Wednesday, March 16, 2022

PART I Idaho Follows Texas Model Law: Bans Abortions After Fetal Heartbeat

PART II Defenders of Abortion Hate the Word “Heartbeat” — Because The Word Affirms the Reality of A Human Baby in the Womb

PART III When Geography Tells a Worldview Story: Realtors in Idaho Entice Conservatives in California to Move to Idaho

PART IV The Theft of Value: The U.S. Faces an Inflation Crisis — And With It, A Moral Crisis

Tuesday, March 15, 2022

PART I The Moral Clarity of War: Media Rightly Reports Heart Wrenching Story of the Death of Pregnant Mother and Baby as a Result of Russia’s Bombing of Maternity Ward in Mariupol — Using the Word ‘Baby’

PART II War Exposes the Surrogacy Industry in Ukraine: A Christian Consideration of the Issue

PART III Socially Responsible Military Investments? Coming to a Socially Conscious Fund In Your Portfolio? The Left Grapples (Again) with the Moral Quandary of Defense Industries

Monday, March 14, 2022

PART I The Moral Revelations of War: Truth, Facts, and Reality Become Increasingly Evident — And Hard to Deny

PART II It’s Like the Soviet Union Ended and the Mafia Took Control: The Moral Dimensions of the Russian 'Oligarchs’

PART III Is There Anything For Which We Would Die? Christian Realism and the Defense of Things Worth Dying For

PART IV A Life Devoted to the Cause for Life: Pediatrician Donald Pinkel, Who Revolutionized the Treatment of Childhood Leukemia

Friday, March 11, 2022

PART I Objective Reality is Real and Knowable: Even In an Age of Fake News, The Truth Will Always Come to the Light

PART II An Important Battle Won in Midst of Budget Atrocity: Hyde Amendment Reinserted into Spending Bill, Protects Taxpayer Money from Funding Abortions — For Now

PART III ‘Our Policy is Based on the Citizen, Not Woke Corporations’: Florida’s Governor Speaks Back to Disney CEO

PART IV Can I Fight in a Just War If A Member of My Family Serves in the Opposing Military? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V Why Do You Often Say ‘Let There Be Life’ When Referring to A Baby Formed in the Womb? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI Should We Use Genetic Modification As A Means of Procreation? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VII Is the Command ‘Be Fruitful and Multiply’ for all People? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, March 10, 2022

PART I Vladimir Putin, A Friend to Christian Morality and Conservative Culture?: A Christian Response This Question

PART II The Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Ruler in “Symphonia” — What Does This Mean?

PART III So Having a McDonalds Didn’t Guarantee Peace? Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention Proved Wrong as Russia Invades Ukraine

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

PART I Impact of War in Ukraine Starts to Hit Close to Home as U.S. Shuts Off All Energy Imports from Russia: What Does All This Mean?

PART II ‘We Must Not Trade One Dictator for Another’: Is Buying Petroleum From Venezuela Morally Better Than Buying From Russia?

PART III The Power of Entertainment Culture: Disney CEO Avoids Public Statement on Florida ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill Citing Storytelling as a Better Change Agent in Society

PART IV “Ethical Non-Monogamy”: Redefinition of Marriage and Revolution of Polyamory Trickles Down into Moral Advice Column

Tuesday, March 8, 2022

PART I The ‘Breadbasket of Europe’ is Endangered: War in Ukraine Threatens Global Food Supply, Possibly for Years to Come

PART II Stand with Dictators and You Will Fall with Them: There Is No Separation of Culture and Morality — The Case of a Russian Orchestra Conductor With Time on His Hands

PART III The Cannabis Culture Has No Brakes: California State Fair Officials Establish Competition Category for Most Potent Marijuana. Are They High?

PART IV The Spreading Logic of Gambling: Sports Betting Arrives as the Latest Temptation

Monday, March 7, 2022

PART I Tracking Developments in Ukraine: U.S. Declines Zelenskyy’s Request for a No-Fly Zone and Putin Criminalizes Any Citizen Who Refers to Russia’s War in Ukraine as ‘War’

PART II ‘Taking Dictators Literally and Seriously’: Putin Stated Clearly His Determinations over Ukraine — Will the World Learn to Take Dictators at Their Word?

PART III Two Contradictory Moralities Evident in One Nation: Two States (California & Florida) Present Polar Opposite Laws on Abortion Access in Preparation for Possible Overturning of Roe v. Wade

PART IV SCOTUS Votes to Reinstate Federal Death Penalty in Boston Marathon Terror Case , but President Biden has Threatened to Block Any Executions — What is at Stake?

Friday, March 4, 2022

PART I Reordering the Justice System in the Name of Social Justice by Redefining the Role of the District Attorney — And Attempts to Recall Leftist Prosecutors

PART II Does Peter’s Command to Honor Authority Include Evil Leaders? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART III Is Sexual Orientation or Sexual Behavior Outside of God’s Design Sin? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV When God Commanded Israel to Invade the Canaanites, Was That a Precedent for Other Nations? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, March 3, 2022

PART I Christian Just War Theory: Some Principles for Thinking Christianly in Light of Attacks on Civilian Areas in Ukraine

PART II War in Ukraine Brings a Return to Objective Truth in Post-Christian Europe: The Sobering Reality of War and Moral Urgency to Confront Truth

PART III The Oligarch Paradox: So What is Oligarchy, and What’s behind the Western Strategy to Force Russia's Oligarchs to Suffer?

PART IV Various Aspects of Culture Coalesce around a Moral Judgment as FIFA and the Metropolitan Opera Cancel Russia: The Inescapability and Comprehensiveness of the Biblical Worldview