Past Episodes

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

Tuesday, May 27, 2025

PART I Evil Seized an Opportunity in the U.S. Embassy: A Horrific Attack in the Name of ‘Free Palestine’ Leads to the Murder of Two Israeli Diplomats

PART II A ‘Fuller Way’ on LGBTQ Issues? Fuller Seminary Trustees Reaffirm Stance on Homosexuality – But How Will That Square with Its Faculty Members and Student Body Who are Affirming?

PART III There is No Third Way to Faithfulness: Every Christian Institution Must Resolve to Be Faithful to Scripture No Matter the Cost

PART IV The Boggle Puzzle Solved – Researcher Finally Solves the Mystery of Highest Possible Boggle Score

Friday, May 23, 2025

PART I Religious Liberty Was Hamstrung Yesterday: The 4-4 Split Led to a Major Religious Liberty Loss in Oklahoma

PART II The Left is Now Furious with Target: The Company Offended Many Christians With LGBTQ Advocacy, Now Target Backs Off DEI, and the Left is Losing Their Minds

PART III Why Don’t You Believe Churchill Was a Christian? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from a 15-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART IV What Does Fallen Asleep Mean in 1 Thessalonians 4:13? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from a 14-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART V In the Parable of the Soils, Do the Rocky Soil People Go to Hell? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letter from a 6-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART VI Can I Officiate the Wedding of Unbelievers? Should I Share the Gospel at That Wedding? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letter from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, May 22, 2025

PART I Feminism and Transgenderism at Odds: Lesbians Want to Be Liberated from the LBGT Revolution

PART II Creation Order Asserts Itself: Creation Order Breaks Through Everywhere, Even in the Wake of the Sexual Liberation Movement

PART III Decadence and Debauchery: The Absurdity of Gender Ideologies

PART IV The Disaster of ‘You are What You Look Like’ — Confronting a Dangerous and Seductive Claim

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

PART I Is the U.S. Fighting the Wrong War? The Complicated Nature of the U.S. Response to the Houthis

PART II Austin is a New Kind of Weird? Is the Texas Capital, A Blue Dot in a Red State, Changing its Color?

PART III The Parable of Radioactive Toothpaste: The Importance of Humility in the Modern Age

Tuesday, May 20, 2025

PART I Former President Biden Has Cancer - We are Praying for the Former President in Light of His Diagnosis

PART II Why Is Travel Not Producing World Peace? Cosmopolitanism Isn't Bringing People Together

PART III Global Peace Through International Law? No, Reason and Rules Are Not Enough to Bring Nations Together

PART IV The Preconditions of an Ordered Society: Haiti is Lacking the Foundational Necessities of an Ordered Society And an The Problem Cannot Be Solved by Military Intervention

PART V The Theological Foundation of a Rightly Ordered Society: Creation Order Must Be Established Before a Society Can Flourish

Monday, May 19, 2025

PART I A Massive Cover-Up from the White House: New Book Details the Cover-Up of Former President Joe Biden’s Cognitive Decline

PART II The History of Presidential Age Issues in the Oval Office: Should Raise Big Questions for Americans

PART III The Biblical Worldview and Age: The Bible Honors Elders, But It Also Includes the Need for Healthy Succession

PART IV President Trump’s Trip to the Middle East: The President’s Unique Form of Transactional Realism in Foreign Policy

Friday, May 16, 2025

PART I The Deaths of Two Heroic Code Breakers: Two Obituaries Reveal Two Women’s Heroic Lives From WWII That They Kept Secret For Decades

PART II Is It Wrong for a Woman to Hold the Title of Children’s Pastor? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART III When Seagulls and Raccoons Steal Food, Are They Sinning? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from an 11-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART IV What is the Most Important Symbolic Number in the Bible? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from an 8-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART V Is It Wrong to Use Other Words in Place of Curse Words? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from an 16-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART VI What are the Differences Between the Models of Biblical Counseling and Integrationism? What Dangers Do You See with Integration? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

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