Breakpoint

Staying focused on Christ in the upside-down world of social media proclamations.

College campuses across the US saw protests and clashes with police by pro-Palestine demonstrators. Oral arguments at the Supreme Court on a Biden administration policy that requires emergency abortion care in states where abortion has been heavily restricted. And a new report urges extreme caution in treating children with gender dysphoria.

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The Cass Report

The World and Everything in It: April 25, 2024

Segment 1 - Campus Unrest Over Gaza

Encampments continue at Columbia as police descend on protestors at University of Texas at Austin 

Segment 2 - Emergency Abortion Care at SCOTUS

Conservative justices appear skeptical federal law requires emergency abortion care 

Breakpoint: Bill Maher Says it Out Loud 

Segment 3 - Extreme Caution Urged in Treating Gender Dysphoria

The Cass Report is out – an early analysis of findings and recommendations 

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New book on creation theology orients readers beautifully to who God is and why we are his image bearers.

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Our cultural attention is on girls, but we can’t neglect the proper self-confidence building of boys.

It turns out, the human condition requires accountability, not absolution, from the state.

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Preventative care is down; taxpayer-funded abortions and “gender-affirming” care is way up.

Collective action is what we sometimes need to save our children.

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The state legislature passes pro-life material for its pro-family curriculum.

Old laws can be good.

The declaration explains why image bearers should reject all attempts to obscure sexual differences.  

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New rules will strip rights from parents, children, and women.

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Beloved pastor predicted the local church’s essential role in the age of screens.

The Biden administration makes sweeping changes to gender identity and sexual orientation in Title IX. In Belgium, a mayor shuts down a conference that backs free speech. And we’ll look at the implications of Iran’s attack on Israel.

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Manhunt

Surrogacy Makes More Babies. Pro-Lifers Should Still Oppose It. by Katy Faust

Segment 1 - Title IX

Biden Admin Adds ‘Gender Identity’ as Protected Class in New Title IX Rules, but Sidesteps Trans-Athlete Policy

Breakpoint: Trump’s Statement on Abortion and IVF and Vatican Statement on Human Dignity

Jennifer Sey on Title IX

West Virginia Girls 'Step-Out' Of Track & Field Meet To Protest Transgender Competitor

Segment 2 - Belgian Mayor Shuts Down Conservative Convention

Farage and Orban’s Brussels Jamboree Descends into mayhem amid police seige 

Free Speech Prevails for “NatCon:” Belgian court strikes down order shuttering conservative conference 

Belgian police shut down a far-right conference as it rallies ahead of Europe’s June elections 

NPR boss once called the First Amendment a 'challenge' and 'reverence for the truth' a distraction

Segment 3 - Iran Attacks Israel

Netanyahu says Israel will decide how to respond as Iran warns against retaliation 

What we know about Iran’s Attack on Israel and what happens Next 

Wave of Pro-Palestinian Protests closes bridges, major roads across the U.S. 

Hamas rejects Israel’s ceasefire response as Iran sends drones to Israel 

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A swelling cultural shift bent on censorship could be what kills democracy. 

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“Exvangelicals” seem everywhere, but happy followers of Christ are speaking up. 

God’s goal has always been to be in unbroken fellowship with us and with His creation.

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TV host hushes the crowd after calling abortion for what it is. 

How C.S. Lewis has helped this world of believers and skeptics alike understand Christian hope for the past 80 years.

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Adopting LGBTQ language will not protect kids.

Enduring years of legal battles and media vilification, pro-life activist faithfully exposes Planned Parenthood’s trafficking of baby body parts.  

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Bill intends to help residents report “hate crimes” and “bias” against fellow citizens.

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

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

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.

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Lighthouse Voices with Brad Wilcox

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can’t have Christianity’s fruit without its root. 

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

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

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Carl Truman on First Things

Carl Truman on Breakpoint

Just Brierly's podcasts

Segment 1 - Desecration vs. Disenchantment

Breakpoint: The Desecration of Easter

Biden Proclaims Easter Sunday “Trans Day of Visibility” 

LGBT "holidays"

Trumpet Evangelicalism or Bidenist Catholicism? by Carl Truman

Segment 2 - Is a Christian revival coming?

