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Tuesday, June 7, 2022

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

PART I (16:29 - 16:29) ‘It’s Just Not A Lifestyle We Want to Encourage If We Believe in Jesus’: Tampa Bay Rays Players Opt Out of Wearing Uniform to Support Pride Month
Welcome to Pride Month, Christian by WORLD Opinions (Carl Trueman) A Proclamation on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, And Intersex Pride Month, 2022 by White House Most, But Not All, Rays Show Their LGBTQ+ Support by Tampa Bay Times (Marc Topkin) An Attempt at Inclusion Proves There Is More Work to Do by New York Times (Tyler Kepner) Carolina Panthers Hire NFL’s First Openly Transgender Cheerleader by New York Post (Joshua Rhett Miller)

PART II (21:37 - 21:37) ‘The Worst Are Those With Religious Connections’: Campus Pride Blacklists Christian Universities for Christian Conviction
'Completely Different from High School': How Colleges are Making Space for LGBTQ Students by USA Today (Chris Quintana)

PART III (26:10 - 26:10) Cobalt Blue Is ‘In’ But Is It Real?: Evaluating the Reality and Significance of Color
Cobalt Blue Is Color Rushing Our Summer by New York Times (Lia Picard)

Monday, June 6, 2022

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

PART I (14:56 - 14:56) Multiple Polls Report Majority of Americans Support Abortion as ‘Morally Acceptable’ — The Big Catalyst? The Supreme Court Leaked Document
'Pro-Choice' Identification Rises to Near Record High in U.S. by Gallup (Lydia Saad) Upholding Roe v. Wade Is Supported by Most Americans, WSJ Poll Finds by Wall Street Journal (Catherine Lucey) Wall Street Gets Forced Into the Abortion Debate by Wall Street Journal (Angel Au-Yeung)

PART II (18:33 - 18:33) No Room Left For You Anymore: How Democrats Put Up Unwelcome Sign for Those Holding to a Pro-Life Position
How the Pro-Life Democrat Went Extinct by Wall Street Journal (Jayd Hendricks)

PART III (24:57 - 24:57) ‘The Moment You Sell More Adult Diapers Than Infant Diapers is a Bad Moment for Society’: Japan Faces Plummeting Fertility Rate
Japan’s New Thinking on Low Birthrate: Don’t Worry, Be Happy by Wall Street Journal (Miho Inada)

Friday, June 3, 2022

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

PART I (6:7 - 6:7) What Do Musk, Bezos, Gates, and Buffet Have in Common? Money. And They’ve Lost A Whole Lot of It This Year — What Does That Even Mean?
The Top 50 Richest People Have Lost More Than Half a Trillion Dollars This Year by Wall Street Journal (Joseph De Avila)

PART II (10:41 - 10:41) Constitutional Questions Erupt over Free Speech in Social Media as Supreme Court Places Hold on Texas Law to Limit Censorship by Platforms
Supreme Court Blocks Texas Law Regulating Social Media Platforms by New York Times (Adam Liptak)

PART III (14:58 - 14:58) Moving Testimonies Abound as Ireland Census Provides Citizens Opportunity to Write a Statement to Be Read in 100 Years
On Ireland’s Census, a Blank Box Gives Residents a Chance to Tell Their Stories by New York Times (Ed O'Loughlin)

PART IV (20:51 - 20:51) How Would You Address a Transgender Person in a Casual Conversation? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART V (23:16 - 23:16) Does President Biden Take the Lord’s Name in Vain When He Says ‘For God’s Sake’ in His Speeches? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VI (26:25 - 26:25) Why Won’t We Be Married in Heaven? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART VII (29:59 - 29:59) What Is the Importance of the Doctrine of Biblical Inspiration? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, June 2, 2022

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

PART I (15:47 - 15:47) ‘No Matter the Law, I Will Not Prosecute’: The Rise of Progressive Prosecutors and Their Subversion of the Rule of Law
My Governor Can Pass Bad Abortion Laws. But I Won’t Enforce Them. by New York Times (Steve Descano)

PART II (20:25 - 20:25) Moral Agency and Legal Accountability: A Continuing Question for the Pro-Life Movement

