Wednesday, June 7, 2023

PART I The Three Ages of Modern Media: Looking at the Shape of Our Media Challenge

PART II Digital Media and the Brave New World of News Media: Technology is Reshaping the Media Landscape

PART III ‘Customer Ratings Have Become Meaningless’: A Culture Where ‘Average’ Is Rated As ‘Superb’ Just Might Have a Problem

Tuesday, June 6, 2023

PART I India’s Deadly Train Crash: Human Error or Mechanical Failure? Sometimes it Comes Down to Both

PART II Just One Issue of USA Today Reveals the Transformed Moral Landscape: It Also Reveals Finger-pointing at Both Parents and Christianity

PART III There Is More (and Less) to This Story: The Inverted Math of the Moral Revolutionaries

Monday, June 5, 2023

PART I Was the Debt Ceiling Crisis a Manufactured Drama? Not Entirely, But There Was a Political Plot and a Predictable Resolution

PART II A Parable of America’s Fracturing Entertainment Culture: What the Viewership of the Finale of ‘Succession’ Teaches About the American Public and New Media

PART III Stories and the Imago Dei: Humans Are Storytelling Creatures — And Our Place in God's Story Matters Most

Friday, June 2, 2023

PART I Target Has Redefined its Business Model to Force Its Consumers to Make a Choice: Will They Support the LGBTQ Revolution Or Not?

PART II Should Christians Do Business With Companies Who Support Causes We Cannot? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART III How Should Protestant Christians Think About the “Incorruption” of a Nun? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV Should Christians Just Accept the Inevitability of AI Technologies to Get Ahead of the Curve? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, June 1, 2023

PART I Well, Are Humans Facing the Threat of Extinction by Artificial Intelligence or Not?: The Argument Over the Consequences of AI Rages On

PART II The Morality of Knowledge and Technological Determinism: Big Worldview Issues Behind AI Technologies

PART III No, AI Will Not Lead to Our Extinction, But We Do Need Protection — From Ourselves

Wednesday, May 31, 2023

PART I Uganda’s Clear Signal to the West — We Reject Your LGBTQ Revolution: Uganda Passes Law Criminalizing Specific Expressions of Homosexuality

PART II President Biden Declares Uganda’s Law ‘A Tragic Violation of Universal Human Rights’ — But What Universal Human Rights, Specifically?

PART III Who to Watch in the 2024 Election: Will the Socially Conservative, Fiscally Liberal Voter Make Up the Significant ‘Swing Vote’ in the Next Presidential Election?

Tuesday, May 30, 2023

PART I Biden and McCarthy Strike a Deal to Avert Debt Default, But Can They Muster Enough Votes? The Worldview Dimensions Get Complicated

PART II Strong Islam Equals Strong Turkey? Worldview Considerations of President Erdogan’s Election to Unprecedented Third Term in Turkey

PART III From the Byzantium and the Roman Empire to the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey: Why So Much History Intersects In One Nation

Friday, May 26, 2023

PART I Social Media Preys on the Young: The Federal Government Sounds the Alarm on Dangers of Social Media Use Among Adolescents

PART II How is Jesus God’s Son? How Can He Be God and Man at the Same Time? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 12-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART III Why Did You Not Mention the Connection of Satanism to The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence on The Briefing? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV How Would You Respond to a Christian Couple Who Argues They Can Cohabitate So Long as They Do Not Sleep Together? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V To What Degree Do We Legislate Morality Without Creating a Theocracy? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, May 25, 2023

PART I The Moral Revolution’s Targeting of Institutions: It’s Not an Accident, It’s a Strategy

PART II The Fight for Institutions Will Come to Your Christian College: Houghton University Under Scrutiny After Firing Employees For Using Preferred Pronouns in Email Signature

PART III Trust Teachers Over Parents? Beware the Progressive Bandwagon Telling Parents to Go Home

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

PART I The ‘Religious Right’ in Japan? The Moral Revolution Hits an Unexpected Obstacle. It’s Probably Not What You Think

PART II The Centrality of Bathrooms in the Culture War: It’s Not By Accident

PART III You Can Have Celebrity or Deep Privacy — But Not Both. Lessons from Prince Harry and Meghan