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The BreakPoint Podcast is a show that I consistently look forward to listening to every week. Hosted by John Stonestreet and Maria, this podcast offers a wealth of wisdom, insight, and Biblical truths as they discuss current issues and events in our country. The episodes are always thought-provoking and provide a fresh perspective on topics that are relevant to Christians today.
One of the best aspects of this podcast is how it is grounded in biblical principles. John and Maria approach each topic with a solid understanding of the Scriptures, allowing them to provide insightful analysis and practical applications for listeners. They tackle a wide range of topics, from cultural trends to political events, always bringing an informed Christian perspective to the discussion.
Another aspect that sets this podcast apart is the addition of Maria to the show. Her clear communication style and valuable perspective as a young female make her an excellent counterpart to John's insights. She adds depth and nuance to the discussions, particularly when addressing issues such as sexual abuse or harassment accusations against public figures. Her contributions are necessary and helpful in shaping a well-rounded dialogue.
While there may not be any significant drawbacks to The BreakPoint Podcast, it's worth mentioning that some listeners might not agree with all the viewpoints presented. However, even if you don't align perfectly with their perspectives, John and Maria's thoughtful discussions will still challenge you to think critically about your own beliefs and how they line up with what is true.
In conclusion, The BreakPoint Podcast is an exceptional resource for Christians who want to engage with culture through a biblical lens. It offers valuable insights into current events, challenges listeners to examine their beliefs, and provides practical ways to live out their faith in today's world. I highly recommend this podcast for anyone seeking intelligent analysis combined with biblically grounded wisdom.

A devastating earthquake hits Venezuela. John and Maria discuss socialist primary victories in New York, a new Gallup poll on religion, the New York Times' Father's Day essay, Canada's speech law, anti-Semitism on the right, and listener questions. Segment 1 – Venezuela Earthquake; NYC Primaries; Religion in America Venezuela earthquake article Coverage of New York City primary elections Gallup poll on religion in America Segment 2 – Father's Day; Canada's Speech Law; Anti-Semitism New York Times Father's Day essay coverage Canada Bill C-9 Tucker Carlson interview with JD Hall Open Doors World Watch List 2026 Segment 3 – Questions and Comments Wild at Heart by John Eldredge Free Press article on Christian men's retreat Question on church membership and transgender-identifying individuals

Millions of Americans now believe and live as if Obergefell has settled the question of same-sex "marriage". It did not. __________ Help ADF defend our freedoms by giving at joinadf.com/breakpoint.

The French philosopher rejected fixed human nature and birthed an identity crisis for the books. __________ Help ADF defend our freedoms by giving at joinadf.com/breakpoint.

If we are to be people who are faithful to our families, our nation, and to God, we will need His help. __________ Help ADF defend our freedoms by giving at joinadf.com/breakpoint.

Religious worldview matters. __________ Help ADF defend our freedoms by giving at joinadf.com/breakpoint.

Should Christians love their country? __________ Help ADF defend our freedoms by giving at joinadf.com/breakpoint.

Details of the deal to end hostilities between the US and Iran have been released. Also released this week a report on sexual abuse of women and girls in the UK. The World Cup's attempt at a pride match hits a snag. Segment 1 – Iran Deal; UK Rape Report MSN article on Iran Deal Breakpoint interview with Eric Patterson The Looming Tower by Larence Wright What ISIS Really Wants The Death of the Grown Up The Clash of Civilizations UK Rape Report UK Social Media Ban Proposal Segment 2 – World Cup Pride Match; WPATH Sued; PCUSA Proposes Monogamy Yahoo article on World Cup Christian Post article on WPATH Fox article on minor league team refusing to wear uniforms RNS article on Presbyterian Church USA Segment 3 – Importance of Fathers IFS Study on Fathers I Was Longing for a Father Why Fathers Matter BP article

Happy Father's Day to all the dads; you make a difference. __________ Help ADF defend our freedoms by giving at joinadf.com/breakpoint.

What does Scripture say about the role and rank of angels? __________ Help ADF defend our freedoms by giving at joinadf.com/breakpoint.

Professor Robert P. George joins John Stonestreet in discussing Fidelity Month.

They came for the soccer, but America is wooing international first-timers. __________ Help ADF defend our freedoms by giving at joinadf.com/breakpoint.

Believers should speak of our Savior, the Bible, and our faith with the confidence of both objective truth and a changed life. __________ Help ADF defend our freedoms by giving at joinadf.com/breakpoint.

Non-believers don't understand how theologically deep and rooted is the Christian faith in truth. __________ Help ADF defend our freedoms by giving at adf.com/breakpoint.

