Monday, January 30, 2023

PART I Yet Another Horrifying Video Presented to Americans: Bodycam Footage Released of Tyre Nichols’ Arrest and Beating

PART II Public Opinion, Moral Consensus, and Justice: Theological Considerations of the Memphis Crisis

PART III Mourn with Those with Mourn: Praying for the Mourning and for Gospel Ministry in Memphis

Friday, January 27, 2023

PART I M&Ms Cancels Their Spokescandies: How the Candy Controversy Provides a Window into Our Culture

PART II Strange Business: Why are So Many Corporations Entering the Culture War?

PART III Biden Administration Orders Mail Order Abortion Pills Be Sent Through Mail, Saying No one Knows How They Might Be Used? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV Why Do Conservative Christians Refer to an Unborn Child as ‘Preborn’ and Not Just as a Baby? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V Is It a Right Application of Scripture to Use the Poetry Portions of the Bible for Specific Doctrinal Statements? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI Our Family’s Pediatrician Requires Me, as a Parent, to Leave the Room During Our Daughter’s Well-Child Visit. Should I Be Alarmed? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VII Is the Push to Keep Students' Transitions Hidden from Parents a Trojan Horse to Sever the Long-held Cultural Feelings Around Minor Consent? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VIII Why Did God Make Satan If God Knew He Would Be Bad? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter From an 8-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Thursday, January 26, 2023

PART I Church of England Will Not Authorize Same-Sex Marriages But Permits Clergy to Bless Same-Sex Unions ​— This is Moral Cowardice and a Theological Disaster

PART II The Church’s Bishops are Corrupting the Church: There Can Never Be a Middle Way Between Same-Sex Marriage and Orthodox, Biblical Christianity

PART III The End of Parenthood as It is Biblically Defined: Our Society Seeks to Supplant Parental Authority with the Authority of Public Schools

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

PART I The Right Side of History? Vice President Delivers Pro-Abortion Address in Wake of 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade

PART II ‘We Deserve So Much Better Than Roe’: Pro-Abortion Movement Uses Dobbs Decision to Push for Abortion Rights That Far Exceed Those Brought By Roe

PART III An Icon of The Left Steps Down from Leadership: Jacinda Ardern Resigns as New Zealand’s Prime Minister

PART IV Agnosticism in High Office: New Zealand as A Parable of a Post-Christian Age

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

PART I Public Schools vs Parental Rights: Educators Assume Right to Affirm a Child’s Trans Identity and Hide it From Parents

PART II Whose Morality? Whose Authority? Educators Claim Moral Imperative to Undermine Parents on Gender Issues

PART III Sign of the Times? Digital Platforms to Ban Gender-based Advertising for Teenagers

Monday, January 23, 2023

PART I Yesterday Marked 50 Years Since the Infamous Roe v. Wade Decision, But How Did That Decision Happen in the First Place?

PART II A Thunderclap Across the U.S. Moral Landscape: Justice Harry Blackman’s Majority Opinion That Led to Abortion on Demand

PART III The Awakening of the Christian American Conscience: The Emergence of the Evangelical Response to Roe v. Wade

PART IV Abortion and the Clash of Absolutes: You Either Recognize and Defend Life in the Womb or You Do Not

PART V The Power of Law and the Corruption of the American Moral Conscience: The Darkest Legacy of Roe v. Wade

Friday, January 20, 2023

PART I ‘The State Doesn’t Surrender in the Face of the Mafia’: Italy’s Top Mob Fugitive Captured After 30 Years on the Run

PART II Given His Omniscience and the Occurrence of So Many Miscarriages, Is God the Most Prolific Abortionist? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART III Why Did the FDA Change the Packaging of the Morning After Pill? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV I Had a Miscarriage at 11 Weeks Due to a Blighted Ovum. Was There Ever a Life in Me? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V What is the Meaning of the Term ‘Catholic’ in the Apostles’ Creed? What Does the Apostles’ Creed Mean When It References the Communion of the Saints? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI What is Satan’s Purpose and Goal? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, January 19, 2023

PART I China Has Become Old Before It Has Become Rich: China in Crisis as Birth Rates Drop Lower Than Death Rates For First Time in Decades

PART II No, This is Primarily a Moral Problem: Evaluating the West’s Response to China’s Population Drop

PART III Retirement Is Considered Sacred? Emmanuel Macron Fights Losing Battle of Increasing France’s Retirement Age

Wednesday, January 18, 2023

PART I Hold Onto Your Stoves — Yes, Progressive Really Are Coming for Them

PART II Experts Note A Significant Uptick in UFO Sightings Over the Last Few Years — What Does This Mean?

PART III A Society Running From Revealed Truth Will Never Be Intellectually Satisfied: Why Our Government Has Undertaken to Spend Millions of Dollars on UFO Research

Tuesday, January 17, 2023

PART I ‘They’re Trying to Cancel My Whole Existence.’: Psychotherapeutic Ideology and Identity Politics Meets in the Moral Revolution and its Transformation of Language

PART II Holy Scripture Must Give Way? Bishop Calls for Church of England to Change Its Doctrine on Sexuality and Marriage

PART III The Essence of Protestant Liberalism and Capitulation to a Secular Culture: It’s Sola Scriptura or Secular Wisdom, So Make Your Choice