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Wednesday, November 23, 2022

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

PART I (8:45 - 8:45) From Frozen TV Dinners to Turkey Ice Cream: How Turkey Turned into a Year-Round Staple of the American Diet
How the U.S. Became Turkey Nation by Wall Street Journal (Bee Wilson) Thanksgiving Food Is Showing Up in Unusual Dishes—Turkey Ice Cream, Anyone? by Wall Street Journal (Charles Passy)

PART II (14:1 - 14:1) ‘Thanksgiving Offers a Moment to Appreciate Whatever Good This Year Wrought, Even If by Accident or Chance.’: The Emptiness of a Secular Humanist Thanksgiving
Is There a Problem With Thanksgiving? by New York Times (Pamela Paul)

PART III (18:60 - 18:60) ‘A Heart Without Thankfulness Can Never Be a Godward Heart’: The Imperative of Proper Christian Thankfulness
They Did Not Honor Him or Give Thanks—Why Thanksgiving is Inescapably Theological by AlbertMohler.com (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.) Saying grace: How a moment of thanks, religious or not, adds meaning to our meals by Washington Post (Emily Heil)

PART IV (22:2 - 22:2) ‘Blessing and Glory and Wisdom and Thanksgiving and Honor and Power and Might be to Our God Forever and Ever!’: The Centrality of Christian Thankfulness

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

PART I (10:46 - 10:46) Conservatism Without Theism Will Not Long Last: Secular Worldviews Cannot Lastingly Support Truths that Require Conserving

PART II (18:52 - 18:52) Pluralism Is Not Enough, Same-Sex Marriage Cannot Be Affirmed: The Parable of David French
​​The parable of David French: This is how conservatism dies, and this is how marriage is surrendered by WORLD Opinions (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.) Pluralism Has Life Left in It Yet by The Atlantic (David French) Why I Changed My Mind About Law and Marriage, Again by The Dispatch (David French)

PART III (25:1 - 25:1) This Is How Conservatism Dies: If Marriage is Not Conserved, Nothing Genuinely Conservative Can Last

Monday, November 21, 2022

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

PART I (12:22 - 12:22) ‘You Cannot Defy Creation Without Tremendous Cost to the Creature’: Medical Authorities Question Use of Puberty Blockers for ‘Transgender’ Youth
They Paused Puberty, but Is There a Cost? by New York Times (Megan Twohey and Christina Jewett)

PART II (15:58 - 15:58) The Research on Damage of Hormone Therapy for Minors Is Not New, So Why is the Medical Establishment Just Now Acknowledging It?

PART III (19:19 - 19:19) ‘I Wish There Had Been More Questions’: The Problem of the Morality of Harm

PART IV (24:25 - 24:25) The New York Times Is Raising the Alarm on Puberty Blockers — How Long Until Others Follow?

Friday, November 18, 2022

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

PART I (9:23 - 9:23) 1 Out of 8 Americans Have Been Given Prescriptions for Antidepressants — Are We Really at the Point Where the Modern Age Just Equals Depression?
Antidepressants Don’t Work the Way Many People Think by New York Times (Dana G. Smith)

PART II (13:16 - 13:16) ‘Puppies on Prozac and Cats on CBD’ : Evidently Our Pets Are Now as Anxious as We Are
Puppies on Prozac: How to Handle Your Pet’s Anxiety by New York Times (Melinda Wenner Moyer)

PART III (16:8 - 16:8) Why Is It Okay to Euthanize Our Sickly Pet But Never Right to Euthanize People? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from Young Listener of The Briefing

PART IV (18:22 - 18:22) If the Fall Had Not Happened, How Could the Earth Have Provided for Population That Would Grow Exponentially And Never Die? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V (20:50 - 20:50) Why Did Georgia’s Senate Election Go to a Run-Off When the Republican Governor Won So Decisively? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI (24:3 - 24:3) Why Is It So Hard to Share the Gospel? Does Loving People Mean That We Respect Their Choices Even When Bad? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter from a 14-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing

PART VII (25:47 - 25:47) Why Did God Refer to Himself as ‘We’ in the Old Testament? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Christian parents: Something wicked this way comes

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Thursday, November 17, 2022

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

PART I (8:21 - 8:21) Twelve Republicans Voted in Favor in Respect for Marriage Act — But Redefining Marriage Is Profoundly Not Conservative

PART II (15:15 - 15:15) New Congressional Leadership Comes Into View: Why Does This Matter and Why Is the Road Ahead So Troubled?

PART III (18:60 - 18:60) Mass Cultural Confusion, Government Failure, and a Gospel Opportunity for the Church: Encouragement for Christians in a Society of Moral Revolt

PART IV (24:51 - 24:51) Issue of Abortion Goes Before Kentucky’s Supreme Court: But Abortion Rights Are Not, and Never Were, in the State’s Constitution.

The Centrality of Virtue and Intellectualism in Statesmanship: A Conversation with Daniel Mahoney

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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

PART I (10:43 - 10:43) These Elections Matters Massively But You Have No Vote: Who Will Become Speaker of the House, Senate Majority Leader, and President Pro Tempore?

PART II (20:12 - 20:12) The Mormon Church Comes Out in Official Support of the Respect for Marriage Act — Big Theological Issues Are in Play Here, and History, Too
Is the U.S. Senate really going to redefine marriage? by WORLD Opinions (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.)

PART III (24:30 - 24:30) The Epimenides Paradox Arises Anew as the Two Most Powerful Spies in the World Meet Together — And That’s No Lie
The C.I.A. Director Meets with His Russian Counterpart to Warn Against the Use of Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine. by New York Times (Jim Tankersley and Edward Wong)

Tuesday, November 15, 2022

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

PART I (13:20 - 13:20) No Genuine Conservative Can Support This: The U.S. Senate to Vote on So-Called ‘Respect for Marriage’ Act to Codify Same-Sex Marriage as Law of the Land
Senate Moves Ahead With Vote on Gay-Marriage Bill by Wall Street Journal (Katy Stech Ferek)

PART II (21:58 - 21:58) A Direct Assault on Religious Liberty: The So-Called ‘Respect for Marriage’ Act — We Need to Take Names on Who Is Behind Republican Moral Relativism

PART III (25:41 - 25:41) Be Fruitful and Multiply…Or Else: World Population Reaches 8 Billion People — Is It a Good Thing or a Cause for Concern?
World Population Reaching 8 Billion: What This Means for the Family of Humanity by USA Today (António Guterres)

Monday, November 14, 2022

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

PART I (2:1 - 2:1) Barely a Red Ripple? Democrats Claim Thin Majority in the Senate. We Await Further Word on House Races

PART II (16:8 - 16:8) Go Figure: New Research Shows Married Couples Have Greater Financial Wealth Than Cohabiting Couples — And Sociologists are Scratching Their Heads as to Why
Moving In Together Doesn’t Match the Financial Benefits of Marriage, but Why? by Wall Street Journal (Julia Carpenter) The Financial Implications of Cohabitation Among Young Adults by Journal of Financial Planning (Sonya Britt-Luter, Cassandra Dorius, Derek Lawson)

PART III (22:10 - 22:10) ‘Republicans Traded the Election of 2022 for a Generational Goal’: The Reversal of Roe. Was It Worth It?
What the Pro-Life Movement Lost and Won by New York Times (Ross Douthat)

PART IV (26:6 - 26:6) A News Story with a (Very) Weird Twist: Norwegian Princess Relinquishes Royal Duties to Marry American Celebrity Shaman