The Briefing with Albert Mohler

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the death of Paul Ehrlich, the problems with population control ideology, if medical associations will backpedal from the transgender revolution, new legislation in California that would require insurance companies to cover female medical procedures that ar...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:14 – 11:43) Iran’s Strategy in the Strait of Hormuz: A Little Geographic Feature Can Be Crucial Part II (11:43 – 13:53) Will the West Be Lost in Iran? A Warning About Danger of Ending This War Too Early This is a turning point in history, the moment the West could be lost by The Telegraph (...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the marketing by prediction markets to young women, how sports betting is wrecking Gen Z lives, and he answers questions about continuing to try to have children after miscarriages, what it means to be an American and if ethnicity is tied to it, and if comm...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. On today’s edition of The Briefing, I discuss Portland’s vote for legal protection for polyamorous families, how the push for polyamory is bigger than polyamory, the strategy of legalizing polyamory in U.S. cities, and Iranian sleeper cells in California. Part I (00:14 – 13:40) Portland is Now Ground Zero f...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 – 10:03) Asymmetrical Warfare in Iran: The Cheap But Highly Effective Drones That are Shaping the War in Iran ‘Designed to Wreak Havoc’: The Cheap Drones Shaping the War With Iran by The New York Times (Paul Mozur and Adam Satariano) Part II (10:03 – 15:05) ISIS Operatives Attack Near Ma...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 – 05:49) International Law, What Is It? Many Lay Claim to International Law, But Who is Defining It? In defence of hand-wringers and pearl-clutchers by Financial Times (Robert Shrimsley) ‘Might makes right’? Why experts have fears for rule of law by USA Today (Aysha Bagchi) Part II...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:13 – 10:11) The First Cabinet Firing of Trump’s Second Administration: Kristi Noem is Out, and Sen. Markwayne Mullin is In as Nominee for DHS Secretary Part II (10:11 – 17:37) President Trump is Realigning the Global Order: The Consequences of President Trump’s Global Actions are Mass...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses Instagram and YouTube on trial for its harms in LA court, and he answers questions about gambling on Jesus’s return, freedom of religion and Islam, right and wrong uses of A.I., and preparing children for the stress of the world. Part I (00:13 – 09:00...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses that the son of Ayatollah Khamanei might be Iran’s next leader, the influence of emotions on policy support, the armchair allies of the U.S., the theological and political problems of James Talarico, Cornyn vs. Paxton in Texas, and New Zealand’s former Prim...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses who is in command of Iran’s military forces, if President Trump’s attacks in Iran were constitutional, if inaction in Iran would have been worse, and the death of Khamenei and prediction markets. Part I (00:14 – 07:44) Who is in Command and Control of...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the timing of the attacks in Iran, the moral dimension of the spycraft of Israel and America, and SCOTUS’s ruling in favor of parental rights in California over LGBTQ issues in schools. Part I (00:14 – 12:19) We Now Know Why: The U.S. and...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:14 – 13:49) This War Didn’t Start Saturday: A History of Iran’s Islamic Republic Part II (13:49 – 19:20) Iran Had to Be Stopped: Iran’s Development of Nuclear Weapons Was Unthinkable for the West — And Especially for Israel Part III (19:20 – 24:03) This Is a Limited Military Action —...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the generation that may never marry, children and Christian joy, and he answers questions about designing missiles as a Christian, if girls should participate in wrestling as a sport, and if children bear responsibility for what they believe. Part I (...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:14 – 06:55) What the Press Don’t Want to Talk About: The Press is Ignoring President Trump’s Moral Clarity on So-Called Gender Reassignment Procedures for Youth Trump Puts On a Show, Casting Democrats as the Villains by The New York Times (Katie Rogers) A marathon speech, a game show flair, and a...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:14 – 08:52) The State of the Union 2026: President Trump Gives Historically Long State of the Union Speech Part II (08:52 – 13:19) President Trump and the American Character: President Trump’s Personal Attacks Do Not Land Well with Americans – But Democrats Made Personal Attacks Too Part II...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Christian realism of the situation with Ukraine and Russia, the killing of El Mencho, and the argument from a Minnesota legislator who claims transgender identity says pornography is crucia...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:14 – 08:45) What Is The Question? In 6-3 Ruling, SCOTUS Rules Trump’s Targeted Tariffs are Unconstitutional Justices Strike Down Trump’s Tariffs by The New York Times (Ann E. Marimow) Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump by The Supreme Court of The United States Part II (08:45 – 10:16) Preside...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the liberationist argument that baby formula is the key to marriage equality, how Christians should think about birth control, and if it’s wrong for men to donate their ‘reproductive cells’ to a fertility bank. Part I (00:14 – 11:45) Baby Formula is t...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:14 – 12:26) A.I. Chatbots are Sociopaths? Christians Must Keep Categories Straight Why AI Chatbots Can’t Be Trusted for Financial Advice: They’re Sociopaths by The Wall Street Journal (Peter Coy) Part II (12:26 – 18:10) A.I. Chatbots Cannot Have a True Conscience: Our Human Conscience is Go...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:14 – 11:52) How Moral Revolutions Happen, Part One: Brazil Experiments With Polyamory Love Without Limits: Brazil Flirts With Polyamory by The Wall Street Journal (Ana Ionova) Part II (11:52 – 19:24) How Moral Revolutions Happen, Part Two: The Wall Street Journal is Promoting a Homosexual ‘...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:14 – 09:27) The Church of England Says No to Stand-Alone Same-Sex Ceremonies, for Now: Debate Reveals Massive Theological Rifts Church of England abandons proposals for same-sex blessing ceremonies by BBC News (Aleem Maqbool) Part II (09:27 – 10:57) LGBTQ Activists Say They Will Go for Brok...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. On today’s edition of The Briefing, I discuss the Munich Security Conference and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech there, if ‘western civilization’ is past tense, why a country’s moral principles will always be religious, and Russia’s return to poison warfare. Part I (00:14 – 11:43) “It’s Like Davos,...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the U.S. housing shortage, and he answers questions about sin in babies, where believers go when they die, how young is too young to get married, if sin destroys the image of God, and more. Part I (00:14 – 14:07) The U.S. Has a Major Housing Shortage:...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the unspeakable heartbreak in Canada as it is reeling from one of the deadliest mass shooting tragedies in its history, the pattern of transgender identity in mass shootings, and the rainbow Pride flag and what it reveals. Part I (00:14 – 03:34)...

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Part I (00:14 – 13:21) Gambling and the Corruption of Sports: We are Looking at a Moral Crisis in Sports Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling by Simon and Schuster (Danny Funt) Basketball’s Game-Fixing Scandal Now Includes 17 U.S. Colleges—and China’s Pro League by The Wall Stree...