Past Episodes

Wednesday, December 15, 2021

PART I ‘A Dollar Does Not Buy What It Used To’: A Christian Worldview Analysis of Inflation and its Effects

PART II How Did Money Come to Be? The Necessity of Trust in the Function of Currency

PART III Dollar Tree is Raising Its Price to $1.25 Turns Out to Be a Metaphor for the Modern Economy

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

PART I The Sanctity of Human Life Is a Theological Issue — And Now Now Political Analysts Are Getting the Picture, With Very Interesting Insights

PART II Big Worldview Issues and Politics Collide in the Battle Over Congressional Redistricting

PART III Do Pro-Life Americans Want to "Take Away" a Civil Right (Abortion)? No, Because There Is No Right to Abort an Unborn Baby

Monday, December 13, 2021

PART I Longing for the New Creation: Responding to the Vast Devastation as Mid-South — Especially Western Kentucky — Is Ravaged by Tornadoes

PART II Objective Truth, Justice, and the Category of ‘Hate Crime’: Evaluating the Guilty Verdicts Against Jussie Smollett

PART III The Battle for Life Goes On: Supreme Court Upholds Texas Abortion Ban — For Now.

PART IV Gen Z Group Attempts to ‘Fight Lunacy with Lunacy’ — But the Best Remedy to Untruth is Truth, Not Lunacy

Friday, December 10, 2021

PART I Chile Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage — A Sign of Vast Social and Moral Change in Latin America

PART II Scott Peterson Sentenced to Life in Prison Without Parole for Killing His Pregnant Wife Confirmed — Rightly Convicted of Two Killings, Not One

PART III Author Constance Ahrons Dies at 84 — But Her Idea of the “Good Divorce” Has Gained Ground

PART IV What are the Possible Outcomes of the Mississippi Abortion Case? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing

PART V Does Investing in China Lead to Westernization? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing

PART VI Why Should We Not Just ‘Flush and Forget’? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing

PART VII Is It Wrong for Christians to Think About A Trimester Understanding of Pregnancy? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing

PART VIII Will You Discuss Why 5 of 6 Justices Who Voted in Favor of Roe Were Appointed by Republican Presidents? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing

PART IX In the Case of Stare Decisis, When Is It Appropriate for the Supreme Court to Supersede and Overrule the Will of the People? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing

Thursday, December 9, 2021

PART I Can States Constitutionally Discriminate Against Religious Schools? — Nation’s Highest Court Hears Oral Arguments over Big Separation of Church and State Case from Maine

PART II The State of Maine Is OK with Funding Religious Schools — So Long as They Are Not Actually Religious

PART III Biden Appointee for Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Withdraws from Confirmation Fight . . Over Questions About Communism?

PART IV Identity Politics Never Gives Up: The Media's Constant Focus on LGBTQ Identity, as in “First Openly Gay Commissioner of Customs and Border Control"

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

PART I The Story Behind Three Great and Urgent Global Challenges to the U.S. — Russia, China, and Iran

PART II Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions Threatens Global Safety — And Poses More Than a Regional Threat

PART III History and Geography Always Matter: Understanding Putin’s Ambitions to Recover Russian Glory and the Escalating Conflict in Ukraine

PART IV The Biden Administration Announces It Will Not Send Diplomatic Representatives to 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing — What Is That About?

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

PART I Adoption as Morally Suspect and Abortion as Moral Good? The Truth Revealed About the Abortion Rights Movement’s Rejection of Adoption

PART II A Story of Service, Military Service, Patriotism, and American Politics: Senator Robert Dole Dies at Age 98

PART III ‘A Day that Will Live in Infamy’: Remembering the Attack on Pearl Harbor 80 Years Later

Monday, December 6, 2021

PART I Violence Lurks in the Human Heart: Sifting through the Moral Complexities of the Horrifying School Shooting in Oxford, Michigan

PART II ‘These Kids Know They’re Untouchable’: The Loss of Discipline in Schools and Its Effects on Society as a Whole

PART III CNN Fires Chris Cuomo — Evaluating the Worldview Issues Surrounding CNN’s Loss of Primetime News Anchor

PART IV Cute Animals Videos Online Receive Millions of Views: There Might Be a Good Reason for Millions of Humans to Watch a Grinning Seal

Friday, December 3, 2021

PART I The Covid-19 Omicron Variant: What Do We Know? And Why the Ensuing New York City Draconian Measures in Response? — When Will the Politics of Covid End?

PART II The Disappearance of Real News: What the Saga of CNN’s Chris Cuomo Tells Us About News Media Today

PART III Should Our Country Have A Mono-Religion? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing

PART IV Do the Other Apostles (And the Gospels) Agree with Paul’s Gospel Message About the Death and Resurrection of Jesus? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing

PART V Where Do We Find A Theology of Homemaking in the Bible? What About Missional Motherhood? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing

Thursday, December 2, 2021

PART I "Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey Haunt Our Country” — Some of the Most Clarifying Words in Supreme Court History

PART II Precedent and a Woman’s ‘Right’ to an Abortion: A Look at the Pro-Abortion Movement’s Two Major Arguments In Favor of Upholding Roe and Casey

PART III The Power of Argument: Why Abortion Rights Supporters Consider Yesterday’s Oral Arguments a Disaster for Their Movement

PART IV Defining the Modern Age? The Right for a Woman to Kill Life Within Her

PART V The U.S. Solicitor General Who Made the Arguments for Abortion Before the Supreme Court Yesterday Was Appointed by President Joe Biden — Elections have Consequences . . . Every Election, Every Time

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