Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

In 1976, Carl F.H. Henry published God, Revelation and Authority, one of the most

significant works of theology in the 20th century. Five years later, Gordon Clark released a Christian

view of men and things. And in the same

tradition, David Noble's magisterial Understanding the Times covered 10 areas to which a worldview

speaks, from theology and philosophy to economics, ethics, sociology, and history. And then all on his

own, the late Christian philosopher Ron Nash in about 30 books

covered almost every other conceivable topic from a Christian worldview.

Now what's missing in this long line of Christian worldview books is one that would have

been especially helpful last week when the Pentagon released a slew of documents,

some of which were formally classified.

But the Christian view of UFOs, aliens, an unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP, that one remains to be written.

NPR described this move by the Trump administration this way, quote, in all, the Pentagon

released more than 160 records, citing President Trump's call for unprecedented

transparency and giving the public access to federal and military records related to

unexplained encounters with strange phenomena, end quote.

The release files date back as far as the 1940s and included reports of the unexplained from military sources,

government officials, even the crew of Apollo 11. So far, the responses range from a buzz

by enthusiasts to a sense by others of just another letdown by a government that overpromised,

but in the end, delivered nothing but a nothing burger.

Also, in a strange pre-released twist, a group of Pentecostal pastors claimed to have been briefed

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