PART I

The Plane Didn’t Survive, But the Passengers Did: In Light of the Plane Crash in Toronto, We Must Learn from What Goes Right, and Not Just What Goes Wrong

PART II

Does Genesis 3:24 Point to God’s Creation of the First Weapon? If So, What Does That Tell Us About Humans Advancing Weapons Technology? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 17-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART III

What is the History of the Phrase ‘Asking Jesus Into Your Heart,’ and Why Is It So Widely Used? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV

I Agree With What You Said About Certain Kinds of Books Not Being Present in Public Schools Libraries, But Wouldn’t That Include the Bible As Well? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V

What Happens When a Senator or Member of the House Becomes a Part of the President’s Cabinet? Who Takes Their Place? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI

If Adam Named All the Animals, How Did He Name the Sea Creatures If He Did Not Live By the Ocean? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 7-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART VII

Can I Sin in My Dreams? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VIII

How Do I Confront My College Classmates About Their Wrong Views on LGBTQ Issues? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IX

What Was God Doing Before Time Existed? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 7-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Past Episodes

Thursday, January 9, 2025

PART I Former President Carter’s State Funeral Today: What to Look For in the Funeral Service as Our Nation Mourns the Loss of a President

PART II We are Witnessing the Largest and Deadliest Fire in LA County History: Absolute Devastation to Human Lives and Civilization as Fires Rip Through Southern California

PART III Meta Drops Fact-Checking: Mark Zuckerberg Announces Significant Change to Censorship Policies Across Meta’s Social Media Platforms

PART IV A Single Bluefin Tuna Just Sold for $1.3 Million in Japan – That’s A Lot of Sushi

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

PART I Sorry It Happened? : Azerbaijan Furious that Putin Refuses to Admit Russian Military Attacked Airliner on Christmas Day

PART II Biology is Not Bigotry—Amen: Prominent Evolutionary Scientist Causes Controversy by Denying a “Trans Woman” is a Woman

PART III The Trans Prisoner Experiment That Didn’t Last: Washington Moves Trans Woman Back to Men’s Prison – For Obvious Reasons (To Most of Us)

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

PART I Canada’s Liberal Prime Minister Is Out: Justin Trudeau Announces Resignation as He and His Party Faced Electoral Disaster

PART II Florida, New York, and the ‘Flailing Left’: What the Juxtaposition of the Two States Reveals about the Crisis of Progressive Government

PART III A Political Controversy from a Cartoonist? The Washington Post Refuses to Run Cartoon of Bezos Bowing to Trump – But Bezos Owns The Post

Monday, January 6, 2025

PART I The Threat of Terrorism on American Streets: A Deadly Domestic Terrorist Attack in New Orleans and a Car Bomb Outside Trump Hotel in Las Vegas — Both on New Year’s Day

PART II Speaker Johnson Wins Re-Election, But Is His Victory Fragile? Republicans Stay the Course After Dramatic Vote

PART III The Death of Florida’s 23-Day Governor: Buddy MacKay Dies at 91

Monday, December 30, 2024

PART I Special Edition of The Briefing: Former President Jimmy Carter Dies at 100

PART II A Life on the World Stage: The Political Career of Former President Jimmy Carter

PART III Jimmy Carter’s Understanding of Biblical Authority, the Southern Baptist Convention, and Evangelical Identity

PART IV The Evangelical Opposition to Jimmy Carter: The Progressivist Views Held by the Former President Set Him at Odds with Evangelicals

Friday, December 20, 2024

PART I A Protestant Christmas: How Protestants Came to Celebrate the Incarnation of Christ as Christmas

PART II How Do We Understand Promise and Fulfillment in Matthew’s Use of Hosea 11:1? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing

PART III In Light of Jesus’s Fulfillment of the Law, Are Christians Still Required to Keep the Mosaic Law? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing

PART IV Why Do We Not Sing More Hymns About the Incarnation Throughout the Year, Like We Do with the Resurrection? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing

PART V Can a Baby Fuss Without Sin? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letter from a (Probably Sleep-Deprived) Listener to The Briefing

PART VI If Jesus was Born on Christmas, How Was He Around While Adam and Eve Lived? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 6-Year-Old Listener to The Briefing

PART VII How Should Christians Celebrate Christmas While Also Separating It From Any Pagan Origins? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing

Thursday, December 19, 2024

PART I How the Collapse of Germany’s Government Could Be a Foreshadowing: What Happens in Germany is Important to Christian in the U.S. and in the World

PART II The Big Problem of Underperformance in the UK: It Doesn’t Matter If You Have an Empire If You Can’t Flush the Sewers

PART III The UK’s Final Ruling on the Cass Review: The U.S. Needs to Heed the Warnings Over Transgender Procedures on Minors from Britain

PART IV No, Disney, Parents Do Not Want Transgender Storylines: Pixar Pulls Transgender Storyline From Upcoming Series

PART V Judge Rules Transgender Teaching in Schools Violate Parental Rights: The Sexual Revolution is Colliding with Parental Rights, Religious Liberty, and More

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

PART I There are Deeply Troubled People Among Us: The Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely Case Raises Massive Mental Health Issues in NYC and Beyond

PART II President Biden’s Reckless Clemency Commutations: President Biden Grants Shocking and Controversial Clemency Commutations

PART III Salvation is Not a Pardon or Commutation: At the Heart of the Gospel is the Substitutionary Atonement of Christ on Our Behalf

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

PART I Parents, Talk to Your Teens About Pornography: But Ground Your Words in Christian Truth — not in Secular “Science"

PART II Pornography Restrictions Are Not Government Overreach: Arguments Against Pornography Blocks for Teens Reveal a Huge Moral Problem

PART III Americans Are Failing at Life’s Basic Tasks? The Breakdown of the Family is Reverberating Through Society, Harm After Harm

Monday, December 16, 2024

PART I The Looming Danger of Young Man on the Internet: Details of the Arrest of Luigi Mangione Raises Big Issues of Young Men Negatively Influenced by Online Ideologies and Activism

PART II The Murder of a Healthcare CEO is Not a Close Call in Morality: Murder is Never ‘Understandable But Unjustifiable’

PART III The Barrenness of Ethics Without God: Secularism is Not Sufficient For Carrying the Moral Load of Ethics

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