Friday, November 4, 2022

PART I ‘American Couples Didn’t Let Pandemic Isolation Go to Waste.’: Fertility Rates in U.S. See First Major Decline Reversal Since 2007

PART II New Dad, Does It Feel Like the Birth of Your Firstborn Child Shrank Your Brain? — Turns Out, That’s Exactly What’s Happened (And It’s a Good Thing)

PART III How Do We Consistently Address Hard Issues From the Culture With Our Kids Without Discouraging Them? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV Should Adultery Be Illegal? What About Homosexuality? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V What Do You Mean When You Refer to Yourself as Augustinian? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI What Language Did Adam and Eve Speak? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 9-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Thursday, November 3, 2022

PART I Is it Even Possible for California to Be More Pro-Abortion? A Proposed Constitutional Amendment and it’s Meaning

PART II Abortion, Autonomy, and Moral Insanity Come Together in Vermont’s Abortion Vote — And a Liberal Denomination Tries to Rewrite Christian Theology

PART III Another Vote to Establish a Radical Right to Abortion: Michigan’s Proposal 3

PART IV An Amendment for Moral Sanity and Constitutional Clarity: A Vote for Amendment 2 in Kentucky is a Vote for Life

PART V Montana Proposes ‘Born Alive Infants Protection Act’ to Establish that Born-Alive Infants are Legal Persons — Who Could Possibly Vote Against That?

Wednesday, November 2, 2022

PART I They Are Trying Out a New Argument for “Gender Affirming” Surgery and Treatments—A Newly Invented Right of Integrity Means the Surrender of Modern Medicine

PART II Public Health Professor urges Medical Doctors to Fight for LGBTQ Rights at the State Level: This is How Morality is Reshaped Before Our Eyes

PART III ‘Unleash Your Inner (Super) Hero’: Supplement Companies Find Success in Infantilizing Marketing Ploy Directed at American Men

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

PART I What Can Explain Such Panic and Mayhem? Massive Street Party Turns Deadly in Seoul

PART II ‘The Madness of Crowds’: Why Crowds Seem to Have a Mind of Their Own

PART III Is the Way to Stop Discriminating on the Basis of Race… to Just Stop Discriminating on the Basis of Race? Supreme Court Hears Five Hours of Oral Argument on Affirmative Action

Monday, October 31, 2022

PART I Lula is Back: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Elected Again as Brazil’s Next President —Revealing Major Issues Between Populism on the Right and Left

PART II Violence within a Political Context: Paul Pelosi Attacked in San Francisco — Does This Mark a New Era of Violence Against Political Leaders in the U.S.?

PART III ‘Remember People, Guns and Diet Mountain Dew Don’t Mix’: Woman Objects to Her Father’s Favorite Diet Soda with a Revolver

Friday, October 28, 2022

PART I Marriage Delayed and Children Foregone: The Age of People in First-Time Marriages Is Rising, and Fertility Rates are Declining — We Better Watch This Closely

PART II ‘Gathering Together for Dinner Can Feel Like an Impossibility’: Families are Now So Busy That Many Children Never Have a Family Meal — And the Children are Suffering

PART III When Does Personhood Begin? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV Why Did God Put the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 7-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART V What is the Distinction Between Justice and Fairness? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI Do Verses 4 and 5 of Proverbs 26 Contradict Each Other? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, October 27, 2022

PART I So, Does a Christian’s Right to Live by Christian Convictions Violate Someone Else’s Religious Liberty? You Need to Watch This Argument

PART II Anglican Church Comes to Crossroads Over Teaching on Homosexuality (Again): Can Two Completely Incompatible Moralities Exist in One Church?

PART III A Parable of Protestant Liberalism's Hermeneutics: It’s Revealed in an Obituary

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

PART I Enthusiast in Chief for the Transgender Revolution: President Joe Biden Calls Any State Restrictions of ‘Gender-Affirming’ Legally and Morally Wrong

PART II Male, Female, or X?: The LGBTQ Revolution Coming to Social Security Administration Gender Boxes Near You

PART III ‘The Term ‘Queer’ is Exclusive’: A Debate within the LGBTQ Community Reveals How Moral Revolutions Require Ongoing Revolutions in Language

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

PART I Revenge of the Political Establishment and the Financial Markets: Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak Set to Become Britain’s Newest Prime Minister

PART II Just Ask Napoleon or Hitler: In Russia and Ukraine, Winter is More Powerful Than Any Army

PART III Russia’s Taking of Children and the Strategy of Russification: A War Crime Takes Shape

PART IV A City Without Men: The Consequences of War Show Up on Russian Streets

PART V ‘Exploitative, Ethically and Logistically Complex, Even in Peacetime’: Ukraine Revives Surrogacy Industry

Monday, October 24, 2022

PART I Britain’s Shortest Term of a Prime Minister Leads to Political Crisis: Liz Truss Resigns as Prime Minister after Only 45 Days in Office

PART II Our Closest Ally Is in a Fight for Political Stability (Without a Written Constitution): Britain and Her Parliamentary System

PART III The One Man at the Very Top of China’s One Party Rule: Xi Jinping Secures Unprecedented Third Five-Year Term and Sets China on Collision Course with the West