Breakpoint: God at March Madness

Richard Dawkins warming up to Christianity 

Abigail Shrier on Easter

Jordan Peterson’s wife, Tammy, converts to Catholicism 

A Christian Revival is Underway in Britain 

Segment 3 - The Total Eclipse

Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Attacks on Nigerian Christians escalate over holidays.  

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.

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

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

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

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

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Persecution works, except for a risen Savior. 

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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Debunking the notion that Christians pray while atheists do.

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

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

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

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NIHILISM—IN NAZI GERMANY AND TODAY by Carl Trueman

Resources

Carl R. Trueman Interview with Kevin DeYoung | Faithful Conference 2023

Knowing God by J.I. Packer

The Colson Fellows Program

Carl Trueman on First Things

“Parable of the Madman” by Friedrich Nietzsche

How Now Shall We Live? by Chuck Colson and Nancy Pearcey

The Last Christian on Earth by Os Guinness

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Christians share a bond that transcends race and identity.

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

The Christian alternative to doom-and-gloom environmentalism. 

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A Kentucky region riddled with the opioid epidemic is fighting for sobriety and finding motivation in business ownership.

New book helps us understand and respond to the phenomenon seeping into the Church.

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What does the future of AI look like if it’s not committed to telling the truth?

Despite what oracles of a post-Christian society promised, the kids are far from happier and free.

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Christians burned at the stake for refusing to deny Christ is in no way the same as self-immolation to protest Israel.

It’s about honoring God no matter what for Hobby Lobby owners David and Barbara Green.

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Michael Shellenberger's website

The Picture Bible

Segment 1: WPATH Scandal

The WPATH Files 

Secret Files Show how international group pushes shocking experimental gender surgery for minors 

Segment 2: Planned Parenthood Profiting from Fetal Body Parts

Center for Medical Progress  

Documents show Planned Parenthood Exchanges Baby Body Parts for Intellectual Property Rights 

Segment 3: Investigating Debanking

Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government 

De-Banking: Cancel Culture’s Newest Threat 

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Being honest about police shootings. 

It turns out the science isn’t settled and suffering families have been lied to all along. 

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A win for Christians praying near abortion clinics.

Referendum seeks to eliminate the word “mother” and reference to marriage from the Irish constitution. 

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The increasing trend of believers attending same-sex “weddings” belies a bigger problem with our Christian worldview. 

Scientists who mimic creation’s design unknowingly glorify the Creator.

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Many who champion progressive “freedoms” live traditional lives.

In a prolife world, recent reports about rape rates would be a shocking story about crime and not about access to abortion.

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Appellate court to decide on the “harm” a shirt stating traditional genders had on a school that encouraged students to wear Pride apparel.

Another case of a teen taken from home over pronoun usage. 

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John and Maria discuss two issues that dominated the news last week, the biased replies from Google Gemini and a new study that finds married couples are the happiest.

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Abigail Shrier on Freedom in an Age of Fear

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

The Case for Life by Scott Klusendorf 

Segment 1: Has AI Gone Woke?

Breakpoint Forum: The Perils and Promise of Artificial Intelligence

Google hopeful of fix for Gemini’s historical-image diversity issue within weeks 

Google Gemini Controversy Explained: AI Model Criticized by Musk and Others Over Alleged Bias 

The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul 

The Way of the (Modern) World by Craig Gay

The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind by Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean

Segment 2: Polls Show Married People Are Happiest

Why you should get married

Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization by Brad Wilcox

The hidden social justice issue

Wedded Bliss is True, not Trendy 

Brad Wilcox on X

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Progressive ideology, not the Right-wing patriarchy, is denying women at the federal level their privacy, scholarships, and equity in sports.

Now that abortion rights are left to the states, it’s more important than ever we tell the truth about preborn life.

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In contrast to what the government keeps telling us, Americans want religious freedom and support with their kids’ educations. 

Thinking about our relationship to time from a Judeo-Christian understanding.

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Attacks on churches and pro-Christian causes are not met with the same outcry as other hate crimes.

Some moral clarity for an industry that has been an ethical Wild West. 

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We can count on Jesus’ teachings to heal what ails us in society.   

There's something missing from the cost-benefit analysis. 

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Studies show that married couples are the most satisfied with their personal lives.