Wednesday, January 21, 2026
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 21 January 2026
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Summary
Part I (00:14 – 15:51)
China’s Is Facing a Demographic Catastrophe: China’s Birthrate Is Dropping Fast
- China’s Birthrate Plunges to Lowest Level Since 1949 by The New York Times (Alexandra Stevenson)
- China’s Birthrate Sinks to Record Low by The Wall Street Journal (Hannah Miao)
- China’s birth rate fell to a record low last year despite attempts to boost it by NPR (Anthony Kuhn)
China Puts a Heavy Tax on Condoms: The CCP is Trying Anything toIncrease the Birthrate, And It’s Not Working
Part III (19:28 – 21:32)
Secularism and the Decline of the Birthrate: When Belief in God Goes Away, So Do the Babies
Part IV (21:32 – 26:45)
Will the DSM Add Postpartum Depression as a Diagnosis? There are Big Issues Behind This Consideration
- Will ‘Psychiatry’s Bible’ Add a Postpartum Psychosis Diagnosis? by The New York Times (Ellen Barry and Pam Belluck)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, January 21st, 2006. |
| 0:08.2 | I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.5 | Sometimes statistics basically present numbers. |
| 0:17.8 | Sometimes those numbers are important, sometimes not. |
| 0:20.6 | But sometimes you see in statistics |
| 0:22.6 | or in even government reports something that amounts to a worldview crisis, perhaps even a |
| 0:28.5 | worldview catastrophe. That's what has taken place just over the course of the last couple of days |
| 0:33.7 | with reports coming out from China. So we're talking about official reports coming out with the |
| 0:39.2 | authorization of the government headed, of course, by the Communist Party there in China. And that |
| 0:45.6 | government has released information indicating that the birth rate in China for the last completed |
| 0:51.9 | year is the lowest of the entire period of the dominance of the |
| 0:57.0 | Chinese Communist Party there. So in the entire history of the Communist Party there in China, |
| 1:03.6 | we're looking at the lowest birth rate ever. And as you look at this, you recognize that when |
| 1:09.0 | you see China, you have generally thought over |
| 1:11.5 | the course of the last several decades of the world's most populous country. |
| 1:15.1 | It isn't now. |
| 1:16.3 | It fell to second place behind India in the year 2023. |
| 1:20.6 | But what we're looking at in China right now is what can only be described as a demographic |
| 1:25.7 | catastrophe. |
| 1:27.2 | It's interesting to see that the mainstream |
| 1:29.2 | media in the United States know this is a big story. Now more on that in just a moment, |
| 1:34.3 | but they do know this is a big story. The headline in the New York Times, China pushes for families |
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