This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 08:00) ‘We Pray to Achieve a Future That Reflects the Truth, Beauty, and Goodness of Christ’s Eternal Kingdom in Heaven’: The President’s Unprecedented Statement on Holy Week Presidential Message on Holy Week, 2025 by The White House (President Donald J. Trump) Part II (08:00 - 14:52) Scrapping Easter for ‘Inclusivity’? The Secularized UK is Reverting to Paganism Before Our Eyes Primary school s...
Apr 15, 2025•27 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 12:08) You Can’t Just Blame the Pandemic: America’s School Crisis Started Long Ago, and It’s Predictably Getting Worse Part II (12:08 - 16:28) Failing Schools: New Study Shows the Pandemic Rocked States Under Democrat Influence Harder Than Republican States The pandemic hit pupils hardest in America’s Democrat-leaning states by The Economist Part III (16:28 - 18:43) To Help Students or Please Te...
Apr 14, 2025•26 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 16:55) Special Edition: The Problem of Sextortion: A Message for Parents and Pastors of Teenage Young Men Sign up to receive The Briefing in your inbox every weekday morning. Follow Dr. Mohler: X | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube For more information on The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, go to sbts.edu . For more information on Boyce College, just go to BoyceCollege.com . To write Dr. Moh...
Apr 12, 2025•17 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 10:50) A Remarkable Life, Truth Even Stranger Than Fiction: KGB Officer Turned Double Agent, Oleg Gordievsky, Dies at 86 Oleg Gordievsky, K.G.B. Officer Turned Double Agent, Dies at 86 by The New York Times (Clay Risen) Oleg Gordievsky worked for both sides in the cold war by The Economist Part II (10:50 - 18:52) Why Do We Have Nightmares? How Do We Battle What We See in Our Dreams? — Dr. Mohler...
Apr 11, 2025•27 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:14 - 11:08) President Trump Puts Major Tariffs on Hold for 90 Days – Except for China Part II (11:08 - 16:36) Florida School District Upholds Parental Authority: Only Parents Can Decide to Change a Child’s Name at School Florida high school teacher loses job after using student's preferred name by USA Today (Finch Walker) Part III (16:42 - 20:29) ‘The Majority of Citizens Agree with Me, Not You’: Int...
Apr 10, 2025•28 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 15:15) Crying Wolf? A Look at the Complicated Worldview Behind Supposedly Bringing Back Long-Extinct Species The Return of the Dire Wolf by Time (Jeffrey Kluger) Part II (15:15 - 19:42) De-Extinction and Creation Order: Should Humans Seek to Bring Animals Back From Extinction? Part III (19:42 - 25:08) There’s Reality, and There’s This: Rep. Huffman’s Protest of the National Prayer Breakfast as U...
Apr 09, 2025•27 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 12:04) The Morality Tale of Corporate DEI: Businesses in the U.S. are Backing Off DEI – What Changed? Morgan Stanley Went Big on DEI, and No One Is Happy About It by The Wall Street Journal (AnnaMaria Andriotis and Lauren Weber) ‘Anti-Woke’ in the U.S., DEI at Home: the New Playbook for European Companies by The Wall Street Journal (Ben Dummett and Joe Wallace) Part II (12:04 - 16:59) DEI is Jus...
Apr 08, 2025•29 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 13:09) How Much Financial Pain? How Much Gain? Trump’s Tariffs Raise Big Economic Questions Part II (13:09 - 21:29) A Collision Between Secularism and the LGBTQ Revolution: A Leader of New Atheism Goes After the Freedom From Religion Foundation for Abandoning Biology Losing My Nonreligion by The Wall Street Journal (Jerry A. Coyne) What is a woman? by FreeThought Now! (Kat Grant) Biology Is Not ...
Apr 07, 2025•27 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 11:15) Take the Text as It Is: And No, Meryl Streep Should Not Be the Voice of Aslan in the New Narnia Movie Meryl Streep as Aslan? CS Lewis would approve – with one big caveat by The Telegraph (Claire Allfree) Part II (11:15 - 16:07) You Spoke About the Problem of Women’s Disinterest in Marriage, But What About the Shortage of Godly Young Men? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of ...
Apr 04, 2025•26 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 09:14) A Big Loss in Wisconsin: The Politicization of the Judiciary and Major Liberal Win Tuesday in Wisconsin Part II (09:14 - 10:12) Where are the Conservatives on Election Day? Republicans Turn Out for Trump, But Have a Huge Problem When It Comes to Special Elections Part III (10:12 - 22:34) A Third Term for President Trump? He May Be Joking, But Real Obstacles Remain and Dangers Lurk Twenty-...
