Wednesday, March 9, 2022

PART I Impact of War in Ukraine Starts to Hit Close to Home as U.S. Shuts Off All Energy Imports from Russia: What Does All This Mean?

PART II ‘We Must Not Trade One Dictator for Another’: Is Buying Petroleum From Venezuela Morally Better Than Buying From Russia?

PART III The Power of Entertainment Culture: Disney CEO Avoids Public Statement on Florida ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Citing Storytelling as a Better Change Agent in Society

PART IV “Ethical Non-Monogamy”: Redefinition of Marriage and Revolution of Polyamory Trickles Down into Moral Advice Column

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

PART I The ‘Breadbasket of Europe’ is Endangered: War in Ukraine Threatens Global Food Supply, Possibly for Years to Come

PART II Stand with Dictators and You Will Fall with Them: There Is No Separation of Culture and Morality — The Case of a Russian Orchestra Conductor With Time on His Hands

PART III The Cannabis Culture Has No Brakes: California State Fair Officials Establish Competition Category for Most Potent Marijuana. Are They High?

PART IV The Spreading Logic of Gambling: Sports Betting Arrives as the Latest Temptation

Monday, March 7, 2022

PART I Tracking Developments in Ukraine: U.S. Declines Zelenskyy’s Request for a No-Fly Zone and Putin Criminalizes Any Citizen Who Refers to Russia’s War in Ukraine as ‘War’

PART II ‘Taking Dictators Literally and Seriously’: Putin Stated Clearly His Determinations over Ukraine — Will the World Learn to Take Dictators at Their Word?

PART III Two Contradictory Moralities Evident in One Nation: Two States (California & Florida) Present Polar Opposite Laws on Abortion Access in Preparation for Possible Overturning of Roe v. Wade

PART IV SCOTUS Votes to Reinstate Federal Death Penalty in Boston Marathon Terror Case , but President Biden has Threatened to Block Any Executions — What is at Stake?

Friday, March 4, 2022

PART I Reordering the Justice System in the Name of Social Justice by Redefining the Role of the District Attorney — And Attempts to Recall Leftist Prosecutors

PART II Does Peter’s Command to Honor Authority Include Evil Leaders? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART III Is Sexual Orientation or Sexual Behavior Outside of God’s Design Sin? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV When God Commanded Israel to Invade the Canaanites, Was That a Precedent for Other Nations? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, March 3, 2022

PART I Christian Just War Theory: Some Principles for Thinking Christianly in Light of Attacks on Civilian Areas in Ukraine

PART II War in Ukraine Brings a Return to Objective Truth in Post-Christian Europe: The Sobering Reality of War and Moral Urgency to Confront Truth

PART III The Oligarch Paradox: So What is Oligarchy, and What’s behind the Western Strategy to Force Russia's Oligarchs to Suffer?

PART IV Various Aspects of Culture Coalesce around a Moral Judgment as FIFA and the Metropolitan Opera Cancel Russia: The Inescapability and Comprehensiveness of the Biblical Worldview

Wednesday, March 2, 2022

PART I The State of the Union Address and America’s Constitutional Order: President Joe Biden Delivers State of the Union Address to the Nation

PART II Governor Greg Abbott Set to Face Beto O’Rourke in Epic Texas Gubernatorial Race — Upcoming Midterm Elections Will Determine Who Sits in Many Governorships

PART III Precedents Should Stand Even if Wrong? What is the Point of the Supreme Court if It Stands on Its Mistakes Rather than the Constitution?

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

PART I ‘I Need Ammunition, Not A Ride’: A Profile of Moral and Political Courage In Ukraine as Brave Nation Continues to Hold Off Russia’s Invasion

PART II Historic Day for Abortion Issue as Vote on Women’s Health Protection Act—Radical Pro-Abortion Legislation—Fails to Move Forward in U.S. Senate

PART III What is Behind the “Women’s Health Protection Act?” A Bill Far More Radical Than Roe v. Wade and an Attempt at a Complete Reversal of Pro-Life Movement’s Progress of the Last Half Century

PART IV New Research Shows Half of U.S. Abortions Now Performed by Pill in Ominous Development for Life in the Womb

PART V Political Drama Played Out Before Our Eyes: President Joe Biden to Deliver First State of the Union Address and First Primary Election in Texas in Important Day for the American People

Monday, February 28, 2022

PART I A Medieval Mind with Modern Nuclear Weapons: Grappling with Vladimir Putin’s Worldview and the Deadly Danger of Autocracy

PART II Elections Have Consequences: President Joe Biden Nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to Fill the Seat of Justice Stephen Breyer

PART III Who is and is Not Pro-Life? Who Is Pro-Abortion? Each Senator to be Forced to Cast Vote on National Abortion Bill in What Will be a Telling, Historic Day for the Abortion Question in America

Friday, February 25, 2022

PART I A New World Order?: A Dream Now Dead with Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

PART II The Looming Long, Protracted Struggle of Ukrainian Independence — But How Long Will Western Resolve Last if Ukraine’s Struggle Creates Hardships for the Western Economies?

PART III The Dark and Harsh Realities of a Life in a Fallen World: The New Vladimir the Terrible Makes His Monstrosity Clear

PART IV How Do You Respond to Those Who Argue that the Incarnation Implies that God is Not Immutable? Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V Can Christians Support the American Revolution? How Should Christians Understand an Illegitimate Government? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI How Do You Record So Early in the Morning? Do You Ever Have to Edit Bloopers? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, February 24, 2022

PART I ‘A Success Only Because They Were Not An Abject Failure’: Cheating, Totalitarianism, and the Compromised Morality of 2022 Beijing Games

PART II The Conscience, Rule of Law, and the Over-Reaching State: Protests in Canada and Now Coming to the U.S. — How Should Christians Think?

PART III SCOTUS Takes Up Religious Liberty Case over Wedding Web Designer — Will It Defend Religious Liberty and Free Speech?

PART IV Male and Female in Scare Quotes?: The Moral Decline of our Civilization Summarized in a Retirement Column in the New York Times