Tuesday, August 9, 2022

PART I Dangerous Precedent Raises Big Questions: What Justified Raid of Former President’s Residence? Is There A Good Answer? The Proof Better Come Fast

PART II Even Liberal Media Acknowledge the Inflation Reduction Act Will Not Actually Reduce Inflation: So Why Are Democrats Touting This as a Legislative Victory?

PART III ‘I’ve Kept the Most Interesting Company Imaginable with People Long Gone’: Prolific American Historian and Storyteller, David McCullough, Dies at 89

Monday, August 8, 2022

PART I Is Corporate America Lining Up Against Pro-Life Efforts? Big Business Pushes Back Against Pro-Life Momentum as the Fault Lines of U.S. Politics are Being Redrawn State by State

PART II The Most Pro-Abortion President in U.S. History is Not Pro-Abortion Enough for His Party? They Also Complain He Doesn’t Like to Use the Word ‘Abortion'

PART III It’s Monkey vs. Humans in Japan: The Nation Wrestles with a Macaque Problem—and the Macaques Are Getting Smarter

Friday, August 5, 2022

PART I We’re Living in Norman Lear’s America Now. But How Did We Get Here? — One Laugh, and Cringe, at a Time

PART II Prophet of the Evangelical Left: The Life and Legacy of Ron Sider

PART III Does Premillennialism Dissuade Christians from Political and Cultural Engagement? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV Can a Christian Young Man Join the Military and Serve Under Our Current Commander-in-Chief? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V Should Pastors Address the Dobbs Decision from the Pulpit? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI What Kind of Books Do You Like to Read? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Young Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, August 4, 2022

PART I Kansas Votes Down Constitutional Amendment to Defend Unborn Life — Is This a Foreshadowing of Things to Come? How did this happen?

PART II The Strange and Unpredictable Political Behavior of Kansas: It Has a Long History

PART III “Assisted Appointment” as an Insider’s Game — Tracing How the Kansas State Bar Dominates Supreme Court Appointments

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

PART I Death from “Over the Horizon” — Top Al-Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Killed by U.S. Drone Attack in Afghanistan

PART II Just War Theory and Modern (Fallen) Realities of Warfare: The Morality of Targeting Terrorists

PART III Nancy Pelosi Visit to Taiwan, Right or Wrong? ‘Strategic Ambiguity’ in a Fallen World

Tuesday, August 2, 2022

PART I The Moral Evasions of Monkeypox: A Parable of Our Times

PART II The Undeniable Stigma of Sin: Watch the Morality in the Vocabulary

PART III ‘Medical Education Goes Woke’: Critical Theory, Intersectionality, and the Age of Ideological Medicine

PART IV Is “Monkeypox” Discriminatory? Will Monkeys Now Suffer Stigma? Major Media Tackle the Biggest Questions of the Current Health Crisis

Monday, August 1, 2022

PART I Will Republicans Join the Revolution on Same-Sex Marriage? 47 Republicans in House Voted Yes. Now, Watch the Senate. How Did This Happen?

PART II Senator, Can a Man Be Pregnant? Two Worlds Collide as Berkeley Law Testifies Before Senate Committee

PART III The Great Divide in the American Moral Landscape: Those Who Believe A Baby in the Womb Has Value and Those Who Do Not — Where Will You Stand?

Thursday, June 30, 2022

PART I Looking Back and Looking Forward as This Season of The Briefing Comes to a Close — What To Watch for In the War of Ukraine

PART II Japan Understands What Marriage Is and Legislates Accordingly: Court Upholds Ban on Same-Sex Marriage and Affirms Procreation

PART III Two Reformed Denominations Make Important Moves to Defend Biblical Teaching on Homosexuality

PART IV ‘I’m Up for Some Pride Bocce.’: Former Bush Speech Writer Celebrates Pride Month, Questions Bible’s Teaching on Sexuality

PART V Watch the White House: Biden Administration Scrambles in Wake of Roe Reversal

PART VI New Zealand Moves to Tax Cow Burps. Seriously.

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

PART I The Irreducible and Unavoidable Question in Abortions Is This: Does the Inhabitant of the Womb Deserve Protection?

PART II With Roe Reversed, I’m Leaving! (Maybe): The Moral Absurdity of Threats to Leave the U.S. in the Wake of Dobbs

PART III The Reckoning of History: New U.S. Ambassador to Germany Visits Her Father’s Boyhood Home — Her Father Had Fled the Nazis in Fear of His Life

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

PART I A Win for Coach Kennedy, and for Religious Liberty: The Supreme Court Again Defends Free Exercise of Religion and Free Speech

PART II ‘The Constitution Neither Mandates Nor Tolerates That Kind of Discrimination’: The "Lemon Test" is Gone, and That’s a Good Thing

PART III Habeas Corpus and ‘Happy the Elephant’: Why Happy Did Not Get Her Day in Court — And What Was at Stake