The Briefing with Albert Mohler

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 12:08) ‘Amendment 4 Would Be the Death of the Pro-Life Movement in Florida’: Governor Ron DeSantis Makes Powerful Argument on Importance of State Abortion Referendum DeSantis: Florida abortion Amendment 4 means ‘end of the pro-life movement’ by Tampa Bay Times (Kirby Wilson) Amendment 4: "Amendmen...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 14:00) Mormons Take on the Transgender Issue: LDS Church Clarifies Participation of Transgender Persons in Church Services and Activities LGBTQ advocates say Mormon church’s new transgender policies marginalize trans members by The Associated Press (Deepa Bharath) Part II (14:00 - 17:40) Transgend...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 12:51) Hamas Attacks Israel and Now Kills More Hostages, While Israel Faces World Pressure: The Moral Reality in Gaza is Being Turned Upside Down Before Our Eyes Hamas Murders Six Hostages, Israel Is Blamed by The Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board) Part II (12:51 - 24:15) A Realist and Hone...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 06:00) Not Even Penguins are Safe From the LGBTQ Revolution: So-Called ‘Queer Icon’ Penguin Dies, But It’s Not Just the Penguins Who Were Confused Sphen, Penguin Whose Gay Love Story Earned Global Fame, Dies by The New York Times (Isabella Kwai) Part II (06:00 - 10:12) No, a Parrot Does Not Have t...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 14:05) Is This About Free Speech or Serious Crimes? Arrest of Eccentric Telegram Founder in France Raises Major Issues A Russian Elon Musk with 100 biological children: Meet Pavel Durov by CNN (Joshua Berlinger and Anna Chernova) How Telegram’s Founder Went From Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg to Wanted...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 17:36) “Government Pressure Was Wrong” — Letter by Mark Zuckerberg Reveals Biden Administration Effort to Suppress Speech on Social Media Platforms Letter to the House Judiciary Committee by Mark Zuckerberg by House Judiciary GOP Biden-Harris Administration: No Remorse for Free-Speech Abuses by Th...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 14:21) Autocracies are Aiming at the West: The World is a Dangerous Place for the U.S., and It Isn’t Getting Any Safer The West’s Next Challenge Is the Rising Axis of Autocracies by The Wall Street Journal (Yaroslav Trofimov) Part II (14:21 - 20:06) Totalitarian Population Control Loses a Battle A...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 15:57) The DNC and Harris Campaign Try Major Rebrand: Democrats Embrace Lack of Specificity on Major Policy Issues, Abortion on Demand, and Much More Kamala Harris Offers a ‘New Way Forward’ of Platitudes by The Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board) Democrats fully embrace abortion rights at c...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 10:03) A Titan of Daytime Television and Moral Provocateur Dies at 88: The Life and Legacy of Phil Donahue Part II (10:03 - 20:18) Is An Investigative Role as a Child Sex Crime Detective Incongruent with Christian Faith? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing Spycraft and...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 16:34) President Biden Continues Pushing for Ceasefire in Israel — But Neither Israel Nor the Palestinians Want a Two-State Solution The Way to Fix the Middle East Conflict Looks Obvious—Except to Israelis and Palestinians by The Wall Street Journal (Marcus Walker, Fatima AbdulKarim, and Anat Pele...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 13:55) President Biden’s Long Goodbye: A Look at Biden’s DNC Swan Song and its Place in History The Speech Biden Never Wanted to Give by The New York Times (Peter Baker) Part II (13:55 - 17:33) Let’s Not Forget the Biden Scandal: Democratic Party Leaders and Biden Administration Officials Orchestr...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 13:39) Show Time: It’s Time for Kamala Harris to Tell Voters the Truth About Her Radical Policy Positions Joe Manchin Has Some Unsolicited Advice for Kamala Harris and the Democrats by The New York Times Part II (13:39 - 18:25) SCOTUS Hits Pause Button: SCOTUS Prevents Biden Administration’s Enfor...