This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
Part I (00:13 – 04:56)
Idaho Follows Texas Model Law: Bans Abortions After Fetal HeartbeatIdaho Is First State to Pass Abortion Ban Based on Texas’ Law by New York Times (Kate Zernike)Part II (04:56 – 10:34)
Defenders of Abortion Hate the Word “Heartbeat” — Because The Word Affirms the Reality of A Human Baby in the WombAbortion Opponents Hear a ‘Heartbeat.’ Most Experts Hear Something Else. by New York Times (Roni Caryn Rubin)Part III (10:34 – 15:18)
When Geography Tells a Worldview Story: Realtors in Idaho Entice Conservatives in California to Move to IdahoRealtors to Conservatives Living in Liberal Areas: Try Idaho by LA Times (Nicholas K. Geranios)Part IV (15:18 – 23:46)
The Theft of Value: The U.S. Faces an Inflation Crisis — And With It, A Moral CrisisIt’s Joe Biden’s Inflation by Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board)
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Wednesday, October 26, 2022
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.Part I (00:13 – 12:27) Enthusiast in Chief for the Transgender Revolution: President Joe Biden Calls Any State Restrictions of ‘Gender-Affirming’ Legally and Morally Wrong‘Devout Catholic’ Biden Invokes God And Morality To Push Genital Mutilation Of Gender-Confused Kids by The Federalist (Evita Duffy)Joe Biden: Banning Sex Change Surgery for Children is ‘Immoral’ by The Telegraph (Josie Ensor)Most Children Who Think They’re Transgender are Just Going Through a ‘Phase’, Says NHS by The Telegraph (Hayley Dixon)Part II (12:27 – 16:53) Male, Female, or X?: The LGBTQ Revolution Coming to Social Security Administration Gender Boxes Near YouSocial Security Will Now Allow People to Select Their Gender in Records by New York Times (Eduardo Medina)Part III (16:53 – 24:36) ‘The Term ‘Queer’ is Exclusive’: A Debate within the LGBTQ Community Reveals How Moral Revolutions Require Ongoing Revolutions in Language Let’s Say Gay by New York Times (Pamela Paul)Sign up to receive The Briefing in your inbox every weekday morning.Follow Dr. Mohler:Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | YouTubeFor 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. Mohler or submit a question for The Mailbox, go here.
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Tuesday, May 16, 2023
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.Part I (00:13 – 06:34) Truth is Stranger Than Fiction: George Santos and Our Postmodern Identity CrisisPart II (06:34 – 12:08) An Athletic Phenom, Chivalry, and the Gender Binary: The Track Event That Wrought Mia Brahe-Pedersen’s Blazing 100-meter DashThe High School Sprint Phenom Who Beat Her Prom Date by Wall Street Journal (Rachel Bachman)Part III (12:08 – 20:47) A Diet of Darkness: The Corrosive Nature of Social Media and the Dark Rabbit Holes in Which Our Adolescents Are FallingTikTok Feeds Teens a Diet of Darkness by Wall Street Journal (Julie Jargon)Part IV (20:47 – 24:10) A Bridge Between News and Pop Culture No More: Paramount Announces MTV News Will Be Brought to an EndHow MTV Broke News for a Generation by New York Times Remy TuminSign up to receive The Briefing in your inbox every weekday morning.Follow Dr. Mohler:Twitter | Instagram | Facebook | YouTubeFor 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. Mohler or submit a question for The Mailbox, go here.
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Monday, March 7, 2022
DOCUMENTATION AND ADDITIONAL READING
PART 1
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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’NEW YORK TIMES (ANTON TROIANOVSKI)
Russia Takes Censorship to New Extremes, Stifling War CoveragePART 2
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‘Taking Dictators Literally and Seriously’: Putin Stated Clearly His Determinations over Ukraine — Will the World Learn to Take Dictators at Their Word?WALL STREET JOURNAL (THE EDITORIAL BOARD)
Taking Dictators Literally and SeriouslyPART 3
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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. WadeLA TIMES (MELODY GUTIERREZ)
More California Nurse Practitioners could Work Independently, Offer Abortions under New BillPART 4
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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?
