Tuesday, October 4, 2022

PART I Rebuilding Challenges and Costs, Opportunism and Moral Corruption, Big Government and Bi-Partisan Political Cooperation: The Paradoxical (And Urgently Important) Aftermath of Hurricane Ian

PART II Why Don’t Humans Evacuate When They are Warned of a Natural Disaster?: Human Nature, ‘Anchoring,’ and Our False Sense of Security in a Fallen World

PART III A Russian Czar with Nuclear Weapons Backed into a Corner: Vladimir Putin in Vulnerable State as War in Ukraine Slips Through His Fingers

PART IV 125 People Killed During Indonesian Soccer Match: Why Do Sporting Events Spark Such Violent Riots? — The Answer Can Never Be Merely Anthropological

Monday, October 3, 2022

PART I When Doctrine Collides With Politicians—California Seems to Be Ground Zero

PART II Blasphemy on a Billboard: Governor Gavin Newsom Manages to Reach a New Low

PART III ‘Please Respond to the Gospel, Turn to Christ, and Use Your Office to Advance the Cause of Righteousness Instead of Undermining It’: Pastor John MacArthur’s Message to California Governor Newsom

Friday, September 30, 2022

PART I Amendment 2 Brings an Urgent Vote for Life to Kentucky Ballots — We are About to Find Out How Serious Kentuckians are About the Sanctity and Dignity of Human Life

PART II The Warnings about Hurricane Ian were Justified and Horrifyingly Actualized: A Call to Prayer for Florida

PART III Can You Explain the Schisms We See Between Conservatives Right Now? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV How Can I Be a Responsible Voter? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V What is our Soul? And How Do We Love God with All of Our Soul?— Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 5-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Thursday, September 29, 2022

PART I A Massive Storm of Catastrophic Proportions: Hurricane Ian Hits Florida

PART II A Bloodthirsty (And Strange) Form of Works Righteousness: Patriarch Kirill Argues a Russian Soldier’s Death on the Ukrainian Battlefield Washes Away His Sins

PART III ‘Lord, in My Luggage I Have Scripture That I Want to Take to Your Children Across This Border’: Brother Andrew, ‘God’s Smuggler,’ Dies at 94

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

PART I Can California Become Even More Pro-Abortion? Governor Newsom Signs 13 New Bills to Increase Access to Abortion

PART II ‘I Don’t Want Your God in Charge of My Health Care’: The Secular Left Hates Catholic Hospital Systems — A Warning to Us All

PART III ‘A Woman Should Have the Same Right as a Man to Not Be Pregnant’: The Argument of Roe v. Wade Makes It to the Front Page of the Sports Section of USA Today

Tuesday, September 27, 2022

PART I Cuba Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage—A Big Story Behind the Headlines in the Communist Nation

PART II ‘The Book’s Literary Value Overrides Scenes Involving Nudity and Sex’: Pornographic LGBTQ Book Stays on the Shelves in Kentucky School District — So Who Determines Literary Value?

PART III Parents, Don’t Leave it to the Professionals: Moral Knowledge In Literature and the Responsibility of Christian Parents to Faithfully Steward What Their Children Read

Monday, September 26, 2022

PART I An Ominous Turn in the War of Ukraine: Russia Threatens Use of ‘Tactical Nuclear Weapons’ — How Far is the US Willing to Go to Aid Ukraine?

PART II ‘Then the Eyes of Both were Opened, and They Knew That They Were Naked’: The Morality of Knowledge After the Fall — You Can’t Unknow What You Now Know

PART III ‘The History of the World Includes Very Few Retired Dictators’: The Predicament of Vladimir Putin and Danger of an Autocrat Backed into a Corner

PART IV Who Would Globally Police Russia and Hold It Accountable for Its Crimes? The Failure of the United Nations Was There from the Beginning

PART V The Shifting Political Tectonic Plates in Europe: Conservatives Win Italian Elections Likely Resulting in First Woman to Lead Italy’s Government

Friday, September 23, 2022

PART I ‘We Live in a Society of Unfiltered Liberalism, and It Functions Like a Religion’: The Religious Shape of Secularism

PART II Beaver Dams and the Glory of God: Some Farmers and Ranchers Change Their Minds About Beavers

PART III What Bible Verses Should Be the Basis of Law and Applicable to All People? What Commands are Applicable for Only Christians? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV Do We Concede the Point to the LGBTQ Agenda If We Use the Phrase "Biological Male?” — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V Do You Think That We Rely Too Much on the Simple Reading of the Text in our Bible Studies and Church Services? Should We Return to the Use of Art? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, September 22, 2022

PART I President Biden Says Pandemic is Over. The Left Cries NO: As President Biden Declares the End of the Pandemic, Why Isn’t His Own Administration Backing Him?

PART II Watch Out for the Moral Agenda of “Public Health” — Just Look at the Influence of Anthony Fauci

PART III New Data from the CDC Suggest Highest STI Rates in Years: But the Moral Dimension of Sex is Deliberately Excluded from Discussion

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

PART I What’s Missing from Banned Books Week in the US? Banned Books, Of Course — So What’s Behind All This?

PART II The Bottom Line of Banned Books Week: A Progressivist Agenda to Nullify Parental Rights

PART III Professions and Professional Associations Pushing Left Together: How the Media and Education Elites Influence Culture and Shape Morality

PART IV A Campaign Promise Fulfilled and a Win for Parents in Virginia: Glenn Youngkin Ends Policy that Allowed Schools to Conceal Transgender Transition of Students from Parents