Past Episodes

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

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

PART I December 1, 2021: A Day to Go Down in History As Supreme Court Hears Most Important Abortion Case In A Generation

PART II History and Constitutionality of Abortion Debate in American Public Life: What Led to Roe v. Wade in 1973? And How Did We Get to Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in 2021?

PART III Is There A Religious Basis For Abortion Rights? — The Religious Left Contends for the Right to Terminate the Unborn

Tuesday, November 30, 2021

PART I Celebrity New Age Spiritualism: Emotional Resonation Over Truth —And It’s Not Cheap

PART II ‘Why Consult the Dead on Behalf of the Living?’: How Should Christians Think About (New Age) Mediums?

PART III Mixture of Theological Clarity and Confusion From New Pew Study On Beliefs About Heaven and Hell Shared By American People

PART IV Revenge of the Fatbergs — Things You Didn’t Know (And Might Not Have Expected on The Briefing)

Monday, November 29, 2021

PART I Looking Forward: National Divide Coming to Decisive Moment as Supreme Court Set to Hear Oral Arguments over Abortion Case on Wednesday

PART II Looking Backward: Three Men Found Guilty of Murder of Ahmaud Arbery — What Was At Stake in This Case for the U.S. Justice System?

PART III Why So Many Types of Murder in Our Justice System? And What Makes Murder Murder?

PART IV What’s Behind Whether You Think Rising Gas Prices Is a Big Deal— That’s Right, Worldview Matters

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

PART I Gratitude Without Grace in a Secular Culture: How Can Thankfulness Have Meaning Without God?

PART II The Heart of Sin and Rebellion Against God: Ingratitude — ‘They Did Not Honor Him as God Nor Give Thanks to Him’

PART III To Whom Are We Thankful for the Wondrous Gift of Life? Thankfulness as a Christian Apologetic

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