Apr 03, 2025•29 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 13:54) AG Pam Bondi Moves for Death Penalty in Trial of Luigi Mangione: Look at the Statement by Mangione’s Attorney Attorney General Directs Prosecutors to Seek Death Penalty Against Luigi Mangione by The Wall Street Journal (Corinne Ramey and C. Ryan Barber) Part II (13:54 - 22:24) The Speaker Tries to Nix Proposal for Proxy Voting in the House: Having a Baby is Arguably a Reasonable Considera...
Apr 02, 2025•29 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 08:50) Yesterday was ‘Trans Day of Visibility’ – But There’s A Lot More Behind That Project Than Meets the Eye Trans Day of Visibility is Monday - a day to raise awareness of transgender people by USA Today (Saleen Martin and Fernando Cervantes Jr.) Part II (08:50 - 20:07) ‘This is For Anyone Who is Scrutinized and Oppressed’: The Trans Worldview is on Full Display in the Controversy over Men Co...
Apr 01, 2025•26 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:14 - 08:44) A Devastating Tragedy in Myanmar: A Massive Earthquake and Its Aftershocks Leaves Devastation, Kills Nearly 1,700 with Many More Missing A Question in Quake-Wracked Myanmar: Does This Augur the End of the Junta? by The New York Times (Hannah Beech) Part II (08:44 - 19:06) Tuesday’s Special Elections: Very Much is at Stake in the Elections in Florida and Wisconsin Tomorrow Part III (19:06 ...
Mar 31, 2025•26 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 09:42) The Truth About the Department of Education: Teachers Unions, Bureaucracy, and Massive Ideological Issues at the Department of Education Part II (09:42 - 12:29) U.S. Scientists Need a ‘Safe Place’? The UK is Opening Its Doors to U.S. Scientists in the Wake of the Trump Administration’s Program Cuts As Trump’s Policies Worry Scientists, France and Others Put Out a Welcome Mat by The New Yo...
Mar 28, 2025•26 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 15:25) The Religious Switching in a Secular Age: The Velocity of Secularization Shows in the Numbers Around the World, Many People Are Leaving Their Childhood Religions by Pew Research Center (Kirsten Lesage, Kelsey Jo Starr, and William Miner) Part II (15:25 - 19:20) Seismic Shifts on the Spiritual Landscape Are Global: And American Exceptionalism May Disappear Fast Part III (19:20 - 26:22) Cal...
Mar 27, 2025•26 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 16:47) The Marriage Challenge Has Become a Marriage Crisis: American Women are Increasingly Not Getting Married – And Are Increasingly Rejecting the Idea of Marriage American Women Are Giving Up on Marriage by The Wall Street Journal (Rachel Wolfe) Part II (16:47 - 20:18) The Growing Political Divide Between Young Men and Women: Women are Growing More Liberal Than Young Men – And It’s Having Mas...
Mar 26, 2025•26 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 10:54) A Signal National Security Controversy: An American Journalist Gets Accidentally Added to a Confidential Group Chat About Yemen Strike Plans Part II (10:54 - 17:25) Trump Announces a New Fighter Jet: President Trump Announces F-47 Stealth Fighter – But Much About it Is Secret Trump Offers a Glimpse of New Stealth Fighter, the F-47 by The New York Times (John Ismay) Part III (17:25 - 22:53...
Mar 25, 2025•26 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 07:59) Disney’s Latest ‘Dumpster Fire’: Disney Live-Action Remake of Snow White is Ticking Off Just About Everyone ‘Snow White’ Review: A Disney Princess’s Pointless Return by The Wall Street Journal (Kyle Smith) ‘Snow White’ Review: A Princess’s Progress by The New York Times (Manohla Dargis) Snow White and the Seven Kajillion Controversies by The New York Times (Brooks Barnes) All the controve...
Mar 24, 2025•24 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 07:56) The Test Case of a Midwife in Texas: When Abortion is Illegal, Someone Will Be Charged with a Crime – And the Pro-Life Movement Shouldn’t Shy Away From It Texas Republicans seek to clarify when doctors can intervene under abortion bans by Texas Tribune (Eleanor Klibanoff) Texas midwife arrested and charged with performing illegal abortions by NBC News (Aria Bendix and Tim Stelloh) Texas A...
Mar 21, 2025•28 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 13:43) The Culture War Against Homeschooling: Why the Educational ‘Blob’ Wants More Oversight on Homeschooling The Never-Ending War on Home Schooling by The Wall Street Journal (Matthew Hennessy) Part II (13:43 - 22:03) Teaching Fertility in Sex Education? The Experts Say You Should ‘Trust the Experts’ on This – But Don’t Buy It Should teens be learning about fertility in sex-ed? Some experts sa...
