Monday, August 15, 2022

PART I Decades of Fatwa and Last Week’s Attack on Author Salman Rushdie: Theology, Honor Religion, and the Headlines

PART II ‘Intellectual Improvement Should Lead to Moral Improvement’: The Significance of the The Chautauqua Institution and Its Movement

PART III Where Has News Reporting Gone?: Study Shows CNN and MSNBC Make Big Move Left Since 2016

Friday, August 12, 2022

PART I ‘In Short, People are Exhausting’: The Relationship Deficit of the Digital Age

PART II Research on Social Media Use Among Teens Reveals the Seemingly Impossible: They Are Spending Even More Time On Apps — With Perilous Results

PART III Is Natural Law Theory Useful to Christians? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing

PART IV I’m Getting Married Today. Can You Give Me Advice For Our Future Together? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing

Thursday, August 11, 2022

PART I From ‘The Birds and the Bees’ to ‘Comprehensive Sex Education’: How Gender Theorists and Sexual Ideologues are Taking Aim at Parental Rights and Your Children in Public Schools

PART II In the Pronoun War, the Moral Revolutionaries Take No Prisoners — Even If the Offender is One of Their Own

PART III ‘Friends’ Producer Apologizes for ‘Misgendering’ Trans TV Character 21 Years Ago — Back When She Was Yet Unenlightened

Wednesday, August 10, 2022

PART I Are Americans Abandoning Religious Belief? Rethinking the Research on the Rise of Religious ‘Nones’ — It’s More Complex Than You Think

PART II Does Freud Explain Cancel Culture? A Steady State Understanding of Moral Judgments in a Secularizing World

PART III 60 Years Of the New Left: The Port Huron Statement and the Transformation of America — (And the Newer Left Leaving It Behind)

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

PART I Dangerous Precedent Raises Big Questions: What Justified Raid of Former President’s Residence? Is There A Good Answer? The Proof Better Come Fast

PART II Even Liberal Media Acknowledge the Inflation Reduction Act Will Not Actually Reduce Inflation: So Why Are Democrats Touting This as a Legislative Victory?

PART III ‘I’ve Kept the Most Interesting Company Imaginable with People Long Gone’: Prolific American Historian and Storyteller, David McCullough, Dies at 89

Monday, August 8, 2022

PART I Is Corporate America Lining Up Against Pro-Life Efforts? Big Business Pushes Back Against Pro-Life Momentum as the Fault Lines of U.S. Politics are Being Redrawn State by State

PART II The Most Pro-Abortion President in U.S. History is Not Pro-Abortion Enough for His Party? They Also Complain He Doesn’t Like to Use the Word ‘Abortion'

PART III It’s Monkey vs. Humans in Japan: The Nation Wrestles with a Macaque Problem—and the Macaques Are Getting Smarter

Friday, August 5, 2022

PART I We’re Living in Norman Lear’s America Now. But How Did We Get Here? — One Laugh, and Cringe, at a Time

PART II Prophet of the Evangelical Left: The Life and Legacy of Ron Sider

PART III Does Premillennialism Dissuade Christians from Political and Cultural Engagement? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV Can a Christian Young Man Join the Military and Serve Under Our Current Commander-in-Chief? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V Should Pastors Address the Dobbs Decision from the Pulpit? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI What Kind of Books Do You Like to Read? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Young Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, August 4, 2022

PART I Kansas Votes Down Constitutional Amendment to Defend Unborn Life — Is This a Foreshadowing of Things to Come? How did this happen?

PART II The Strange and Unpredictable Political Behavior of Kansas: It Has a Long History

PART III “Assisted Appointment” as an Insider’s Game — Tracing How the Kansas State Bar Dominates Supreme Court Appointments

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

PART I Death from “Over the Horizon” — Top Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Killed by U.S. Drone Attack in Afghanistan

PART II Just War Theory and Modern (Fallen) Realities of Warfare: The Morality of Targeting Terrorists

PART III Nancy Pelosi Visit to Taiwan, Right or Wrong? ‘Strategic Ambiguity’ in a Fallen World

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

PART I The Moral Evasions of Monkeypox: A Parable of Our Times

PART II The Undeniable Stigma of Sin: Watch the Morality in the Vocabulary

PART III ‘Medical Education Goes Woke’: Critical Theory, Intersectionality, and the Age of Ideological Medicine

PART IV Is “Monkeypox” Discriminatory? Will Monkeys Now Suffer Stigma? Major Media Tackle the Biggest Questions of the Current Health Crisis