Monday, June 30, 2025

PART I Ending the Term with Thunder: The Supreme Court Clarifies the Relationship Between the Executive and Judicial Branches

PART II Big Wins for Parents at the Supreme Court: Nation’s Highest Court Defends Parental Authority in Two Crucial Cases

PART III A Landmark Case in the Defense of Human Life: SCOTUS Sides with South Carolina Against Planned Parenthood

PART IV Stigma is Just Dead? Celebrity Frenzy Reaches New Heights at Bezos Wedding and What the Lavish Venetian Wedding Reveals about (Re)Marriage in 2025

Friday, June 27, 2025

PART I We are Peering over a Demographic Cliff: This Year’s High School Graduating Class is the Biggest in American History, But It’s Downhill From Here

PART II Is God Good to Permit That My Wife Die from a Brain Tumor at a Young Age? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letter from Listeners of The Briefing

PART III Do You Agree with Charles Spurgeon on ‘Political Christians’? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 15-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART IV What Advice Would You Give to An Aspiring Academic? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from an 18-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART V Can a Christian Participate in a Peaceable Protest? Was It Wrong for Me to Attend a Political Protest? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letter from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI How Should Christians Approach Complicated Figures Like Martin Luther? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letter from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, June 26, 2025

PART I Will a Socialist Muslim Become Mayor of New York? Zohran Mamdani Wins the Democratic Party’s Primary Race in New York

PART II The 10-Year Anniversary of Obergefell: Obergefell was a Terrible Constitutional Ruling, and Its Ripple Effects Have Been Massive

PART III We are Now 3 Years Post-Dobbs: Returning Abortion to the States was a Necessary Step in the Fight for Life— But Defenders of Life Must Press Onward

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

PART I Will Iran Recover and Resume its Nuclear Weapons Program? The Effectiveness of the Attacks are Unknown, and the Likelihood of Lasting Change is Difficult to Calculate

PART II NATO Allies Are Hiding Under the Shield of the U.S. – Are European Nations Serious About Their Own Survival?

PART III Did Trump Break International Law? Legal Scholar Seriously Argues that President Trump Had to Gain Support of UN Before Authorizing Military Attacks

PART IV The Logic of Much “International Law” Falls Apart – Just Look at How That’s (Not) Working in Russia

PART V The Global Struggle is Not Inclusion and Resistance: The Global Conflict Before Our Eyes is a Battle Between Liberty and Autocracy

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

PART I A Ceasefire Between Israel and Iran? President Trump Announces (On Truth Social) That Iran and Israel Have Reached a Ceasefire Agreement

PART II The Culture of Death Scores Big Win in UK: Assisted Suicide Bill Passes in House of Commons

PART III The Culture of Death Scores Yet Another Big Win in U.K.: Decriminalization of Abortion Up Until Birth Passes by Wide Margin in House of Commons

Monday, June 23, 2025

PART I The Days of False Negotiation are Over: The United States Attacks Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Sites

PART II Does the President Have the Constitutional Right to Launch This Kind of Attack? Criticism of the Attack on Iran Raises Major Questions

PART III Was the U.S. Attack on Iran Justified? What About Just War Theory? Christians Have Even More to Consider About the Attack on Iran

PART IV The Military Intelligence Behind the Attack on Iran: You Too Could Have Read Enough to Know About It in The Wall Street Journal

PART V Is This Iraq All Over Again? Republicans Wrestle with Question of Whom Trust

Friday, June 20, 2025

PART I A Harmless Escape or Threat to Social Order? Brazil’s Sad ‘Reborn Doll’ Craze

PART II What is the Responsibility of the United States to the Modern State of Israel? Do Christians Have a Doctrinal Obligation to the State of Israel? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART III Can a Christian Become a Universalist and Still Be Considered a Christian? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV Is Claiming a So-Called ‘Furry’ Identity Contradictory to Scripture? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 15-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Thursday, June 19, 2025

PART I A Win for Sanity at the Supreme Court: SCOTUS Sides with Tennessee in Ban on So-Called Transgender Treatment for Minors

PART II ‘The Experts Have Been Wrong Before’: Justices Thomas Speaks the Truth About Subversion by the Elites

PART III A Shift Toward Preferring Girls? The Economist Finds the Question Interesting, But Not Morally Important

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

PART I A Crisis of Existential Crises: Outside of Christ, Everything is an Existential Crisis

PART II Is Burning the Koran a Crime in the UK? A Strange Alliance of Secularists and Christians are Questioning a Ruling in the UK

PART III President Macron is Posturing: The Big Problems with the Calls by France’s President for a Palestinian State

PART IV The Non-Existent European Constitution: The 20th Anniversary of the European Vote for a Written Constitution That Failed

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

PART I The Moral Shift Towards LGBTQ Acceptance – How Did Our Society Get Here?

PART II Surrogacy and the War Against Ontology: Heterosexuality is Biased Towards Procreation – That’s Just Biology

PART III USA Today as a Barometer for the Culture – Look at the Pages of This Liberal Newspaper for a Good Idea on Where Society is on LGBTQ Issues