Sen Lee of Utah took exception with the Pentagon's labelling. NYT announces a new era of gene editing. John talks to Professor Robbie George about Fidelity Month. HelloFresh promotes perversion, A YouTuber is criticized for aborting a preborn baby diagnosed with Down Syndrome, but Bethany Christian Services makes a welcome change. Segment 1 – Are Mormons Christian? Gene Editing is Back Breakpoint article NY Times article on gene editing Andrew Walker article Segment 2 – Fidelity Month Fidelity Month website Segment 3 – YouTuber Kills Preborn Baby after Down Syndrome Diagnosis YouTuber article Spectator Hello Fresh article Bethany Christian Services statement Resolve Conflict and Find Peace and Hope with Adult Children: Strategies and Conversations That Work by Kathy Koch

America's founding recognizes human exceptionalism. __________ Help ADF defend our freedoms by giving at adf.com/breakpoint.

Bacon was an important thinker for the future and the Christian faith. __________ Help ADF defend our freedoms by giving at adf.com/breakpoint.

The debate about what it means to be a Christian clearly needed to happen. __________ Help us reach our $1 million goal by June 30 at colsoncenter.org/june.

What should winning the kingdom really look like for the young men excited about their faith? __________ Help ADF defend our freedoms by giving at adf.com/breakpoint.

Dr. Kathy Koch shares three insights from her new book, Resolve Conflict and Find Peace and Hope with Adult Children, that can keep your relationship with your children healthy and restore it if it's unhealthy. __________ Help ADF defend our freedoms by giving at adf.com/breakpoint.

Pope Leo's Letter has some thoughts on artificial intelligence; an increasing number of schools are telling students to leave their phones at home; Pride Month isn't getting as much recognition this year and college students can't read. Recommendations The Call by Os Guinness Engaging God's World by Cornelius Plantinga Truth Rising Study Summit Worldview Academy Just Do Something by Kevin DeYoung Segment 1 – Pope Leo's Magnifica Humanitas and Schools Ban Phones Magnifica Humanitas Jonathan Haidt's Ted Talk Behind the AI Curtain by Don Sweeting BPTW with John Stonestreet and John Lennox Dallas schools see strong boost in school library use since banning phones Segment 2 – Fidelity Month Podium article Retailers Scale Back Pride Month Themed Apparel for Children After decades of rising support, same-sex marriage acceptance may be stalling, Gallup poll shows Segment 3 – College Students Can't Read Harvard policy Chronicle of Higher Education article Greater Than Campaign

A look at Al Gore's documentary 20 years later. __________ Help us reach our $1 million goal by June 30 at colsoncenter.org/june.

Tim Goeglein joins John Stonestreet in discussing Tim's new book, What Really Matters: Restoring a Legacy of Faith, Freedom, and Family.

The fight for life-giving humor. __________ Educators, bring a deeper Christian worldview into your classroom by visiting colsonfellows.org/apply.

Catto believed fighting for equality was part of the Christian duty. __________ Download the Colson Educators app today on the Apple App Store or Google Play.

If killing critically ill newborns isn't the line, where is it for medically assisted suicide? __________ Start Truth Rising: The Study for free today at colsoncenter.org/study.

A month of fidelity, not pride. ___________ Partner with thousands of others in supporting The Colson Center by visiting colsoncenter.org/cornerstone.

Beyond time, Father, Son, and Spirit has had full personal fellowship within Himself. __________ Join us in praying for our country by visiting joinadf.com/breakpoint.

John interviews Oxford professor and apologist John Lennox on Artificial Intelligence, how should Christians view this technology, and how to maintain a Christian vision of what it means to be human. Segment 1 – Two Kinds of AI God, AI and the End of History: Understanding the Book of Revelation in an Age of Intelligent Machines Segment 2 – Should We Fear AI? What is Claude Mythos? Segment 3 – AI and Reality Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow My Story by John Lennox

What's happening when narratives, real or not, win over truths? __________ Help us reach our $1 million goal at colsoncenter.org/may.

Ryan Bomberger is an amazing speaker with an amazing story, that is now the subject of a new book and documentary. __________ Join us in praying for our country by visiting joinadf.com/breakpoint.

We are called to not be deceived and to not fear. __________ Join us for our 2026 Rooted Educator Worldview Summit by visiting colsoneducators.org/rooted.

Why the Church's greatest need is formation. __________ Partner with thousands of others in supporting The Colson Center by visiting colsoncenter.org/cornerstone.

