Tuesday, June 10, 2025

PART I A ‘Regression’ on Gender? The Recoil to the Transgender Movement is Grounded in Creation Order, Not Merely a Speed Bump in Progressive History

PART II The Triumph of the Therapeutic and the Death of Family Ties: Therapy Culture is Causing Kids to Cut Their Relationships with Their Parents

PART III The Therapeutic Culture and the Tragedy of Childlessness: The Tie Between Therapy Culture and Falling Birth Rates

PART IV The Glory of God in the Birth of a Dolphin Calf: One Dolphin Mother Helps Another With Her Birth

Monday, June 9, 2025

PART I A Brief History of Pride Month and the Pride Flag – How Did This Happen, and What Does It Mean in 2025?

PART II A Few Corporations Back Off Pride Month: The U.S. Is Going to Need Much More to Return to Any Semblance of Sanity On This Issue

PART III Vietnam Has a Big Birth Rate Problem: Vietnam Attempts to Reverse the Disaster of Its 2-Child Policy

PART IV Birth Rate Issues are Fundamentally a Theological Problem: The Rejection of God’s Glory in Human Procreation Will Never Lead to Human Flourishing

Friday, June 6, 2025

PART I SCOTUS Unanimously Says Straight Woman Can Prevail in Reverse Discrimination Suit – This is a Victory for Common Sense Interpretation of the Law and the Constitution

PART II The Providence of God and the Eventual Defeat of Nazi Germany – Today Marks the 81st Anniversary of D-Day

PART III How Do We Reconcile the Desire to Leave a Powerful Legacy and the Biblical Command to Humility? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV Does God Love People Who are in Hell? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 6-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART V Is a Man Who Has an Unbelieving Wife Disqualified from Pastoral Ministry? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI What Does the Bible Say About Fishing? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, June 5, 2025

PART I Ukraine’s Surprise Drone Attack: Ukraine Launches Devastating Drone Attack on Russia’s Bomber Fleet – We are in a New Age of Asymmetrical Warfare

PART II America, You’ve Been Warned: The U.S. Needs to Take Ukraine’s Drone Attack on Russia as an Exposure of Our Own Vulnerabilities

PART III So Many Parents are ‘Unschooling’ Their Children – What Does It Mean, and What’s Behind It?

PART IV There’s More to ‘Unschooling’ Than the Left Wants You to Believe – Watch Out for the Elites Looking to Regulate Your Children’s Education

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

PART I Europe Has a Huge Free Speech Problem: Europe is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Saving Democracy

PART II What is Happening in Finland Will Not Stay in Finland: Americans Need to Closely Watch the Free Speech Case of Paivi Rasanen in Finland

PART III A Dark and Deadly Legacy: Étienne-Émile Baulieu, the Creator of the Abortion Pill, Dies at 98

PART IV A Prominent NT Scholar Justifies an Abortion in the Case of Rape and Incest? The Big Issues with NT Wright’s Recent Comments on Abortion

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

PART I What’s Going On Between the U.S. and Europe? Europe Appears to Be Rethinking Its Relationship with the U.S. and Its Attraction to ‘Traditional Values’

PART II How Do You Get Rid of a Party Which Came in Second in a Recent Election? Germany’s Attempt to Squelch AfD For Being Too ‘Far Right’

PART III The Parable of Notre Dame Cathedral: Once a Wonder of Christian Truth and Transcendence Has Become a Secular Symbol in France

Monday, June 2, 2025

PART I Prisoners Should Not Be Able to Choose Their Gender: Allowing Biological Men in Women’s Prison Leads to Even More Harm for Women in Prison Says UN Official

PART II No, Don’t Give Staff Extra Breaks to Hide Their Biology: The Massive Problem in Suggested Transgender Guidelines from UK

PART III The Justice Department Puts Pressure on Gov. Newsom: Trump Administration Will Look Into Title IX Violations With Transgender Athletes in California

Friday, May 30, 2025

PART I The Moral Significance of Bricks: The Dark and Weighty Reality of Living in a Town Built for Nazis

PART II Ed Smylie, Who Saved Apollo 13 Crew, Dies at 95 – And Duct Tape Was Crucial for the Success of His Heroic Act

PART III If Marriage is a Good, God-Ordained Institution, Why Does the Apostle Paul Say That It Can Be a Hindrance to Ministry? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV Is ‘5 Solas’ an Oxymoron? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V How Can We Know That What We Know is Correct? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, May 29, 2025

PART I Why Has President Trump Has Declared War on Harvard? An Open Challenge to a Bastion of the Educational Elites

PART II ‘Trust Us, We Won the Johan Skytte Award’: The Self-Congratulatory Condescension of the Academic Elites

PART III President Trump Changed the Political Landscape: Americans Now Believe That Republicans Represent the Working Class, and Democrats Represent the Elites

PART IV ‘Be Normal. Sound Normal.’: Democrats are Attempting to Dump Their Woke Jargon, But Not Their Woke Ideologies– But It’s Not Working

PART V Woke Education is the Left’s Agenda: The Left Wants Your Kids, and They are Targeting Them Through Schools

Wednesday, May 28, 2025

PART I So Who Knew What When About Biden’s Cognitive Decline? ‘Original Sin’ Has Revised History and Is Raising Big Questions About Who’s Responsible for This Cover-Up

PART II The ‘Unreliable Boyfriend’ Problem? UK Prime Minister Starmer Appears to Have a Conviction Problem

PART III Christian Leadership is a Call to Conviction – God’s People Need Convictional Leadership