It's Friday, March 10, 2023. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing. A daily analysis

of news and events from a Christian worldview. For most of us, color is a big part of life.

It's also something interesting for us to think about as we try to think in the Christian

worldview perspective, because the Christian view of the world has to include something

so basic and fundamental as the existence of color and the perception of color, and the

fact that color is a big driver of things in our society. And in particular, the news

story that occasions this conversation has to do with the fact that there are big trends

in the colors of cars Americans are buying. And increasingly, they are newly invented

or newly designed, artistically calibrated forms of earth tones and shades of gray. Now,

why that's news is quite simple. And that is because this represents a big change in automobile

sales. And in the colors people want on their cars and trucks and vehicles. Now, you might

say this is a shift from big, bright, metallic colors to more muted earth tones. But actually,

we need to stipulate right up front that the vast majority of automobiles and vehicles

sold in the United States are white, or they are some variant of white, or they are white

or black, or some variant between those two. But nonetheless, when you think of cars in

the United States, you think of very popular colors. Many of those are indicative of cultural

trends. And that's why we're thinking about it today. Our color preferences say a great

deal about us. And right now, you have probably perceived this yourself. There is a distinction.

There's something new going on when it comes to vehicle sales. And there's a lot of

gray. There's a lot of putty. There is a lot of color that even as some observers have

recognized, looks more like an undercoat than a finish coat. But it's often a finish

coat that's very expensive at that. So first of all, interesting question from a biblical

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