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Breakpoint

Join John Stonestreet for a daily dose of sanity?applying a Christian worldview to culture, politics, movies, and more. And be a part of God's work restoring all things.

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Be Equipped to Live Courageously

Commitment to a gospel faith is going to cost us something; let?s prepare.  

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Reserve your spot for the Lighthouse Voices event with Brad Wilcox at colsoncenter.org/lighthouse

2024-04-15
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Experimenting on Breastfeeding Babies

A so-called step forward in ?gender affirming care? uses babies as props in yet another social experiment for narcissists.

2024-04-15
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Trump?s Statement on Abortion and IVF and Vatican Statement on Human Dignity

Former President Donald Trump tells voters how he?ll treat the abortion issue if he wins in November. And the Vatican releases a far-reaching statement on human dignity.

 

Recommendations

Lighthouse Voices with Brad Wilcox

Lila by Marilynne Robinson 

Segment 1 - Trump on Abortion

Read Trump abortion statement 

Breakpoint: Trump Announces His Position on Life Post-Roe

Don't Follow Your Heart by Thaddeus Williams

The World and Everything in It: April 10, 2024

Segment 2 - The Vatican?s Statement on Human Dignity 

Declaration ?Dignitas Infinita? on Human Dignity 

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Get your copy of The Beginning and End of All Things at colsoncenter.org/april

Register for the upcoming Lighthouse Voices, How Faith Matters For American Families, at colsoncenter.org/lighthouse.

2024-04-12
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Surrogacy Worst-Case Scenario Happens. Now What?

The time is now to start asking real questions about the unregulated industry of child manufacturing.

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2024-04-12
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Jordan Peterson on His Wife?s Faith

Tammy Peterson?s conversion to Christianity highlights how faith in Christ reveals true self.

2024-04-12
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Trump Announces His Position on Life Post-Roe

The catch-all statement exemplifies greater worldview falsehoods when it comes to protecting the preborn.

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Reserve your spot for the upcomign Lighthouse Voices event at colsoncenter.org/lighthouse

2024-04-11
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Butler and Postmodernism

 The social framework invasive in today?s culture seeks only to destroy.

2024-04-11
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Married People Are Happier; Religious Married People Are Happiest

Statistics back up God?s good plan for humanity and for His creation. 

Reserve your spot for the next Lighthouse Voices event at colsoncenter.org/lighthouse

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2024-04-10
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Scotland Is All Bark, No Bite

J.K. Rowling calls Scotland?s woke bluff in a win for women.

2024-04-10
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Richard Dawkins, a ?Cultural Christian?

You can?t have Christianity?s fruit without its root. 

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Learn more about the Colson Fellows program at colsonfellows.org

2024-04-09
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The Most Dangerous Idea in Human History

If Jesus is who He said He was, the implications are enormous.

2024-04-09
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A Texas Win Against Pornographers to Protect Kids

Other states are following the lead to pass age verification laws while content distributors fight for the right of ?artistic freedom.?

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Reserve your free place at the next Lighthouse Voices event at colsoncenter.org/lighthouse

2024-04-08
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Tech That Restores

In the age of remarkable technological feats, we must check our hubris from time to time.

2024-04-08
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The Desecration of Good Friday, Christian revival in Britain?, and The Solar Eclipse in Christian History

How LifeWise is Teaching the Bible to Public School Students

The good (and legal) news about Bible-based classes in local schools.

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Reserve your free spot for the next Lighthouse Voices event, How Faith Matters for American Families, at colsoncenter.org/lighthouse

2024-04-05
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A Heresy to ?Misgender? in Scotland

Anyone found guilty of hurtful content under the new law could face up to seven years in jail.

2024-04-05
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The Remarkable Story of Katharina von Bora, wife to Martin Luther

Escaping the nunnery to follow Christ led to a life full of service alongside one of the most seminal figures in Christianity. 

