It's Thursday, October 24, 2024.

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

Well, all around the world, the birth rates tend to be falling.

Nation by nation, birth rates are going down.

We already know at this point that the birth rate has fallen to catastrophic

non-replacement rates in place such as South Korea, but increasingly also in

other nations such as Italy. But quite frankly you look at nations including the United States and we are in a birth rate free fall and that spells big trouble and we need to take a closer look at what this means.

And we're thinking about this, of course, as most

people in the United States are thinking about the election to come, there's plenty to talk

about there. But the point is, we need to talk about this because this is by definition an even more basic issue

than who will be the next president of the United States. In Christian

worldview terms, we are talking here about creation order itself. That is to say these are issues that take us right

back to Genesis 1. If this takes us back to Genesis 1 it's a fundamental importance, but

it's also important to recognize that how people

respond to this story, whether or not even say major media consider it a story,

this turns out to be a part of the story. So let me tell you that in recent days, two successive days, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both ran major front-page articles.

So the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, we're talking

media establishment. Both of those papers within two days ran front page articles

on the failure of government policies

intended to raise the birth rate to actually do so.

So we start with the New York Times, because it was one day

before the Wall Street Journal,

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