It's Wednesday, March 26, 2025. I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

When we are seeking to think faithfully in terms of dealing with the issues of the day through a Christian worldview. One of the

things we have to understand is relative weight or relative priority. What's the most urgent issue?

One of the lessons we need to learn, one of the principles by which we need to operate, is that

when something gets close to creation order, it becomes more important. The closer to creation order,

the greater the urgency. Or to put it another way, when you have a crisis in creation order,

you have a crisis in every dimension of human life. This is an urgent crisis. Now, every once in

a while, a headline passes by and you recognize, now wait just a minute,

this is a five-o-arm fire. Here's the headline. It's from the review section of the weekend

edition of the Wall Street Journal. Here's the headline, American women are giving up on

marriage. Now, in journalism, you're looking at headlines as being sometimes overblown. That's just

the fact of life.

Especially in the day of more sensational journalism,

headlines will be offered in order to entice you into the story.

You know, alien ship attacks New York City or something,

only to find out it was something very different.

But in this case, we're not talking about science fiction.

We're not talking about some kind of sensationalism.

It really is very difficult to imagine how you could exaggerate the problem of American women giving up on marriage.

So there's the headline. So what's behind it? First of all, the story is by Rachel Wolfe.

And the subhead on the article says this, quote, major demographic shifts to put men and women on divergent paths.

That's left more women resigned to being single. The numbers aren't netting out. That's a

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