Monday, January 20, 2025

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To Preserve, to Protect, and to Defend the Constitution: Today is Inauguration Day in the United States

PART II

The Historic Legacy of Joe Biden: Joe Biden’s Long Political Career Beginning as Senator in 1972 and Ending as President in 2025

PART III

Controversial Decisions and Cognitive Decline: President Biden’s Final Months in Office

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Friday, January 17, 2025

PART I
Age-Verification for Pornography Goes Before SCOTUS: SCOTUS Hears Consequential Oral Arguments on Texas Porn Case – What Wasn’t Said is Just as Important as What Was Said
PART II
Limiting Porn Access is a Major Parental Responsibility: Christian Parents, We Cannot Entrust the Government to Limit Porn Access in Our Families

PART III
What Comfort is There for the Christian When an Unsaved Loved One Dies? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing
PART IV
Would Samson Have Lost His Supernatural Power If He Had Broken His Nazarite Vow By Drinking Alcohol? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 6-Year-Old Listener to The Briefing
PART V
How Should My Husband and I Approach Our Children's Social Media Access? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing
PART VI
Will the Republican Party Ever Return to its Former Policies? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing
PART VII
What is Voluntarism? How Does It Fit Within Scripture? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners to The Briefing
Thursday, January 16, 2025

PART I
President Biden’s Farewell Address: President Warns Against What He Called the "Tech-Industry Complex” and an “Oligarchy"
PART II
The Ceasefire Between Israel and Hamas: Agreement is Tentatively Reached in the Middle East

PART III
Cuba Off the State-Sponsored Terrorism List, For Now: President Biden Removes Cuba From Important List
PART IV
Starbucks is No Longer a Third Place: Famous Seattle Coffee Shop Chain is Changing One of Its Major Business Policies
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

PART I
Advice and Consent: Why Do Some Presidential Appointees Require Senate Confirmation?
PART II
Pete Hegseth’s Confirmation Hearing: The Defense Hearing of Trump’s Choice as Secretary of Defense Gets Interesting Fast

PART III
The Disappearing Middle of American Media Consumption: The Major Shift of Viewership From Older Media to Social Media Influencers
PART IV
A Look at the Adversary Press: The Media in Disagreement with Leadership in the White House Tends to Grow Its Base in Its Opposition
PART V
The Left is Lawyering Up: President-Elect Trump is Not Afraid to Sue for Defamation, and It’s Destabilizing Liberal Media

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The Briefing 09-12-17

PART I

Government is never neutral: A lesson in how bureaucracy really works

PART II

Search-and-destroy mission in Iceland as babies with Down syndrome are nearly eliminated

PART III

Kate Millett’s legacy: A worldview that sees family as a problem cannot but end in sadness

The Briefing 09-11-17

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What the unpredictability of a hurricane says about human vulnerability

PART II

Dependence on technology revealed as many are in the dark after Hurricane Irma

PART III

New York Times amazed that hurricane strengthens, rather than weakens Christians’ faith

PART IV

In the face of nature’s chaos, New York Times asks, “Why can’t we stop asking 'Why?'”

The Briefing 09-08-17

PART I

Religious liberty under fire in a hearing of the United States Senate

PART II

Physician assisted suicide is not a fundamental human right, says New York court

PART III

Why one federal sex education program has more to do with morality than money

PART IV

The redefinition of childhood as sales of Lego products decline

The Briefing 09-07-17

PART I

The fate of the Reformation in Western Europe, 500 years later

PART II

The legacy of nominal Protestantism and cultural Christianity

PART III

A significant number of atheists in the United Kingdom don’t find atheism intellectually satisfying

PART IV

Mayor of New York City tells us what he really believes and it’s unvarnished socialism

The Briefing 09-06-17

PART I

Why policy questions and constitutional questions aren’t always one and the same

PART II

What should our priorities be in the aftermath of the White House’s decision on DACA?

PART III

The soul of a civilization as Europe tends toward childlessness

PART IV

Messianic message forbidden in China as Communist Party bans Handel’s Messiah

The Briefing 09-05-17

PART I

Lessons small become lessons large: North Korean threat reveals necessity of stability and order

PART II

The strength of relationships vs. the fragility of stuff in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey

PART III

Two rival visions of Christianity on display in the response to the Nashville Statement

The Briefing 09-01-17

PART I

Princess Diana: Not only a pop culture icon, but also a driver of the moral revolution

PART II

Hurricane Harvey tests the vocabulary of meteorology

PART III

Courage under fire: How a kindly grandmother who turned out to be an important WWII spy

The Briefing 08-31-17

PART I

The new functionalist understanding of religion and how it contrasts with biblical Christianity

PART II

Finding refuge in the muddled middle: What can we learn from responses to the Nashville Statement?

PART III

Knowledge vs. Faith: Is there a new chasm in American intellectual and religious life?

PART IV

Should children be told that they can be anything they want to be?

The Briefing 08-30-17

PART I

Evangelical coalition releases Nashville statement, a manifesto on biblical sexuality

PART II

Nowhere to hide: Church faces unavoidable questions on issues of sexuality

PART III

Why the human scale is the most important scale when it comes to Hurricane Harvey

The Briefing 08-29-17

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Harvey dumps over 9 trillion (and counting) gallons of water on Texas. What does this mean?

PART II

Is marriage just an ‘evolving institution’? One Australian political figure thinks so

PART III

‘X’ marks the spot: Canada adds third gender category to passports

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