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2024-04-04
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God at March Madness

Coaches? professions of faith testify that God is in everything.

2024-04-04
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Love Tells the Truth

A 1 Corinthians look at the fullness of love in the age of identity culture.

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2024-04-03
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Canada Grants ?Medical Assistance in Dying? to Woman With Autism

Judge?s ruling suggests that her death would be less harmful than living with autism. 

2024-04-03
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The Transformative Power of the Word of God

Woman who underwent transgender surgeries shares how God restored her life as an image bearer.

2024-04-02
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The Desecration of Easter

Our culture is shifting from denying reality to attempting to usurp God?s authority over reality altogether.

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2024-04-02
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Government Should Promote What?s Good for Society, Not Just What?s Fair

Tax laws reflect value for life, marriage, and family. 

2024-04-01
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A Victory for Religious Freedom in Virginia

Christian groups ban together to fight compliance to strict DEI rules.  

2024-04-01
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Holy Week, the Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments on FDA Rules, and Prayers for Christians in Nigeria at Easter

John and Maria share thoughts on this most holy of weeks in the Christian faith. It?s the most dangerous of seasons for Christians in Nigeria. And the abortion pill goes on trial at the Supreme Court.

Holy Week Recommendations

Dear and Glorious Physician by Taylor Caldwell 

Lent for Everyone by N.T. Wright 

Death On A Friday Afternoon by Richard John Neuhaus 

The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible

 

Segment 1 - SCOTUS Oral Arguments on Abortion Pill

Supreme Court appears likely to allow abortion drug to remain available 

Abortion access again before Supreme Court 

Erin Hawley: The Woman Arguing Against the Abortion Pill 

The Strong Women Podcast

Segment 2 - Persecution of Nigerian Christians

In Nigeria, parents finally able to see children who were abducted from school in early March 

As Easter approaches, Christian persecution is on the rise 

Hold Nigeria accountable for its failure to stop internal religious violence 

ICON: International Committee on Nigeria

Segment 3 - Holy Week

Truth, Love, and Maundy Thursday 

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Claim your copy of Deconstruction of Christianity with your gift of any amount to the Colson Center this month at colsoncenter.org/march

Learn more about the Colson Fellows program at colsonfellows.org

2024-03-29
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The Heartbreak of a Nigerian Easter

Attacks on Nigerian Christians escalate over holidays.  

2024-03-29
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What It Means to Say, ?Christ Is Risen!?

For Christians, despair is a sin because hope is not a feeling, it?s a reality made alive in the resurrection of Christ. 

 

Secure your spot for the 2024 Colson Center National Conference today, go to colsonconference.org.

2024-03-29
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TikTok and Teens

After a little withdrawal, banning the wildly popular social media platform will only lead to good for teens addicted to screens.

 

2024-03-28
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Shame and the Cross

The reality of sin and why Good Friday is good news. 

 

To secure your spot for the 2024 Colson Center National Conference, visit colsonconference.org. 

2024-03-28
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Fired VT Coach Receives Settlement

Vermont school officials agree to pay damages to snowboard coach who stated boys have a physical advantage in sports.

2024-03-27
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How Johnny Hart Pointed to the Cross and Empty Tomb in the Funny Papers

How the creator of the Wizard of Id and B.C. taught millions about the resurrection of Christ.

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2024-03-27
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The Martyr Myth

Persecution works, except for a risen Savior. 

2024-03-26
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Transgender to Transformed: the Story of Laura Perry Smalts

Detransitioner tells why the Source of all reality is Jesus Christ.

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Get your copy of Deconstruction of Christianity with your gift of any amount at colsoncenter.org/March

2024-03-26
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Rewriting History in Real Time

A ban and then a swift unban by Veterans Affairs over a famous photo shows the vulnerability of truth on the internet.

2024-03-25
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Redeemed Imaginations

It's time for a revival of Christian imagination inspired by God instead of self and online likes.