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 08:20) Columbia University Becomes a Postmodern Parable: Minouche Shafik Resigns in Wake of the Mishandling of Protests on Campus and Other Issues Part II (08:20 - 20:18) Exit, Stage Left: President Biden, the DNC, and the Coup That Removed Him from the 2024 General Election Part III (20:18 - 24:3...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 10:38) Over the Top? Big Developments With a $600 Million Wedding in India and a Shrinking Number of Weddings in the United States A Billionaire Wedding in India Has Everyone Wondering: How Much Did It Cost? by The Wall Street Journal (Ashley Wong) A Billionaire Wedding Puts ‘Crazy Rich Indians’ i...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 11:20) In Some Sense, Abortion is on the Ballot in Every State in the 2024 Election, But Some States Will Vote Abortion Directly — Let’s Look at the Landscape Arizona and Missouri join states with abortion amendments on the ballot. What would the measures do? by The Associated Press (Geoff Mulvihi...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 13:41) Tim Walz Legalized Infanticide in Minnesota: Christians Must Reckon With Minnesota’s Revised Born Alive Statute VP Nominee Tim Walz Supports the Right to Infanticide by First Things (Charles C. Camosy) 2022 Minnesota Statutes - 145.423 Abortion; Live Births by Minnesota Legislature 2023 Min...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 09:58) We Live in Trying Times for the Christian Conscience — How Should Christians Think About the 2024 Presidential Election? To Save Conservatism From Itself, I Am Voting for Harris by The New York Times (David French) The Impotence of Secular Conservatism by AlbertMohler.com (R. Albert Mohler,...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 11:36) The Olympics and the Religion of Internationalism: There Is A Lot Going On That Most Will Not See Part II (11:36 - 14:23) A New Babylon with a Drag Queen Behind the Altar: The Theological Signals Sent at the Very Beginning of the 2024 Olympics Part III (14:23 - 23:36) ‘The Term “Biologicall...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 08:27) Teenagers are Discovering a Good of Work: Friendship – Teens Find Reprieve from Loneliness Epidemic in Summer Jobs After the Lockdown Years, Teens Want One Thing From Their Jobs: Friends by The Wall Street Journal (Terell Wright) Part II (08:27 - 12:33) Do Expensive Toilet Paper and Cheetos...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 11:34) Important PSA, Joe Biden is Still President: President Biden is Still Attempting Major (And Even Unconstitutional) Changes in the Last Months of His Presidency Biden: Forgotten but Not Gone by The Wall Street Journal (Kimberley A. Strassel) Part II (11:34 - 17:37) Petty Politics Guised as a...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 07:33) Kamala Harris Chooses Governor Tim Walz as Running Mate – Let’s Look at the Walz Narratives the Harris Campaign is Falsely Pushing Part II (07:33 - 13:25) Kamala Harris and Tim Walz Make for Deadly Abortion Ticket: We are Looking at the Most Pro-Abortion Presidential Ticket in U.S. History...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 08:11) Tropical Storm Debby Is a ‘Once Every Thousand Years’ Storm? "Acts of God" and the Remnants of Theological Language in a Secular Age Part II (08:11 - 14:00) Why Would Israel Assassinate the Leaders of Its Enemies? Deterrence and Israel’s Great Challenge Why Israel Escalates: Risky Assassina...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 17:28) Who is the Future of the Democratic Party? Identity Politics, a Harder Push Left, and Who Kamala Harris Could Choose as Her Running Mate This Week Part II (17:28 - 24:25) The Prisoner Swap was Not an Equivalent Moral Transaction: The Massive Issues Behind the Hostage Game Being Played by th...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 - 09:53) Sex Education, A Major Conflict of Our Cultural Debate: Abstinence Based Approaches and Their Enemies 30 years later, the evangelical purity movement still impacts sex education by NPR (Magnolia McKay) Part II (09:53 - 13:45) How Just One Woman Became a Major Engine of the Sexual Revolution...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:15 - 06:34) Democrats Utterly Reshape the Political Landscape: A Look at the Looming Reset of the 2024 Election Special Edition: President Biden Drops a Political Bomb: President Biden Makes History as He Withdraws from Presidential Race Just 100 Days Before the 2024 General Election by AlbertMohler.co...