It's Friday, September 12, 2025.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

It is very tempting just to talk about the headlines day by day because it's easy to be driven by them. Social media

driven by headlines and by online activity. Algorithms can tell you what's most popular,

what people are talking about. But as Christians, sometimes we need to take a step back and

see if we're missing something in the big scale. And one of the things I think we are missing is the fact that we are now experiencing

as a society a massive amount of social change in the wrong direction.

And that social change is coming at the expense of children, at the expense of families,

at the expense of marriage, and at the expense even of what these days is sometimes referred to as

adulting. The propensity of so many young people not to grow up, and in particular, a crisis

among young men has become so acute that some of the recent headlines, even this week,

have just drawn attention to the fact that we are in a time of turmoil and trouble

when it comes to what Christians ought to be able to see clearly and to understand

in basic biblical in creation order terms.

So let's just look, for instance, at the fact that USA Today and the New York Times, both

just in the last several days, came out with articles about the fact

that an awful lot of young adults aren't actually growing up into adulthood. They are

postponing basic adult responsibilities. And most importantly, they are postponing marriage

and they are postponing having children. So USA Today came out with an article just as we head into the

weekend. The headline, Path to Adulthood, takes new detours. The headline in the New York Times

was a bit different, putting off yearning until they're earning. The subhead dating is easier and is

more likely to be satisfying for people who

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