PART III (25:8 - 25:8) ‘If Roe v. Wade is Overturned, More People Will Leave Your Churches’: A Call to Christian Faithfulness In the Face of Pressure to Capitulate On Our Pro-Life Convictions
Americans' Erratic Relationship with Religion will be Tested Again after Abortion Ruling, Experts Say by USA Today (Sarah Elbeshbishi)

Secularism, Secularization, and the Collapse of Christian Ireland — A Conversation with Crawford Gribben

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Wednesday, June 1, 2022

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

PART I (16:10 - 16:10) Who is and is Not an Adult? How Can You Tell? Evaluating Our Contemporary Confusion over the Definition of Adulthood
Why Do We Let Children Buy Firearms? by Washington Post (Ruth Marcus)

PART II (19:32 - 19:32) ‘When I Became a Man, I Put Away Childish Things’: The Biblical Concept of Adulthood

PART III (27:37 - 27:37) Wall Street Journal Feature Argues for the Strategic Use of A Curse Word or Two to Increase the Strength of Your Online Reviews — But How About the Moral Use of Words?
Why Cursing in Online Reviews Can Actually Be a Good Thing by Wall Street Journal (Katherine C. Lafreniere and Sarah G. Moore)

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

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

PART I (11:60 - 11:60) What Does Victory in War Mean?: A Voice from the Past Argues for Realism when Looking at Russia’s War with Ukraine
How Does It End? Fissures Emerge Over What Constitutes Victory in Ukraine by New York Times (David E. Sanger, Steven Erlanger and Eric Schmitt)

PART II (20:49 - 20:49) Contain, Constrain, Combat? The Strategy of the United States in the Fight Against World Communism
U.S. Aims to Constrain China by Shaping Its Environment, Blinken Says by New York Times (Edward Wong and Ana Swanson)

PART III (24:53 - 24:53) The Continuous Clash of Worldviews in a Fallen World: The Vexing Challenge of Containing Sin

Friday, May 27, 2022

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

PART I (14:42 - 14:42) ‘Shall the Fundamentalists Win?’: Looking Back 100 Years to Harry Emerson Fosdick’s Famous Sermon Declaring Modernist War on Biblical Christianity
100 Years Later, Fosdick’s Question, ‘Shall the Fundamentalists Win?’ Still Echoes by Religion News Service (Jacob Lupfer) Religion: Riverside Church by Time “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?”: Defending Liberal Protestantism in the 1920s by Riverside Church

PART II (17:58 - 17:58) Are Adam and Eve in Heaven? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART III (19:8 - 19:8) Can I Keep My School’s Worldview Day From Bringing About the Same Controversy as Faced by that Christian School in Louisville? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

PART IV (24:39 - 24:39) What is the Christian Position on Burial at Sea? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters from Listeners of The Briefing

Thursday, May 26, 2022

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

PART I (2:20 - 2:20) A Time to Mourn: The Nation Looks to Uvalde as Details of School Shooting Emerge

PART II (14:55 - 14:55) ‘I Respect People's Views . . . But I Don't Respect Us Foisting It Onto Others.’: Speaker Nancy Pelosi Speaks Her Mind About the Archbishop’s Communion Ban
Transcript of Speaker Pelosi Interview on MSNBC's Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist by Speaker of the House Newsroom Letters to the Editor: Deny Nancy Pelosi Communion? She’s Not the Only Pro-Choice Catholic by LA Times ‘Not a Happy Experience’: Pro-Abortion Sen. Dick Durbin on His 17-Year Communion Ban by National Catholic Register (Joan Frawley Desmond)

PART III (23:43 - 23:43) The Politicization of Medicine Added to Constitutional Confusion: Confronting The Lancet’s Argument for Abandoning the U.S. Constitution in Light of 21st Century ‘Science’
Why Roe v. Wade Must be Defended by The Lancet

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

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

PART I (10:32 - 10:32) Moral Atrocity Beyond Human Comprehension as Deadliest School Shooting in Texas History Takes Place in Uvalde
Texas Governor: 15 Killed in School Shooting; Gunman Dead by Associated Press (Eugene Garcia and Dario Lopez-Mills)

PART II (20:47 - 20:47) Is the Russian Tank Soldier a War Criminal? Thinking Through the War Crimes Trial of Russian Soldier in Kyiv

PART III (24:26 - 24:26) ‘Imagine the World If Nazi Germany Had Been Successful’: The Christian Contribution of Just-War Theory in a World of Seemingly Interminable Evil