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2024-03-25
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Detransitioner Tells Her Story, Bad Therapy, and Oral Arguments To Be Heard this Week Over FDA and Chemical Abortion

John discusses this week?s Light House Voices event featuring Laura Perry Smaltz. A new book from Abigail Shrier takes a hard look at therapy: the new theory of everything. And the Supreme Court will hear arguments this week on a challenge to the FDA?s continued lax rules for the abortion pill.

 

Recommendations

Lighthouse Voices with Laura Perry Smalts

The Alisa Childers Podcast: Is a Hyper-focus on Trauma Actually Hurting Us?  with Maria Baer

Masters of the Air

Segment 1 - Laura Perry Smalts Tells Her Story

Lighthouse Voices with Laura Perry Smalts

Transgender To Transformed

As Kids, They Thought They Were Trans. They No Longer Do.

Breakpoint Forum: The Real Facts About Gender Ideology

Segment 2 - Therapy: The New Theory of Everything

Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up by Abigail Shrier

Breakpoint: When ?Helping? Kids Hurts Them

Honestly with Bari Weiss: Why the Kids Aren't Alright

The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self by Carl R. Trueman

The Death of the Grown-Up by Diana West

Is a Hyper-focus on Trauma Actually Hurting Us?  with Maria Baer

Segment 3 - SCOTUS Hears Arguments on Relaxed Abortion Pill Rules

FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine 

Despite Bans, Number of Abortions in the United States Increased in 2023

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Get your copy of The Deconstruction of Christianity with your gift of any amount this month at colsoncenter.org/march

Learn more about the ACSI Rooted Conference at acsi.org.

2024-03-22
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Why Abortion Advocates No Longer Consider It ?A Necessary Evil?

The White House flips the script on morality in its public support of killing babies as ?healthcare? and its labeling of pro-lifers as ?extremists.?

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2024-03-22
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U.K. Bars Puberty Blockers for Minors

The NHS announced the decision after a years-long study found no significant change in the mental health of children treated for gender dysphoria. 

2024-03-22
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Free to Preach

A U.K. pastor wins legal battle to keep preaching after police told him he could not discuss other religions. 

2024-03-21
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Why More Americans (and Christians) Now Support Same-Sex ?Marriage?

How courts and culture have redefined marriage to point to self instead of Christ.

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Receive your copy of The Deconstruction of Christianity: What It Is, Why It?s Destructive, and How to Respond with your gift of any amount this month at colsoncenter.org/march

2024-03-21
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Hundreds More Students in Nigeria Abducted

Kidnappings add to the tens of thousands in recent years while the Nigerian government and the global community remains silent.

2024-03-20
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When ?Helping? Kids Hurts Them

Why the generation accessing the most mental therapy is the most mentally unhealthy.

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2024-03-20
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Action and Prayer, Not Action or Prayer

Debunking the notion that Christians pray while atheists do.

2024-03-19
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CVS and Walgreens Become Abortion Providers

Pharmacy chains to start selling the chemical abortion pill mifepristone in several states this month. 

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2024-03-19
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Freedom Requires Virtue

Covid revealed unscrupulous practices in industries that exist to serve people. 

2024-03-18
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Teaching in Service to God and Truth

Christian educators can be the antidote to the murky educational system of the moment.

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To learn more about the Rooted Educator Worldview Summit, visit acsi.org.

2024-03-18
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A Taste of the New Jerusalem

Christians share a bond that transcends race and identity.

2024-03-15
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The Story of St. Patrick

Of the thousands of green revelers, few know about the slave and evangelist for whom St. Patrick?s Day is named.

To learn more about this man of faith and his consequential life, check out this Breakpoint interview between Shane Morris and T.M. Moore, a former colleague of Chuck?s and the author of Celtic Flame: The Burden of St. Patrick.

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2024-03-15
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More Men Than Women Want Kids

The unsustainable trend of absolute autonomy as the meaning of life.

2024-03-14
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