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The Briefing 01-06-14

1. Extreme cold moves across the Midwest Deep South braces for deep freeze as brutal cold grips the Midwest, CNN (Holly Yan and Joe Sutton) 2. Boy Scouts started allowing gay members first of the year Scouting's incomplete Evolution, New ...

January 6, 2014

“The Only Intelligible Explanation of the Incarnation”—A. T. Robertson on the Virgin Birth of Christ

The Christmas season comes each year with the expected flurry of media attention to the biblical accounts of Christ's conception and birth. The general thrust of the secular media is often incredulity toward the fact that so many people still believe ...

December 27, 2013

The Briefing 12-20-13 – Final Briefing of the 2013 Season

This is the final Briefing of 2013. Dr. Mohler will be back January 6, 2014. We wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas. Thanks for listening! 1) Duck Dynasty controversy isn't over style - it's over substance What the Duck?, GQ Magazin ...

December 20, 2013

The Briefing 12-19-13

1) We didn't need to be told - Panel of leading journalists admit media has a liberal bias Journalist Consensus: Media Leans Left, Politico (Dylan Byers) Latest Coverage from the Church of the New York Times, Patheos.com (Terry Mattingly) ...

December 19, 2013

The Briefing 12-18-13

1) Mass evacuation of Christians from Middle East: "Christians are finished here" Iraq's battle to save its Christian souls: 'Christians are finished here' The Telegraph (Colin Freeman) Syria war fuels Christian flight from Middle East, BBC (Ke ...

December 18, 2013

TIME Chooses its “Person of the Year”—What Are We to Think?

TIME magazine has chosen its "Person of the Year" for 2013 and, to no real surprise, that person is Pope Francis I, the Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. The papacy, stated TIME, "is mysterious and magical," transforming "a septuagenarian ...

December 18, 2013

The Briefing 12-17-13

1) Pope Francis: TIME Person of the Year Pope Francis, The People’s Pope, TIME (Howard Chua-Eoan and Elizabeth Dias) 2) Despite the "Francis Effect," how much has really changed?  The Catholics Still in Exile, New York Times (Frank Bruni) ...

December 17, 2013

Moral Mayhem Multiplied—Now, It’s Polygamy’s Turn

As most Americans were thinking thoughts of Christmas cheer, a federal judge in Utah dropped a bomb on the institution of marriage, striking down the most crucial sections of the Utah statute outlawing polygamy. Last Friday, Judge Clark Waddoups of t ...

December 16, 2013

The Briefing 12-16-13

1) Horror in Arapahoe: How do we understand the human heart? Arapahoe High School shooting: Gunman intended to harm many at school, Denver Post (Kirk Mitchell, Jeremy Meyer and Sadie Gurman) Colorado shooting victim described as sweet, smart, a ...

December 16, 2013

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