign

PART II President Biden Hones In on Re-Election Strategy — Its Message? Abortion On Demand

PART III One of the Deadliest Tyrants and Ideologues in Human History: A Look at the Legacy of Vladimir Lenin Occasioned by the 100th Anniversary of His Death

Friday, January 19, 2024

PART I A Parable of an America That No Longer Exists: Joyce Randolph Dies at Age 99

PART II Did We Just Witness a New Age in Entertainment? Recent Chiefs vs. Dolphins Game Marks Largest Online Viewership in Internet History

PART III Is Surrogacy Immoral? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV How Can the Bible Be the Inerrant Word of God If It Was Written by Men? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V What Does It Look Like to Be a Good Earthly Citizen? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI What is God’s Glory? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VII Would It Violate the Bible’s Principles of Male Headship to Vote for a Woman to Be President? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VIII Why is There So Much Murder in the Bible? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 6-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Thursday, January 18, 2024

PART I The Power of the Administrative State Faces a Reckoning at the Supreme Court? SCOTUS Hears Case That Could Overturn Precedent of “Chevron Deference”

PART II Why Did Some Conservatives Support Administrative Deference? The Complicated History of This Major Issue

PART III The 50th Anniversary of the Endangered Species Act: Evaluating the Divided Legacy of This Controversial Legislation

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

PART I 100 Days After October 7, 2023: Israel Pledges to Fight On Against Hamas and Faces a New Global Reality

PART II Taiwan’s Bold Election Results: Taiwanese People Elect Leader In Opposition to China’s Claim of Rule, Raising Interesting Questions of History

PART III Popularity of New Orleans Wings on the Rise Worldwide — The Kicker? They Never Were From New Orleans

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

PART I Former President Donald Trump Dominates Iowa Caucus: It’s a Clear Victory for Trump — The Rest of the Picture Not Yet Clear

PART II How Has Iowa Turned So Red? How Iowa Has Moved Deeper and Deeper Red While Surrounding States Have Gone Deep Blue

PART III President Biden’s Hypocrisy, the Death Penalty, and the Imago Dei: What the Federal Prosecution of the Buffalo Shooter Reveals About Capital Punishment

PART IV A Medieval Problem Returns to the Eton School: Students Encouraged to Stay Home Until School Can Fix Major Toilet Problems

Monday, January 15, 2024

PART I The Attacks Necessitated a Response: U.S. and Allies Rightfully Strike Back Against the Houthi Rebels over Repeated Strikes in the Red Sea

PART II The Race for 2024 Republican Nomination is Fully On: Looking Ahead to the Significance of Tonight’s Iowa’s Caucuses

PART III Denmark’s New King: King Frederik X Takes the Throne After Monarch Abdicates for First Time in Almost 900 Years

Friday, January 12, 2024

PART I South Korea Declares Fido is a Friend, Not Food: Major Shift Takes Place As Government Bans the Selling of Dog Meat

PART II Does Your Interpretation of the 14th Amendment Violate the Principle of Textualism? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART III Will You Respond to the Argument That "Not Imputing Their Trespasses to Them" from 2 Corinthians 5:19 Means Universal Forgiveness? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 15-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART IV Can a Christian Vote for a Party Candidate That Supports the Murder of Babies? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V Is God Happy? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 4-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing