Friday, February 27, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 27 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
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 (00:14 – 07:37)
A Dark Dating Reality: Younger Generations May Never Even Marry – This is Catastrophic
- The generation that may never marry by The Spectator (Aria Schrecker)
Having Children Won’t Make You Happy? Secularists are Worried About Your Happiness, but the Christian Worldview is More Concerned About Joy
- Think having children will make you happier? Think again by The Telegraph (Eir Nolsøe)
Is Designing Missiles Contrary to My Christian Faith? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter From a 19-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing
Part IV (17:56 – 21:03)
Should My Daughter Participate in Wrestling as a Sport? — Dr. Mohler Responds to Letters From Listeners of The Briefing
Part V (21:03 – 26:38)
Do Children Bear Moral Responsibility For What They Believe? — Dr. Mohler Responds to a Letter From a 16-Year-Old Listener of The Briefing
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, February 27, 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, you know, sometimes you see something, and you know, that looks important. |
| 0:18.0 | Other times you look at it and you go, oh my, that's just massively |
| 0:21.2 | important. The Spectator, which is a major periodical in London, ran an article, and it is |
| 0:27.1 | directed primarily at the British people. But trust me, this is important. Here's the headline, |
| 0:32.7 | the generation that may never marry. So in this case, Ariah Shrekker, who writes the article, is looking at recent |
| 0:41.1 | statistics in the United Kingdom, in Britain, and coming to understand that the young adults alive |
| 0:46.8 | right now may be the generation least likely to marry during their lifetimes of any recordable British generation. That's how fast |
| 0:57.2 | marriage, not just as a marriage culture, but marriage itself is disappearing. It's just disappearing |
| 1:02.8 | a frightening velocity. She writes, quote, if you were born in 1960, you had an 85% chance of |
| 1:10.1 | getting married by the time you turned 40. So if you were born in 1960, you had an 85% chance of getting married by the time you turned 40. So if you were born in |
| 1:14.1 | 1960, and I was born a little bit before that, but that's my generation, 85% chance of getting |
| 1:19.9 | married by age 40. Quote, this fell by more than 10 percentage points for women born in 1970, |
| 1:26.0 | by more than 10 percentage points again for women born in 1980, |
| 1:30.9 | and the numbers aren't yet clear for women born in 1990, but the truth is already visible enough to be devastating. |
| 1:40.1 | The fact is that an awful lot of young people in Great Britain right now are just never going to get married. |
| 1:46.2 | They aren't. |
| 1:46.9 | They're not doing the things that lead to marriage. |
| 1:49.0 | In many cases, they're not even aiming for marriage. |
| 1:52.6 | Now, when you look at these to say, how in the world can this happen? |
| 1:54.8 | Well, number one, the first way it happens is because you have a society that particularly with birth control and contraception separated sex from marriage and also sex and marriage from procreation from reproduction and thus you had a whole new sexual economy that came without the consequence of pregnancy and of course christians understand that is a huge problem going back to a revolt |
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