Friday, January 13, 2023

PART I Governments Have Consequences, Especially Totalitarian Regimes: Just Consider China and its Current COVID Crisis

PART II Why Does God Seek Glory for Himself? Does That Make Him a Narcissist? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART III What is God’s Glory? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV Should Expectant Christian Parents Opt In or Out of Prenatal Genetic Testing? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V Roman Catholicism and Protestantism on the Trinity and Other Doctrines — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, January 12, 2023

PART I ‘Deferring to Parents Cannot Be Morally Justified’: Educator Group in U.S. Calls Teachers to Disregard Parental Rights on Issue of Gender Identity in Schools

PART II Who Should Be Allowed in Which Bathroom? Who Should Be Allowed on Which Team? — Transgender Revolutionaries Continue to Fight For Control Over Public Schools in Florida

PART III ‘Male, Female, or Other?’: U.S. Census Bureau Struggles with Ramifications of the LGBTQ Revolution

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

PART I So What Armed Rebellion? Theological Considerations of Rebellions Against Government

PART II Two Models of Revolutions in the Modern Age: What Conservatives Can Learn from the American and French Revolutions

PART III Most Teenagers Have Seen Online Pornography: The Unprecedented Moral Challenges of Digital Technology

Tuesday, January 10, 2023

PART I The Return of Doctor Population Bomb — Why Do the Media Seem to Want Such an Intellectually Discredited Doomsday Prophet to Be Vindicated?

PART II An Anti-Human Worldview Runs Rampant Through Our Culture: How Issues of Abortion Intersect with Those of Population Control and Make For a Deadly Combination

PART III Sometimes, the Death Penalty is the Right (and Righteous) Response: Biden’s Department of Justice Presses for Death Penalty in Terrorism Case, Even as the President Claims to Have Halted Federal Executions

PART IV One Who Worked to Save Lives and One Who Worked in a Death Camp: Juxtaposing Two Lives and Huge Moral Lessons

Monday, January 9, 2023

PART I The Insatiable Culture of Death Expands Its Reach: FDA Approves Retail Stores to Prescribe Abortion Pills

PART II A Defeat for Unborn Life and Sign of Challenges to Come: South Carolina’s Supreme Court Rules State’s Constitution Provision for Right to Privacy Includes Abortion

PART III A Strategy for the Abortion Announced in and by the Media? New York Times Publishes Editorial Board’s Abortion Manifesto

Friday, January 6, 2023

PART I ‘Teens Who Grow Up Checking Social Media Become Hyper Sensitive to Their Peers’: New Study Shows Social Media Use Changes Brain in Teens

PART II How Should Christians Think About IVF? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART III Does Life Begin at Fertilization In Utero or at Fertilization Regardless of the Location? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV If Blood is Such an Important Part of Atonement in the Sacrificial System, Why is Flour Acceptable for Those Who Cannot Afford Turtledoves or a Lamb? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a Seven-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART V Why Do You Think People So Harshly Attack the Doctrine of Penal Substitutionary Atonement? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI What Does the Bible Say about Education? Why Do We Put Such a Focus on High Academic Achievement in the Modern Age? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, January 5, 2023

PART I An Unprecedented Event in the History of the Roman Catholic Church: Pope Francis Set to Preside Over Benedict XVI’s Funeral

PART II When the Papacy Pushed Back Against the Increasingly Hostile, Secular Age: What Cardinal Ratzinger Taught Me About Confronting Liberal Protestantism

PART III The Dictatorship of Relativism and the Challenge of the Secular Age

PART IV The Criminologist Becomes a Criminal? In a Fallen World, Sinners Can Give Themselves to Sin Such That It Consumes Them. How Else Can We Understand a Criminologist Who Becomes a Serial Murderer?

Wednesday, January 4, 2023

PART I ‘When Does Life Start?’: The New York Times Asks One of Life’s Biggest Questions — How Should Christians Answer It?

PART II ‘Your Eyes Saw My Unformed Substance, You Knitted Me Together in My Mother’s Womb’: A Theological Argument for Affirming Life’s Beginning at Fertilization

PART III Just About Everything George Santos Claims About Himself is False — How Did the Media Miss This Scale of Fraud?

PART IV George Santos is Not the First Politician to Lie About His Past, But You Probably Won’t Hear That From the White House

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

PART I A Reshaped Landscape of Political Expression in the U.S.: Today Marks the Opening of the 118th Congress — We Must Watch It Closely

PART II The Passing of a Political Epoch: Nancy Pelosi’s Tenure as Speaker of the House Comes to an End

PART III Leaving the House (Far) More Liberal Than She Found It: The Political Legacy of Nancy Pelosi

Friday, December 16, 2022

PART I Buyer Beware, There’s Always a Worldview Story Behind Toys: American Girl Publishes Book Pushing Puberty Blockers to Adolescent Girls

PART II Why Did It Take So Long for God to Send Baby Jesus? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 3-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART III Should Churches Gather on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day This Year? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV Does Jesus Have Mary’s DNA? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V Why Is It Assumed That There Were Three Wisemen? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI Where Was Jesus Before He Was Conceived in Mary? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VII What Does Isaiah Mean When He Says that the Government Will Be on Jesus’ Shoulders? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing