Monday, November 28, 2022

PART I Corruption, Bribery, Migrant Labor, LGBTQ Debates, and Alcoholic Beverages: Controversy Arises Over FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

PART II Is the National Sports Stage Only for (Hypocritical) Western Democracies?: Qatar’s Public Case for Hosting the World Cup

PART III ‘Sportswashing’ and ‘Performative Moral Outrage‘: FIFA World Cup Brings Clash of Worldviews to the World Stage

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

PART I From Frozen TV Dinners to Turkey Ice Cream: How Turkey Turned into a Year-Round Staple of the American Diet

PART II ‘Thanksgiving Offers a Moment to Appreciate Whatever Good This Year Wrought, Even If by Accident or Chance.’: The Emptiness of a Secular Humanist Thanksgiving

PART III ‘A Heart Without Thankfulness Can Never Be a Godward Heart’: The Imperative of Proper Christian Thankfulness

PART IV ‘Blessing and Glory and Wisdom and Thanksgiving and Honor and Power and Might be to Our God Forever and Ever!’: The Centrality of Christian Thankfulness

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

PART I Conservatism Without Theism Will Not Long Last: Secular Worldviews Cannot Lastingly Support Truths that Require Conserving

PART II Pluralism Is Not Enough, Same-Sex Marriage Cannot Be Affirmed: The Parable of David French

PART III This Is How Conservatism Dies: If Marriage is Not Conserved, Nothing Genuinely Conservative Can Last

Monday, November 21, 2022

PART I ‘You Cannot Defy Creation Without Tremendous Cost to the Creature’: Medical Authorities Question Use of Puberty Blockers for ‘Transgender’ Youth

PART II The Research on Damage of Hormone Therapy for Minors Is Not New, So Why is the Medical Establishment Just Now Acknowledging It?

PART III ‘I Wish There Had Been More Questions’: The Problem of the Morality of Harm

PART IV The New York Times Is Raising the Alarm on Puberty Blockers — How Long Until Others Follow?

Friday, November 18, 2022

PART I 1 Out of 8 Americans Have Been Given Prescriptions for Antidepressants — Are We Really at the Point Where the Modern Age Just Equals Depression?

PART II ‘Puppies on Prozac and Cats on CBD’ : Evidently Our Pets Are Now as Anxious as We Are

PART III Why Is It Okay to Euthanize Our Sickly Pet But Never Right to Euthanize People? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from Young Listener of The Briefing

PART IV If the Fall Had Not Happened, How Could the Earth Have Provided for Population That Would Grow Exponentially And Never Die? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V Why Did Georgia’s Senate Election Go to a Run-Off When the Republican Governor Won So Decisively? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI Why Is It So Hard to Share the Gospel? Does Loving People Mean That We Respect Their Choices Even When Bad? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 14-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART VII Why Did God Refer to Himself as ‘We’ in the Old Testament? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, November 17, 2022

PART I Twelve Republicans Voted in Favor in Respect for Marriage Act — But Redefining Marriage Is Profoundly Not Conservative

PART II New Congressional Leadership Comes Into View: Why Does This Matter and Why Is the Road Ahead So Troubled?

PART III Mass Cultural Confusion, Government Failure, and a Gospel Opportunity for the Church: Encouragement for Christians in a Society of Moral Revolt

PART IV Issue of Abortion Goes Before Kentucky’s Supreme Court: But Abortion Rights Are Not, and Never Were, in the State’s Constitution.

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

PART I These Elections Matters Massively But You Have No Vote: Who Will Become Speaker of the House, Senate Majority Leader, and President Pro Tempore?

PART II The Mormon Church Comes Out in Official Support of the Respect for Marriage Act — Big Theological Issues Are in Play Here, and History, Too

PART III The Epimenides Paradox Arises Anew as the Two Most Powerful Spies in the World Meet Together — And That’s No Lie

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

PART I No Genuine Conservative Can Support This: The U.S. Senate to Vote on So-Called ‘Respect for Marriage’ Act to Codify Same-Sex Marriage as Law of the Land

PART II A Direct Assault on Religious Liberty: The So-Called ‘Respect for Marriage’ Act — We Need to Take Names on Who Is Behind Republican Moral Relativism

PART III Be Fruitful and Multiply…Or Else: World Population Reaches 8 Billion People — Is It a Good Thing or a Cause for Concern?

Monday, November 14, 2022

PART I Barely a Red Ripple? Democrats Claim Thin Majority in the Senate. We Await Further Word on House Races

PART II Go Figure: New Research Shows Married Couples Have Greater Financial Wealth Than Cohabiting Couples — And Sociologists are Scratching Their Heads as to Why

PART III ‘Republicans Traded the Election of 2022 for a Generational Goal’: The Reversal of Roe. Was It Worth It?

PART IV A News Story with a (Very) Weird Twist: Norwegian Princess Relinquishes Royal Duties to Marry American Celebrity Shaman

Friday, November 11, 2022

PART I In Historic Turn, Benjamin Netanyahu to Lead Israel Again: What Does Bibi’s Return to Power Mean for Israel?

PART II Why Do You Consider Salvation By Grace Alone an Essential Doctrine? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART III If Marriage is Supposed to Be a Monogamous Relationship Between a Man and a Woman, Why Did Many of the Old Testament Patriarchs Practice Polygamy? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV Can You Clarify the Distinctions Between The Right and Conservatism (and The Left and Liberalism)? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V Why Don’t Muslims in the West Face the Same Religious Liberty Issues as Christians? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing