Friday, January 21, 2022

PART I The Anniversary of Roe v. Wade Comes Sunday: It Arrives This Year With Hope of a Supreme Court Reversal

PART II 'The Power to Tax is the Power to Destroy’: Do Government Bureaucrats Get to Decide Who Is a True Minister of Your Church? Clarifying the Supreme Court’s Decision Not to Hear a Church’s Appeal

PART III How Can God Know Evil and Not Sin? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV How Does the Proposed Conversion Therapy Ban in Indiana Relate to the Equality Act? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V How Do You Define Conservatism? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI What Checks on Executive Power Belong to the People? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VII What Should Be the Position of Christians When It Comes to Supporting More Pro-Family Policies from the Government? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, January 20, 2022

PART I Why the Sharp Increase in Church-State Controversies in Recent Decades? It’s Not an Accident

PART II “If That’s Mistaken, and If We All Agree That’s Mistaken, What’s Left to Decide?”: Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments Over Denial of Christian Flag at Boston City Hall

PART III Supreme Court Denies Appeal and Sends an Important Message that the Government Will Not Decide Who is and Who is Not a Religious Minister

PART IV God’s Wonder Beyond Human Imagination and Control: Volcano Near Tonga Erupts with Fury—and with Global Consequences

PART V ‘Culture Is Really A Way That Hearts and Minds Are Changed’: New Director of American LGBTQ+ Provides Stunning Statement in How Moral Revolutions Happen

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

PART I ‘Ordinances and Resolutions Like This are Intended to Change the Culture’: Totalitarian Demands of the Sexual Revolution Collide with Religious Liberty in Indiana

PART II Counseling on the Basis of the Sufficiency and Authority of Biblical Truth: The Ministry of Biblical Counseling

PART III ‘Not Until We Can Take Care of Ourselves Will I Prioritize Them Over Us’: Billionaire NBA Owner Says Genocide of Uyghurs in China is Below His Moral Bottom Line

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

PART I ‘What We Know is That This is a Very Intelligent Terrorist.’: Aafia Siddiqui and Colleyville Synagogue Hostages

PART II Terrorism, the Depth of Human Depravity, and the Complex and Difficult Endeavor of Pursuing Justice in a Fallen World

PART III The ‘Latinx’ Controversy: The Worldview Implications of an Ideological Term Embraced by Media and Academic Elites, But Hated by Others

Monday, January 17, 2022

PART I Why Is There An MLK Jr. Day, and What Is Its Significance?

PART II ‘Power Has to Serve the Cause of Love’: Evaluating the Theological Influences of MLK Jr.’s and the Civil Rights Movement — And How the Theology of the BLM Movement Compares Today

PART III Dealing with History As It Happened: The Responsibility of Christians in Evaluating Difficult and Complex Figures in History

Friday, January 14, 2022

PART I Supreme Court Blocks Biden Administration’s Vaccine — With Big Constitutional Issued at Stake

PART II Elections Have Consequences: The Dark Legacy of Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, Whose Term Ends Tomorrow

PART III Is it biblical to pay pastors? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing

PART IV May Christians serve as organ donors? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing

PART V How should Christians handle cremains? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners Of The Briefing

Thursday, January 13, 2022

PART I Trans NYT Columnist Trumpets “Radical Normalcy of Trans ‘Jeopardy’ Winner.” But the Article Undermines the Argument — Normal Doesn’t Get a Headline

PART II Demands that Airlines Add Non-binary to Tickets — How Moral Change Rides (Flies) on Public Pressure

PART III The Parable of the Reformed Church in America—43 More Conservative Congregations Depart and the Total Membership Plummets

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

PART I President Biden, Voting Rights, and the Filibuster: What’s Behind the Atlanta Speech?

PART II Does Citizenship Mean Anything? New York City Gives 800,000 Noncitizens the Vote

PART III Nothing Lasts Forever: What Blackberry, Apple, General Motors, and Toyota Tell Us about the Transience of Earthly Existence

Tuesday, January 11, 2022

PART I In a Man’s Chest Beats a Pig’s Heart? Medical Science Moves Ahead — a Look at the Issues and Implications

PART II The Achievement and Limitations of Human Justice — Three Life Sentences for Killing Ahmaud Arbery

PART III Is School for the Students or for the Teachers Union? Look to Chicago for the Wrong Answer

Monday, January 10, 2022

PART I Another Munich Moment? The Threat of Putin’s Quest to Revive Russian Glory

PART II If You Ride a Tiger, It Will Be Hard to Get Off — Kazakhstan Calls in Russian Troops

PART III Children, Pets, and the Pope: Falling Birthrates and the Christian Worldview

PART IV A Brave Man Finally Vindicated: The Pardon of Homer Plessy