Thursday, April 2, 2026

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 2 April 2026

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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 amazing Artemis II launch, the oral arguments at SCOTUS over birthright citizenship, the moral dimension of reality tv, and the liberal outrage to the IOC ruling on men in women’s sports.
Part I (00:14 – 06:48)
Astronauts Begin Journey to the Dark Side of the Moon: The Amazing Artemis II Launch Yesterday
Part II (06:48 – 16:12)
Birthright Citizenship Before Supreme Court: SCOTUS Hears Oral Arguments on Birthright Citizenship, and the Justices Seem Posed to Keep It in Place

Trump v. Barbara by The Supreme Court of the United States

Part III (16:12 – 23:16)
The Moral Dimension of Reality TV: What The Bachelorette Reveals About the Morality of Our Entertainment Programs

Her Past Was No Secret. Footage of a Child’s Cry Changed Everything. by The New York Times (Julia Jacobs and John Koblin)

Part IV (23:16 – 28:20)
The Liberal Outrage to the International Olympic Committee’s Ruling on Men in Women’s Sports – But the IOC Isn’t Exactly A Conservative Conspiracy

Olympic ban on transgender women stems from fear and feelings, not facts by USA Today (Nancy Armour)
More Right-Wingers Ban Trans Athletes by The Wall Street Journal (The Editorial Board)

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, April 2, 2006.
0:07.0	I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:14.0	Well, it happened. Artemis II took off yesterday from the Kennedy Space Center and is now progressing on its way to the dark side of the moon.
0:22.6	It's an amazing story. If you saw the launch, and I hope you saw the launch, it was an amazing thing just to see.
0:29.6	And I have to tell you, I am still the little boy who grew up in Florida very close to the space center in such a way that I can see these launches.
0:36.6	And I still feel
0:38.2	the same wonder, the same amazement, the same joy. And the same patriotic pride, I have to tell you,
0:44.4	in seeing such things happen. We're talking about the largest manned vehicle the United States
0:50.0	has ever sent into space. By some reckoning is the largest vehicle it is ever sent into outer space.
0:55.4	We're talking about engines that produced 8.8 million pounds of thrust. It's hard even to imagine that.
1:03.0	8.8 million pounds of thrust. The thing shuddered. It shook. The flames came out. And then, of course, that vehicle took off.
1:13.7	Carrying four human beings, three Americans and one Canadian. And, of course, we were praying for
1:18.2	them as that vehicle took off because, you know, that's one of the most dangerous periods there in
1:22.6	the first seconds of the launch of those unbelievable spacecraft. This particular crew is headed by Reed Weissman,
1:31.3	who is a NASA astronaut and mission commander, and serving with him Victor Glover and Christina Koch,
1:37.3	two fellow Americans, as well as Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hanson. And so three Americans and a Canadian, I'm just going to bet you they are not going to debate international affairs and terrorists up there in space. I think this is a happy melding of three Americans and a Canadian doing fantastically important to work. And indeed, if this mission goes as is planned and the trajectory of the spacecraft goes as
2:02.4	as is planned, this incredible Artemis II rocket and space craft, if it goes as planned,
2:08.2	they're going to go further than any human beings have ever gone into outer space.
2:12.7	And they're going to do so in an orbit, an elliptical orbit, around the moon, which is going to take them famously
2:20.0	towards the dark side of the moon.
2:21.6	They're going to cross the dark side of the moon and further from the moon than any previous
2:27.3	moon mission, any previous manned mission.
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