Breakpoint

Colson Center
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Dec 21, 2022 • 1min

Mother of Child Thrown Over Balcony Speaks

The secular world doesn’t have a box for answered prayer or forgiveness. The Hoffman family does. Thank God.
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Dec 21, 2022 • 5min

What Our Cultural Artifacts Say to Us and About Us

If the power of our dominant cultural artifacts is to be countered and if new, better artifacts are to be created, Christians must be grounded in a thoroughly biblical vision for life and the world.
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Dec 20, 2022 • 1min

Babies Made to Order

When absolute autonomy is the only rule, and children are lifestyle choices, then we can’t be shocked when human beings can be added to our shopping carts. 
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Dec 20, 2022 • 6min

Putting Men in Women’s Prisons: A Social Experiment That Should Never Have Happened

The biological realities of men and women are not social constructs. By ignoring these realities, prisons in the U.S. and Canada are putting incarcerated women at increased risk of rape or violence.
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Dec 19, 2022 • 1min

A Pandemic Mini Baby Boom?

According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, there was an unintended side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic: a slight increase in U.S. fertility rates.
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Dec 19, 2022 • 5min

Earth Crammed With Heaven: God’s Glorious Works

We think it’s time to call Christians back to a bigger, older, and more thrilling way of seeing our world—of seeing Earth as crammed with heaven, because it is. That’s the theme of our upcoming Colson Center National Conference, May 19-21, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Registration is now open at colsonconference.org. 
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Dec 16, 2022 • 1h 4min

Bad Christmas Songs, an Offensive Celebration at the White House and What Happened in Loudoun County

When it comes to secular Christmas music there is the good, the bad and the ugly. John and Maria discuss them all. And how could Christians take part in a shocking White House celebration of the desecration of marriage?
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Dec 16, 2022 • 1min

What Parents (Don’t) Want from Disney

Maybe it’s time for Disney to listen to the words of a particularly wise old baboon. “The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.”
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Dec 16, 2022 • 5min

What the President Said About Millions of Americans

By linking opposition to the Respect for Marriage Act to (rightly) ostracized ideas like racism, advocates, like the president, are setting the stage for leveraging hate crime legislation and other cultural tools to criminalize dissent.
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Dec 15, 2022 • 59sec

Mommas Know Their Babies

To those who insist babies in the womb aren’t fully human or can be traded around like products, as in the case of surrogacy, science is stubborn. The more we learn, the clearer it becomes: Preborn children have rights.

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