Monday, August 11, 2025

PART I A Battle of World Stagecraft is Coming to Alaska: Presidents Trump and Putin Set to Meet in Alaska

PART II Prime Minister Netanyahu Declares Intention to Take Complete Control of Gaza: What Will These Next Steps for Israel Look Like, and How Will It Affect the Global Scene?

PART III Democracy Makes a Difference: Israel’s Culture Includes Public Argument About the Morality of the War. Don’t Look for the Same Among Her Enemies

Friday, August 8, 2025

PART I Public Broadcasting Loses Federal Funding: How Did This Happen and Why Does it Matter?

PART II The Rise and Decline of Late Night Television: The Cancellation of the Stephen Colbert Show Indicates Important Cultural Shifts in Entertainment

PART III Is It Wrong for a Prisoner of War to Take a Cyanide Pill to Protect National Secrets? What About If It’s to Protect Civilian Lives? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 12-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART IV What Do We Do with the Books of Ministry Leaders Who Have Now Fallen Away from the Faith? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V Is It Wrong to Applaud During Worship Services? Who is Receiving Praise, God or the Worship Team? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 14-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Thursday, August 7, 2025

PART I The Birth of the ‘World’s Oldest Baby’: A Baby is Born After Being Frozen as an Embryo for 3 Decades

PART II Euthanasia is Not a Fundamental Right: Watch the Framing of the National Conversation Over Assisted Suicide

PART III Thou Shalt Not? Liberal Parents in Arkansas are Having a Fit Over Posting of Ten Commandments in Schools

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

PART I 80 Years After Hiroshima: The Morality of Human Knowledge and the Anniversary of the Atomic Bomb

PART II Was the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb Justified? Just War Theory and the Use of the Atomic Bomb

PART III The Horror of Nuclear Weapons: The Atomic Bomb is Very Much a Live Issue

PART IV Theology and the Atomic Bomb: Theology, in a Fallen World, is Often a Matter of Life and Death

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

PART I We Cannot Move On from Fight for Life: The Defense of the Unborn and the Struggle Against Abortion Remains a Battle We Must Fight

PART II Is There a Culture Shift on LGBTQ Issues? The Liberal Press is Now Hedging Its Bets on So-Called Transgender Procedures for Minors

PART III Watch Out for the Experts: The Warning Sign of ‘Experts Say’

PART IV The Importance of Presidential Administrations: If Conservative Presidents Don’t Fill Their Administrations with Genuine Conservatives, Conservative Principles Do Not Advance

Monday, August 4, 2025

PART I The Media Fail on Gaza’s Famine: Hamas is Primarily Responsible for Gaza’s Famine, Not Israel

PART II The Moral Responsibility of Israel: Israel Has Every Right to Defend Itself, But It Also Bears a Particular Moral Responsibility Based Upon Its Legitimacy as a Nation

PART III We Need the Truth About Epstein: When You Look at This ‘Conspiracy Theory,’ There is No Doubt a Conspiracy – But Just How Far Does It Go?

PART IV The Big Truth About Conspiracy Theory: We Rightly Demand the Truth, But Can Never Be Sure We Have It…Or Have All of It

Monday, June 30, 2025

PART I Ending the Term with Thunder: The Supreme Court Clarifies the Relationship Between the Executive and Judicial Branches

PART II Big Wins for Parents at the Supreme Court: Nation’s Highest Court Defends Parental Authority in Two Crucial Cases

PART III A Landmark Case in the Defense of Human Life: SCOTUS Sides with South Carolina Against Planned Parenthood

PART IV Stigma is Just Dead? Celebrity Frenzy Reaches New Heights at Bezos Wedding and What the Lavish Venetian Wedding Reveals about (Re)Marriage in 2025

Friday, June 27, 2025

PART I We are Peering over a Demographic Cliff: This Year’s High School Graduating Class is the Biggest in American History, But It’s Downhill From Here

PART II Is God Good to Permit That My Wife Die from a Brain Tumor at a Young Age? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letter from Listeners of The Briefing

PART III Do You Agree with Charles Spurgeon on ‘Political Christians’? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 15-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART IV What Advice Would You Give to An Aspiring Academic? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from an 18-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART V Can a Christian Participate in a Peaceable Protest? Was It Wrong for Me to Attend a Political Protest? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letter from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI How Should Christians Approach Complicated Figures Like Martin Luther? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letter from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, June 26, 2025

PART I Will a Socialist Muslim Become Mayor of New York? Zohran Mamdani Wins the Democratic Party’s Primary Race in New York

PART II The 10-Year Anniversary of Obergefell: Obergefell was a Terrible Constitutional Ruling, and Its Ripple Effects Have Been Massive

PART III We are Now 3 Years Post-Dobbs: Returning Abortion to the States was a Necessary Step in the Fight for Life— But Defenders of Life Must Press Onward

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

PART I Will Iran Recover and Resume its Nuclear Weapons Program? The Effectiveness of the Attacks are Unknown, and the Likelihood of Lasting Change is Difficult to Calculate

PART II NATO Allies Are Hiding Under the Shield of the U.S. – Are European Nations Serious About Their Own Survival?

PART III Did Trump Break International Law? Legal Scholar Seriously Argues that President Trump Had to Gain Support of UN Before Authorizing Military Attacks

PART IV The Logic of Much “International Law” Falls Apart – Just Look at How That’s (Not) Working in Russia

PART V The Global Struggle is Not Inclusion and Resistance: The Global Conflict Before Our Eyes is a Battle Between Liberty and Autocracy