A report out of the UN says concerns about climate change were overstated. People who use chatbots are changing their views of morality. Proposed rules for funding colleges could create problems for Christian colleges. And another bizarre ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court on hospitals and transgender care. Recommendations Triggernometry podcast Segment 1 – OVERBLOWN CLIMATE CONCERNS; CHATBOTS INFLUENCING MORALITY Energy News Beat article Washington Post article Rod Dreher commentary Article on Chatbot interaction Segment 2 – PASSING OF BOB WOODSON; CHRISTIAN COLLEGE FUNDING CONCERNS Woodson Center announcement Christianity Today article on college funding Segment 3 – CO SUPREME COURT ORDERS RESTART OF MINOR TRANSGENDER CARE NY Times article on Colorado hospital FOX News article on Texas Children's Hospital

Woodson was a civil rights warrior who didn't buy the dominant narrative about race and oppression. __________ Download the Colson Educators app today on the Apple App Store or Google Play.

What's the point of formation over efficiency, leisure over work, and wisdom over perfection? __________ Manage your money with a team that takes good stewardship to heart. Visit sovereignpw.com.

Dr. Mildred Fay Jefferson laid the groundwork for the pro-life cause in America. __________ Register for our Truth Rising watch party in Knoxville by visiting colsoncenter.org/knoxville.

Like all human beings with eternity in their hearts, Disney adults are creatures of longing. __________ Help us reach our $1 million goal at colsoncenter.org/may.

Graduating, commencing, and a better way. __________ Start Truth Rising: The Study for free today at colsoncenter.org/study.

A new report on the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7th. Connecticut is close to enacting a law placing more restrictions on homeschoolers. Katy Faust of Them Before Us was the victim of a hit piece by the Seattle Times. And John and Maria will talk about the administration's infatuation with IVF. Recommendations The World and Everything in It Segment 1 – The Horrors of October 7; Attempts to Restrict Homeschooling MSN article on October 7 report Telegraph article on Nicholas Kristoff More violence in Nigeria Connecticut Democrats pass bill restricting homeschooling Segment 2 – Seattle Times Doxes Katy Faust; White House Pushes IVF MSN article on Chloe Cole Age of first time mothers hit record high Segment 3 – Questions and Comments A Practical Guide to Culture: Helping the Next Generation Navigate Today's World The Briefing Breakpoint

The fissure in America's ideological Left. __________ Get ahead of the Colson Fellows summer application rush by applying today colsonfellows.org/apply.

How Martin Luther and centuries of Church thinkers inspired the Bill of Rights. __________ Start Truth Rising: The Study for free today at colsoncenter.org/study.

A Tennessee bill and a grass-roots effort bring light to a darkened June. __________ Join us in praying for our country by visiting joinadf.com/breakpoint.

When thinking about things like UFO's, aliens, and UAP's, the best place to start is with the rule and reign of Christ over all things. __________ Join us for our 2026 Rooted Educator Worldview Summit by visiting colsoneducators.org/rooted.

The legacy work of how we face death. __________ Join us in praying for our country by visiting joinadf.com/breakpoint.

We're celebrating mothers this Mother's Day weekend. Another study confirms what most already knew; church is good for your family. And there is growing frustration in the pro-life movement with the Trump administration. Recommendations Them Before Us YouTube Video The Desecration of Man by Carl Trueman Segment 1 – Mother's Day Them Before Us Substack Them Before Us YouTube Video Greater Than Campaign Segment 2 – Church is Good for You; Is AI Alive? X Post Religion Unplugged article 2021 Study Guardian Article on AI Segment 3 – Pro-Life Frustration with the White House WSJ article

The language of the laws of nature and nature's God. __________ For additional resources, or to download and share this commentary, visit breakpoint.org.

It would make many comfortable if the Founders were Deists, but were they? __________ Download the Colson Educators app today on the Apple App Store or Google Play.

Another First Amendment case is on the docket from the increasingly progressive Rocky Mountain state. __________ Manage your money with a team that takes good stewardship to heart. Visit sovereignpw.com.

Though a few statements about Jesus in the Koran align with what we know from the Bible, other parts do not. __________ Register for our Truth Rising watch party in Knoxville by visiting colsoncenter.org/knoxville.

Christians are right to lament moral collapse but should never be reduced to despair. __________ Make a gift by May 8th to receive Dr. Carl Trueman's new book, The Desecration of Man at colsoncenter.org/may.

The alleged shooter at the White House Correspondents' Dinner touts his Christian faith in his manifesto. A new documentary released this week is likely to be a breath of fresh air. Planned Parenthood downplays its involvement in gender transition procedures and is the Catholic Church planning to go silent on sex? Segment 1 – Another Assassination Attempt; God, Creation and the Story of Everything Shooter's Manifesto Generations by Jean Twenge Christopher Lasch research Desecration of Man Offer WSJ article on documentary Documentary trailer Segment 2 – Planned Parenthood Gender Transitions; Pope Downplays Focus on Sexual Activity Lifesite News article Rueter's Article on Pope Segment 3 – Uncomfortable Questions about Abortion House Hearing Testimony SCOTUS NJ Ruling