Thursday, March 28, 2024

PART I A Political Type That No Longer Exists: The Life and Legacy of Senator Joseph Lieberman — Last of the Old Style Political Centrists

PART II Religion is Losing Influence, and Americans Aren’t Happy About It: Examining the Complicated (and Conflicting) Numbers from Recent Research

PART III A Claimed Drop in Religious Affiliation Due to Lack of LGBTQ Support — But Do the Numbers Really Support That Narrative?

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

PART I SCOTUS to Decide Fate of Abortion Pill? Oral Arguments Over Mifepristone Go Before SCOTUS — With the Looming Question of Standing in the Forefront

PART II Abortion in a Pill: The Constitutional and Moral Challenges Behind the Mifepristone Oral Arguments

PART III Let’s Remember the Comstock Act: Why the Left is Looking to the Courts for Rescue

PART IV A Tragic Parable of Human Civilization: Ship Crash Collapses Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

PART I A Dark Day in US Diplomacy: The U.S. ‘Abstains’ on UN Gaza Ceasefire Resolution

PART II Biden Looks Left as Netanyahu Looks Right: The Political and Global Pressures Pulling the U.S. and Israel Apart over Gaza

PART III Sociologists for Palestine? Proposed American Sociological Association Resolution Goes After Existence of Israel

Monday, March 25, 2024

PART I Deadly Terrorist Attack in Russia — Who Was Behind It and Why? ISIS Claims Responsibility

PART II Islam Versus Order Across the Globe: The Religious Agenda Behind the Terrorist Attack in Russia

PART III What Did He Know, and When Did He Know It?’ — The Developing Story Around Illegal Betting, Shohei Ohtani’s Translator, and the Future of Major League Baseball

PART IV The Precarious Condition of Monarchy in the Modern World: With Prayer for Recovery for the Princess of Wales and Protection for Her Young Family, the Monarchy Is Shaken Once Again

Friday, March 22, 2024

PART I Social Contagion and the Limits of ‘Happy’: U.S. Drastically Falls on UN Happiness Scale — What Moral Points Should Be Considered Here?

PART II What is the Difference Between Sex and Gender? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART III What Happens to Those Who Die Having Never Heard the Gospel? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 14-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART IV Would You Elaborate on Your Opinion about FDR’s Presidency and Leadership? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V Why Are So Many Young People Pro-Palestine? Is It Because of Social Media and Misinformation, or Is There More to It Than That? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 14-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART VI How Could Adolf Hitler Glorify God? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 9-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Thursday, March 21, 2024

PART I So Much for the ‘Special Autonomous Region’ — Hong Kong as a Test Case for What Totalitarianism Does

PART II Too Much Virtue Signaling from an Ice Cream Brand? Corporate Owner of Ben and Jerry’s Separates Itself Due to Pro-Palestine Controversy

PART III Yes, Your Phone is Tracking You: Major Concerns Behind Big Tech and the Use and Sale of Your Data

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

PART I Senator Schumer’s Breach of Political Decorum: Majority Leader Calls for New Election and Replacement of Israeli Prime Minister

PART II Do We Really Want to Live in an Economy Where People Only Work 30 Hours a Week? Examining Senator Sanders’s 32-Hour Work Week Bill

PART III ‘We Have Capture’: Pioneer Astronaut of American-Soviet Space Mission, Thomas Stafford, Dies at 93

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

PART I Why All the Drama for Russia’s Staged Election? Pomp, Circumstance, and Putin’s Version of Political Legitimacy

PART II Kamala Visits the Culture of Death: She Becomes First U.S. President or Vice President to Visit an Abortion Clinic — As a Campaign Stop

PART III Abortion is the Political Strategy of the Democratic Party: Don’t Believe It? Let’s Just Look at Their Own Words

PART IV ‘An Odor of Mendacity Remains’: The Big Issue Behind the Ruling on District Attorney Fani Willis in Georgia Case

Monday, March 18, 2024

PART I France Proposes Further Diminishing of Human Dignity: French President Emmanuel Macron Announce Euthanasia ‘Aid in Dying’ Bill

PART II A Growing Rift Between France and Germany: Why Tension Between These Two Nations Does Not Bode Well for Europe

PART III 'Overdose' or 'Fentanyl Poisoning'? War Over Words Comes to the Drug Abuse Epidemic

Friday, March 15, 2024

PART I What Happened to Hell? Pope Francis’s (Typically) Confusing Comments About Hell Raise Questions About Hell in Doctrine and in the Culture

PART II What Does Natural Death Mean? Should We Use Modern Technologies to Forestall Death? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 15-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART III How Can Lay People Support Their Pastor? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV What Do You Think About an Abolitionist Position on Abortion? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V How Do We Obey God’s Word While Getting Everything Else Done in a Day? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a Busy Mom of Toddlers and Listener of The Briefing