Past Episodes

Thursday, October 2, 2025

PART I Brave New World, Part One: Scientists Have Developed Human Eggs From Skin Cells

PART II Brave New World, Part Two: Robotic IVF Makes the Headlines

PART III We are on the Precipice of Moral Disaster: The Alienation of Marital Sex from Human Reproduction Gains Even More Steam

PART IV ChatGPT Rolls Out Parental Controls: But Teenagers Can Bypass Them – That’s the Bigger Issue Here

PART V A Chatbot Culture War: Elon Musk Seeks to Change Grok’s ‘Left-Leaning Bias,’ and the Left Freaks Out

PART VI A.I. Legislation Continues: This is Going to be a Fight Parents Will Have to Have for a Long Time

Wednesday, October 1, 2025

PART I Lethality and the Department of War: Secretary Hegseth Seeks to Return the U.S. Military Back to Its Central Focus

PART II A Tragic Week for Mormons: A Horrific Shooting of a Mormon Chapel in Michigan and the Death of Its President

PART III Mormonism is Not Christianity: Our Mormon Neighbors Need the True Gospel of Jesus Christ

Tuesday, September 30, 2025

PART I A Serious New Plan to End the Gaza Conflict: President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu Announce Plan to End Gazan War – What Will Hamas Do?

PART II The Game of Government Shutdown: Republicans Make a Clean Proposal – Will Democrats Shut Down the Government?

PART III The Role of the Media in the Government Shutdown: The New Media Reality Demands Drama

PART IV Worth Noting: A Muslim Writer Wrestles with Erika Kirk’s Act of Forgiveness

Monday, September 29, 2025

PART I Netanyahu Before the U.N.: The Prime Minister of Israel Defends His Country’s Existence and Defense Before World Leaders (Some of Whom Left the Room)

PART II Palestine is Not (Yet) a Nation: Just Look at the Criteria for a Nationhood and Connect the Dots

PART III Should Israel Be Barred from the Eurovision Song Contest? The Question is More Important Than It Might First Appear

PART IV The NYC Mayoral Race Gets Even More Interesting: Mayor Eric Adams Withdraws from the Race

Friday, September 26, 2025

PART I Marriage Comes After Adult Milestones? It’s No Wonder We Face a Delay of Marriage Crisis

PART II If Charlie Kirk’s Shooter Repents and Turns to Christ, Would the Death Penalty Still Be Needed? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 9-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART III What About The Doctrine of Election? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV The Loss of a Bold and Faithful Brother in the Lord: The Death of Voddie Baucham, Jr.

Thursday, September 25, 2025

PART I Kamala Harris’s Memoir: The Words Former Vice President Harris Wants You to Remember Her By

PART II Kamala Harris’s Word Salad About Pete Buttigieg: Yes, Kamala Harris Said She Did Not Choose Pete Buttigieg Because He’s Gay

PART III Kamala Harris Takes Shots at Gov. Josh Shapiro: Harris Explains Why She Did Not Choose Shapiro as a Running Mate

PART IV Kamala Harris Brags About Her Abortion and LGBTQ Convictions: And the Left Keeps Moving Leftward

PART V How Important is the Vice President of the United States? The Complicated History of the Vice Presidency in Our Constitutional Order

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

PART I It’s General Assembly Time at the U.N.’s 80th Meeting: World Crises Are Fully on Display

PART II The United Nations is in a Free Fall: The U.N.’s Mass of Confusions

PART III No, There Isn’t a New Age of Autocracy at the U.N.: Autocracy Has Always Been A Part of the Picture

PART IV News Alert—There Is No Palestinian State: But Britain, Australia, Canada and France Say They Now Recognize a Palestinian State. Why?

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

PART I Putin’s New Aggression: Russia’s President is Pushing the Boundaries with NATO

PART II So Complementarianism is Harsh Now? Our Culture is Taking Aim at 2,000 Years of Biblical Conviction

PART III A Call to Raise Faithful Families: Protestant Evangelicals Need Stronger and Bigger Families

PART IV The Rise and Impending Fall of ‘Performative Men’: Men, Don’t Stoop to Impress the Women Who Don’t Want to Get Married

Monday, September 22, 2025

PART I The Remarkable Memorial Service for Charlie Kirk: Astounding Gospel Witness and Christian Testimony at One of the Largest Funerals in U.S. History

PART II What to Make of Charlie Kirk’s Funeral: This Was Not Just Civil Religion

PART III The Suspension of Jimmy Kimmel: He Did Not Lose First Amendment Rights

PART IV Big Conservative Alarms About ‘Hate Speech’: Conservatives Need to Make Very Careful Arguments

Friday, September 19, 2025

PART I The Real ‘Succession' Story: Rupert Murdoch Buys Out Three of His Children to Ensure the Continuation of His Conservative Media Empire

PART II More Media News: ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Late Night Show in After Charlie Kirk Comments

PART III Do Video Games Play a Role in the Violence of Young Men? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV What Do Some Conservatives Critique the ‘T’ of LGBTQ But Not the Rest of Its Ideology? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V ‘Our Son Claims to Be Dating a Woman, But We Have Our Doubts. What Do We Do?’ — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

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