Wednesday, February 9, 2022

PART I From Peter the Great to Putin the Bully — A Briefing on the Ukraine Crisis and the Russian Threat: History, Empire, Kiev, Moscow, Religion and Worldview

PART II The Bloodlands of Europe: Ukraine Between the Nazis and the Soviets, and Death from Every Direction

PART III The West Will Merely Protest? Putin’s Strategy for Supremacy in Ukraine and the Lessons of History

PART IV The Ultimate End of Vladimir Putin: Russian Glory Restored and the End of Western Influence in the World

Tuesday, February 8, 2022

PART I A Big Win for the Integrity of Christian Ministry and Christian Families as West Lafayette City Council Withdraws Proposed “Conversion Therapy” Ban

PART II A Difference Can Still Be Made in the Public Square: How Faith Life Church Alerted Us About Ordinance 31-21 in Indiana — And What Christians Should Learn From the Example

PART III The Allure of Spectacle and the Solidarity of Autocrats: Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin Send Message to West in Opening Ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Olympics

Monday, February 7, 2022

PART I What Does It Mean to be an Evangelical? According to David Brooks, It Means to be a Part of a Fracturing Movement at War with Itself

PART II Evangelicals are Out of Step with the New York Times — No Surprise There

PART III The Transgender Revolution: If You Accept the Ideology You Accept the Policies

PART IV 'Lia Thomas Has Every Right to Live Authentically’: The Transgender Movement, Existentialism, and the Psychotherapeutic Turn

Friday, February 4, 2022

PART I The Liberal God of Post-Christian Culture: No Wrath, No Judgment, No Worries

PART II What is the Difference Between ‘Natural Rights’ and ‘Human Rights?’ — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART III What is the Difference Between Socialism, Marxism, Communism, and Totalitarianism? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV Should We Make A Big Deal About Changes in Language, Especially About Theological Terms? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, February 3, 2022

PART I China, Covid, the Winter Olympics, and the Surveillance State — Totalitarianism Tightens its Grip

PART II The Ratchet Effect and a Warning: When Government Claims New Powers, It Almost Never Gives Them Back

PART III The Bureaucracy Always Wins: How Covid Has Served as an Catalyst For Growth in Government Size and Spending

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

PART I The Pro-Life Movement Cannot Stop Until Every Human Life is Respected: Evaluating the Shifting Abortion Landscape And Its Effect on Upcoming Elections — And the Battles Ahead

PART II Character in Leadership: Boris Johnson Under Fire for Scandals — Boiling Down to His Inability to Say No

PART III The Moral Revolution Meets the Emoji: Apple Announces ‘Pregnant Man’ and ‘Pregnant Person’ Emojis in New Update

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

PART I Big Government Fumbles Again: Legal Cannabis, ‘Equity,’ and a Society Losing Its Mind

PART II Stormy Ethics Indeed: Brain Death, Xenotransplantation, and Arguments Over Who Should—Or Should Not—Receive Organ Transplants

PART III ‘Dump the Character Standard’: Former Baseball Commissioner Argues Character Should Not Matter for Hall of Fame

Monday, January 31, 2022

PART I The Left Pushes for the Resurrection of the Equal Rights Amendment — And At Its Heart is the Issue of Abortion

PART II ‘11 Million People They Were Going to Kill. They Had Very Big Plans’: The 80th Anniversary of the Wannsee Conference and One of the Darkest Meetings in Human History

PART III ‘Going to Services Shouldn’t Be an Act of Courage’: The Scourge of Anti-Semitism in America and Around the World

Friday, January 28, 2022

PART I Identity Politics and Intersectionality Come to the Supreme Court: President Biden Says He Will Keep 2020 Campaign Promise in Upcoming SCOTUS Nomination

PART II Get Ready for the Battle Over Another Supreme Court Nomination: The Stakes Only Grow Larger

PART III How Should Parents Talk to Children About Transgender Issues in Popular Culture? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV Economic Ethics: Should Politicians Be Able to Trade Stock While in Office? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, January 27, 2022

PART I ‘I Don't Want Somebody Appointed Who Will Just Reverse Everything I've Done’: Evaluating the Political and Historical Context of Justice Stephen Breyer’s Impending Retirement

PART II The Constitutionalism of Justice Breyer: Traditional Liberalism, Pragmatism, and Outcome-Based Jurisprudence

PART III The Last of His Kind? The Liberal Legacy of Justice Stephen Breyer

PART IV The Transgender Revolution’s War on Language Will Result in the Destruction of Pronouns