Mar 20, 2025•25 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 10:00) How Do Humans Make Decisions, By Rational Thinking or Intuition? The Answer Isn’t As Rational As You Might Think Thinking, Fast and Slow by Macmillan Publishers (Daniel Kahneman) Part II (10:00 - 17:27) A Decision for Death? How Does Daniel Kahneman’s Assisted Suicide Fit into the Worldview of the Leading Expert on Decision Making? The Last Decision by the World’s Leading Thinker on Decis...
Mar 19, 2025•26 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 10:31) Does the U.S. Have the Determination to Defend Itself? The ‘Test Case’ of Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia University Part II (10:31 - 15:49) Which Faculty at Columbia University Support Its Campus Protests? The Unveiling of the Worldview Divide Between Columbia’s Faculty Departments Faculty-on-Faculty War Erupts at Columbia as Trump Targets Elite School by The Wall Street Journal (Douglas Belk...
Mar 18, 2025•27 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 11:07) The Democratic Party Identity Crisis Turns Into a Political Crisis: As Senator Schumer Backed Away from Shutdown, Young Democrats are Reeling Young Democrats’ Anger Boils Over as Schumer Retreats on Shutdown by The New York Times (Shane Goldmacher) Part II (11:07 - 21:08) Failed States and Terrorist Threats: The Need for a Sustained Military Effort Against the Houthi Rebels in Yemen Houth...
Mar 17, 2025•26 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 07:51) Trump’s Two-Gender Policy Makes It to the Department of Health and Human Services – And That Starts at the Top with Secretary Kennedy Citing ‘Biological Truth,’ Kennedy Issues Guidance Recognizing Only Two Sexes by The New York Times (Sheryl Gay Stolberg) Part II (07:51 - 11:11) Jackie, Shadow, and Their 3 Chicks: The Glory of God in Creation Evident in the Lives of a Bald Eagle Family Bi...
Mar 14, 2025•27 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 16:27) Trump Says Tariffs are a ‘Big, Beautiful Word’ – But What’s Behind His Push for Tariffs? Do They Help the U.S.? Part II (16:27 - 20:31) Who Will Win the Tariff War? President Trump is Banking on the U.S. to Be Able to Wait Out Other Governments in a Tariff War Part III (20:31 - 24:56) Diocletian and Price Control in Croatia: The Retirement of a Roman Emperor and the Price Control Policy T...
Mar 13, 2025•25 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 16:33) We are About to Find Out What Vladimir Putin Really Wants: If Putin Wants Peace, He Will Accept the Ceasefire Accepted by Ukraine as Presented by the U.S. Part II (16:33 - 20:21) Russia Will Continue to be a Threatening Force on the World Scene – For Reasons Deeply Rooted in History, Geography, and Civilizational Patterns Part III (20:21 - 26:06) Oregon Gov. Kotek Declares March 10 Aborti...
Mar 12, 2025•26 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:05 - 10:06) SCOTUS Takes Up Conversion Therapy Case from Colorado: There is More to the Case Than Many Admit — Including a Word Game to Target Christian Conviction Supreme Court to review Colorado law barring conversion therapy for minors by CNN (John Fritze) Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Law Banning Conversion Therapy by The New York Times (Adam Liptak) Part II (10:06 - 18:57) Christians Must P...
Mar 11, 2025•27 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 16:33) Canada’s New Prime Minister: Mark Carney Will Take Over in Place of Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada Part II (16:33 - 17:50) President Trump is Raising Legitimate Concerns About Canada – But as Legitimate as Those Concerns Are, Americans Should Be Thankful for Our Neighbors to the North Part III (17:50 - 25:59) Crime, Punishment, and a Firing Squad: The Demand of Justice Falls o...
Mar 10, 2025•26 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 15:00) Gov. Gavin Newsom Drops a Bombshell: Liberal Governor of California Suddenly Says Male Participation in Female Sports is Unfair And, This Is Charlie Kirk by This is Gavin Newsom (Gavin Newsom and Charlie Kirk) Part II (15:00 - 18:50) How Do I Put the Sin of Emotional Infidelity to Death? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing Part III (18:43 - 20:43) Would You Ela...
Mar 07, 2025•28 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:14 - 09:27) Why are U.S. Tax Dollars Supporting Homosexual Practices in Uganda? The Pull of U.S.A.I.D. Reveals Major LGBTQ Support by U.S. Federal Funds Where Being Gay Is Punishable by Death, Aid Cuts Are ‘Heartbreaking’ by The New York Times (Abdi Latif Dahir) Part II (09:27 - 17:48) The Moral Discourse of Hollywood Becomes Even Clearer: Hollywood Claims the Big Loser of the Oscars was Climate Chan...
Mar 06, 2025•26 min
