Past Episodes

Friday, September 9, 2022

PART I Special Edition of The Briefing in Honor of Queen Elizabeth II and the End of Britain’s Second Elizabethan Age to an End

PART II What Sustains the Legitimacy of the State? A Hereditary Monarchy Is One of the Most Influential Ideas in World History

PART III Moral Revolution and Cultural Convulsion But One Great Symbol of Stability: Queen Elizabeth’s Legacy

Thursday, September 8, 2022

PART I Big Question Now More Urgent: How Long Will Christians Let Their Children Stay in Public Schools?

PART II How Long Before Your School Defies Creation With New Pronoun Rules? Big Developments as the Sexual Revolution Comes to a School Near You

PART III The Public School Idea in America: How Did it Happen? Who Was Driving It?

Wednesday, September 7, 2022

PART I Pro-Abortion California May Enshrine Abortion in Its Constitution in November: It’s a Sign of Abortion Extremism in Nation’s Most Populous State

PART II ‘You Give A Lot of Your Prime Reproductive Years to Being the Best Athlete in the Building’: Women’s Sports Collide with Reproductive Reality

PART III ‘If You Played at a Top 10 University, You Didn't Have Babies’: USA Today Contends Abortion is Key to Women’s Success in Collegiate Sports — But What’s Really Going On Here?

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

PART I What Happens Across the Atlantic Matters: Britain Gets New Prime Minister in the Midst of Much Tumult — The U.S. Better Watch Closely

PART II Not Even a Close Count: Chile Overwhelmingly Votes Down Proposed New (And Leftist) Constitution

PART III President Biden Plays with Political Dynamite: Remarks that Includes Republicans Who are Pro-Life and Who Know What Marriage as a Threat to Democracy

Friday, September 2, 2022

PART I Don’t Ask Caesar to Set Your Salary: California Seeks Even More Government Overreach—This Time on Restaurant Wages

PART II France Seeks Tax on Private Jet Use — Does Anyone Believe that Hollywood is Going to Ride in Coach?

PART III Why Was Satan Allowed to Torment Job? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a Young Listener of The Briefing

PART IV Why Didn’t the Identity of Orthodox Christianity Prevent Serbia’s Atrocities in the Bosnian War? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V Why Do Local Elections Matter? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI Does the Year of Jubilee in the Old Testament Justify President Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VII A Clarification and Apology on the Use of ‘Hobby Child’ — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, September 1, 2022

PART I The Legacy of the Last in Line of USSR Leaders: The Significance of Mikhail Gorbachev

PART II The Collapse of the USSR and the Loss of Russian Glory: The Mixed Legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev

PART III Tragic Moral Parable and Symbol of the Media Age: The Life and Legacy of Princess Diana 25 Years After Her Death

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

PART I One of the 20th Century’s Most Influential Lives in World Politics Comes to An End: Mikhail Gorbachev Dies at 91 — And We Await Russia’s Response

PART II EuroPride Festival Brought to Screeching Halt in Serbia — Where You Find Historic, Orthodox Christianity, You Find a Society That Knows God’s Intention for Gender, Sexuality, and Family

PART III What Happens When Identity Politics Turns on the Sexual Revolution? Harry Styles Gets Accused of ‘Queerbaiting’

PART IV ‘We’re a Part of the Abortion Movement Too’: Trans Men Meet Ontological Obstacles as They Demand Recognition from Abortion Movement

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

PART I Ground Zero for the Battle over Education in Public Schools: Florida and Public School Libraries — And There We Watch the Shaping of the Future of Education in the U.S.

PART II From Early American Classrooms to the Common School to Massive Public School Systems: Big Questions Now Loom

PART III The Big Question in the Public School System Debate: ‘How Much Say Should Parents Have in the Education of Their Children?’ — And So Much Rests on Who Presents the Winning Argument

Monday, August 29, 2022

PART I Orwell Put on Hold? Department of Homeland Security Disbands "Governance Disinformation Board"

PART II Google Takes Sides on Abortion: Company Says It Will Label Abortion Providers in Search Functions — And That Means Leading Users Away from Crisis Pregnancy Centers

PART III A Parable of the Liberal Ethos and Postmodern Party Culture: Finland’s Prime Minister in Controversy after Videos Emerge of Her Participation in Partying Scandal

Friday, August 26, 2022

PART I A Looming Disaster: South Korea Tops Its Own Record for Lowest Fertility Rate — And Is Still Trending Downward

PART II What are the Succinct Elements of a Biblical Worldview? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART III What Conservative and Liberal News Sources Should I Use to Help My Daughter Learn How to Evaluate the News? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV I’m a Christian Who Qualifies for President Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness. Should I Accept It? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

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