Thursday, May 28, 2026
5/28/202625 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses a doctor who made a positive MAID assessment that led to the patient’s death outside a Tim Hortons in Canada, that the decline in birth rates happening everywhere, and sin at the root of the birth rate crisis.
Part I (00:14 – 10:20)
Doctor Makes MAID Assessment Outside Tim Hortons: The Culture of Death Has Reached New Depths of Evil in Canada
- Ontario man dies of MAID after being assessed outside Tim Hortons by National Post (Sharon Kirkey)
Part II (10:20 – 19:07)
The Decline in Birth Rates is Happening Everywhere: The Surprising Trends Causing Catastrophic Birth Rates Have Been a Longtime Coming
- Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once by The Financial Times (John Burn-Murdoch)
Part III (19:07 – 25:23)
The Spiritual Problem of Falling Birth Rates: Sin is the Ultimate Root of This Crisis and Not Just External Factors
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[intro music] It's Thursday, May twenty-eight, two thousand twenty-six. I'm Albert Mohler, and this is "The Briefing," a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. Today, we need to look at several direct threats to human dignity and, in particular, to the future of humanity. Let's just look at one big story. We look across America's northern border, and we see in Canada the slide of a euthanasia culture, of an assisted suicide culture. We see the expanding logic, we see the deadly reach, and we also see, in the case of Canada, a velocity that, quite frankly, has seldom been seen. Now, perhaps that makes sense because the velocity began to speed up in other nations in Europe. And so by the time the nation of Canada really began to move in this direction, and remember, it was largely by a federal court decision, the fact is that a lot of the barriers had already been broken down. A lot of the resistance had already been worn down. And we see that in Canada, the speed bumps have basically been entirely removed. But then we also see that you have to question whether or not people in Canada can now be shocked by the reality that has been brought on their nation. The National Post, that's a major newspaper in Canada, has run a recent headline, quote, "Ontario man dies of MAID," M-A-I-D, that's medical assistance in dying, "after being assessed outside Tim Hortons." Now, many Americans immediately perk up at the hearing of Tim Hortons, a major Canadian donut shop. Canada's