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Friday, October 31, 2025

PART I

The Christian Worldview Honors History: The Christian Understanding of History Contrasted With Recent Headlines

PART II

Is It Hypocritical to Read Harry Potter and Not Celebrate Halloween? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing

PART III

How Should I Respond to Gruesome Halloween Decorations as a Christian Father? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
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New Haven, USA - May 4, 2015: Yale University campus on April 4, 2015. It is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701

Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018

PART I

Yale offers a course on happiness which the professor suggests students should take pass-fail

PART II

Adult happiness linked to Research indicates adult happiness is linked to marriage in a way it is not linked to cohabitation

PART III

Signs of the times as our society is increasingly dabbing, dropping, and doping
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 30: U.S. President Donald J. Trump delivers the State of the Union address in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives January 30, 2018 in Washington, DC. This is the first State of the Union address given by U.S. President Donald Trump and his second joint-session address to Congress. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018

PART I

On the most important of all political stages President Trump strikes a different note, even as there are few surprises

PART II

New debates about homeschooling take on a new urgency

PART III

As Murphy Brown returns we have to ask, “Will she even be interesting today?”

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 05: A sign awaits Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) before he introduces the Senate version of the 'Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act' before a news conference with leaders from anti-abortion groups in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill October 5, 2017 in Washington, DC. Graham's bill is the companion legislation to House of Representatives' version, which passed earlier this week by a vote of 237 to 189. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018

PART I

What’s at stake in historic vote in the United States Senate on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

PART II

How science is used in today’s contentious cultural debates

PART III

State of the Union preview: What to watch for as President Trump addresses joint session of Congress
NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 05: A Planned Parenthood location is seen on August 5, 2015 in New York City. The women's health organization has come under fire from Republicans recently after an under cover video allegedly showed a Planned Parenthood executive discussing selling cells from aborted fetuses. (Photo by Andrew Burton/Getty Images)

Monday, Jan. 29, 2018

PART I

Planned Parenthood loses its leader in pushing the culture of death

PART II

Reality sets in among Americans on question of LGBT rights

PART III

Lament over divorcing sex from love falls tragically short
Friday, Jan. 26, 2018

Friday, Jan. 26, 2018

PART I

Big news from China reveals threats to human dignity and the cracking of the worldview in the West

PART II

As monkeys are cloned in China we recognize that what happens in China won’t stay in China

PART III

What the depersonalization of dating tells us about the next generation
Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018

Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018

PART I

An amazing testimony to the gospel, to the reality of good and evil, and to Christian truth in a Michigan courtroom

PART II

An amazing display of theological confusion among some German theologians

PART III

Are pro-life politicians in one party an endangered species?
Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018

Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018

PART I

After a case of horrific abuse, should homeschoolers in California be inspected by the state?

PART II

Parental rights and religious freedom at stake as New York officials move to control religious schools

PART III

Truth takes a backseat to storytelling on the big screen and the small screen
Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018

Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018

PART I

The federal government is back in business...at least for another three weeks

PART II

As new conscience protections become national policy, the political left complains about the very argument they once advanced

PART III

What one politician calls “a mistake”, the Bible calls “sin”

Monday, Jan. 22, 2018

Monday, Jan. 22, 2018

PART I

Politics at a fever pitch as limited government shutdown is underway,

PART II

As thousands of women march, record numbers file to run for political office

PART III

45 years after Roe v. Wade decision, the American conscience remains unsettled on the question of abortion
Friday, Jan. 19, 2018

Friday, Jan. 19, 2018

PART I

With loneliness on the rise, particularly among young people, Britain names a new government minister of loneliness

PART II

Why children’s books in China are different from the same kinds of books in the United States

PART III

Treason, spies, and betrayal are in the headlines once again
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