Thursday, January 11, 2024

PART I The Question of Presidential Immunity is Complicated: The Difficulty Comes Down to Determining the Limits of Presidential Immunity and Constitutional Implications

PART II The Great Strength of Constitutional Government: How Our Arduous Processes Enable Justice and Prevent Totalitarianism

PART III Technical Failures are More Complicated at 13,000 Feet — Much Less at Higher Altitudes: Recent Headlines Underline Big Issues Many People Never Think About

PART IV We Sent Men to the Moon in the 1960s and We Can’t Seem to Do it Now? There Are Huge Issues Behind Recent Headlines

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

PART I The Ripple Effects of Moral Change from the Vatican: Evaluating the Global Response to the Pope’s Blessing of Same-Sex Couples

PART II The Pope Falls Short on Surrogacy Denouncement: Arguments Against Surrogacy Should Be Based in Scripture and Creation Order, Not Just a Critique of Capitalism

PART III This Close to the Papacy: Vatican Doctrine Watchdog Revealed to Have Written Novels Blending Theology and Pornography

PART IV Crisis in the Chain of Command: Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Causes Security Crisis After Hiding Serious Medical Procedures from the White House

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

PART I The Sexual Revolution and Its Strange Allies: The Massive Issues Behind Ohio Governor DeWine’s Veto of House Bill 68

PART II What’s Behind a Name? Disqualification of Transgender Candidate in Ohio Shows Danger Posed by New Ideological Notions of Name and Identity

PART III The Very Dangerous World of Artificial Intelligence: Emergence of AI Pornography Raises Huge Issues of Morality and Identity

Monday, January 8, 2024

PART I Former President Trump Struck From State Ballots? Huge Constitutional Issues Hang in the Balance as SCOTUS Decides to Take Up Colorado Case

PART II The 2024 State of the Union Address: President Biden Seeks to Do Damage Control as He Ratchets Up Re-Election Campaign

PART III A Tinderbox Grows Even More Incendiary: The Increasingly Hostile, and Theological, Conflicts in the Middle East

PART IV The Dangers of Riding a Tiger: The Inevitable End of Totalitarian Dictatorships

Friday, December 22, 2023

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PART X

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PART XII

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Thursday, December 21, 2023

PART I The Dramatic Disaffiliation: The Biggest Schism in American Protestantism Is Taking Place in the United Methodist Church Right Now

PART II LGBTQ Issues, Control, and Theological Arguments: Why Conservatives are Leaving the UMC

PART III Who are the Houthi Rebels? Just Look at Their Motto: The Theology and Ideology Behind the Terrorist Attacks in the Red Sea

Wednesday, December 20, 2023

PART I The Road to Reversing Roe: A Major Investigation Into How the Supreme Court Came to Reverse Roe v. Wade

PART II A Long War Against Women’s Rights? The Left’s Narrative of Why the Dobbs Decision Happened

PART III Do Courts Make Decisions on the Grounds of Emerging Social Consensus? Examining an Observation from the Late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor

Tuesday, December 19, 2023

PART I Did Pope Francis Really Give Blessing to Same-Sex Couples? The Complicated Disaster of the News Coming Out of the Vatican

PART II Progressing the Sexual Revolution By a Wink: The Strategy of Pope Francis to Blur the Lines of “Union” Ceremonies with Weddings

PART III The Bottom Line of the Roman Catholic Church’s Blessing of Same-Sex Unions

PART IV The Cultural Context and Political Effects: How the Vatican’s Blessing of Same-Sex Couples Will Impact Faithful Protestant Christians Across the Globe

Monday, December 18, 2023

PART I There Are No Holidays from History: Big Questions Arise as the War Between Israel and Hamas Rages

PART II The U.S. Calls for Israel Fighting in Gaza to ‘Slow Down’ Soon? But What Is Really At Stake? What Do the US and Europe Really Want? What Are Leaders Really Saying?

PART III Where is the Pledged Support for Ukraine? Why is Border Security Linked? Big Issues (and Big Dangers) Arise

Friday, December 15, 2023

PART I The Cult of Celebrity and Moral Revolution Enshrined in the Smithsonian: National Portrait Gallery Unveils Portrait of Oprah Winfrey

PART II How Should Christians Think About Accepting Private Tax Credits From States for Public Schools? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART III In Christian Ethics, Is Something, Like the Sale of Organs, That Has the Potential of Being Unethical Considered Unethical? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV Who Says That Abortion Cannot Be the Intended Purpose of Any Procedure? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V Should Christians Read the Great Works of Western Literature? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI How Does Prayer Differ Between the Old and New Testaments? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VII Why was Cain So Jealous of Abel’s Sacrifice That He Killed His Brother? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 7-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing