Wednesday, February 15, 2023

PART I A Massive Cry for Help: Teen Girls Wrestle With Record Levels of Sadness and Depression. Why?

PART II The Story Behind the Headlines: Our Society is Marked by Awful Maladies, But Just Will Not Face Them Honestly

PART III We Respect and Love in Accordance with Truth: A Christian Response to the Troubling Realities Our Young People Face

Tuesday, February 14, 2023

PART I Both Natural and Moral Evil: Death Toll from Turkey-Syria Earthquake Raises Above 36,000 — And Those Governments Bear Some Responsibility for That Staggering Tragedy

PART II What Is Going On Up There?: The U.S. Government Shoots Down More Airborne Objects

PART III ‘The Truth Should Always Be Attended by a Bodyguard of Lies?’ We Will Likely Only Know What the Government Wants Us To About Unidentified Airborne Objects

Monday, February 13, 2023

PART I What the Great Spectacle Shows: A Look at What Super Bowl LVII Reveals About Our Culture

PART II Incentivizing Vice: One of the Many Problems of Sports Gambling

PART III You Will Know It By Its Fruit: The Devastation Left in the Wake of the Gambling Industry

Friday, February 10, 2023

PART I Friendly Fire? How Big Business Is Subverting the Family

PART II Are the Pizzas Here Yet?: 6-Year-Old Uses Dad’s Phone to Order $1000 Worth of Food from Grubhub

PART III Our 6-Year-Old Daughter Wants to Be a Boy When She Plays Pretend. Is This a Cause for Concern? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV How Can Christians or Conservatives Argue Consistently for Freedom of Religion While Also Condemning Satanism? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V Should European Muslims Make a Common Alliance with European Christians to Defend Conservative, Family-Oriented, Sexual Mores? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI How Do We Fight CRT Depicted in Children’s Entertainment? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VII Since Jesus Was Born as a Man, Does This Mean God’s Gender is Male? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 9-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

Thursday, February 9, 2023

PART I Expand the Government. Extend Radical Abortion Rights.: President Biden’s State of the Union Address

PART II Politics is the Arena of the Performative — But How Do We Discern What Political Actions Are Genuine and Not Just for Show?

PART III Performativity is Never Enough: God’s Desire for Sincere Devotion From HIs People

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

PART I ‘A Domain Awareness Gap’: U.S. Military Acknowledges Chinese Spy Airships Have Previously Gone Undetected Over U.S. Airspace

PART II A Direct Assault on the Cause of Life: Minnesota Passes the “Protect Reproduction Options Act,” Which is Both Radical and Deadly

PART III Vaccine Skepticism Is Growing?: Some Background to the Controversy

PART IV So Who Decides? California Elites Fail Attempt to Outlaw “Misinformation”

PART V Monogamy Isn’t For Everyone?: USA Today–Once Again–Reveals How Our Culture’s Moral Universe Has Been Flipped Upside Down

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

PART I Horrifying Tragedy as Earthquake Kills Thousands in Turkey and Syria — What Disasters and Response Reveals About Civilization

PART II The Commercialization of Transgression: The 65th Annual Grammy Awards

PART III Yes, Christians Certainly Do Believe in Satan — But Where is the Outrage from Our Culture When Satan is Worshiped on Stage at the Grammys?

PART IV The Commercialization of Satanism: Who Funded the Glorification of Satan through Sponsorship at the Grammy Awards?

Monday, February 6, 2023

PART I A Conspicuous Attempt at Espionage: China's Balloon – Why Did the U.S. Government Handle This So Clumsily?

PART II Freedom Always Has Enemies: Why Democracy Will Always Face Massive Threats in a Fallen World

PART III Political Stunt or Strong Economic and Ideological Statement?: Congress Votes Down Socialism in all its Forms

Friday, February 3, 2023

PART I Spiritual Appropriation or the ‘Wisdom of Mother Earth’?: The Pagan Resurgence in the Midst of a Secular Culture

PART II ‘Is the Artificial Meat Kosher?’ — Theology is Always Close to the Headlines, Even Strangely

PART III What Do You Recommend For Someone Trying to Make His Way Back to the Faith? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV What are the Historical Reasons for the Sexual Revolution? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V How Do I Know If I Am Growing into Adulthood? How Do I Approach Witnessing to My Collegiate Classmates? What Dating Advice Would You Offer to Young Christians? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from College Students on The Briefing

Thursday, February 2, 2023

PART I Sinful But Not Criminal?: Pope Francis Confuses, and Then Attempts to Clarify, Recent Comments on Homosexuality

PART II ‘The Task of the New Pope Will to Ensure Doctrinal Clarity’: Catholic Cardinals Dispute Theological and Moral Issues Sparked by LGBTQ Revolution

PART III Convictional Leadership in a Secular Age: The High Stakes of Choosing Christian Leaders