In a culture that's facing a crisis of mental illness and suicide, Christians, of all people,

should be able to point people to hope, but you have to learn how to bring Christ's hope to those

who are around you and are suffering. In the free online course, Hope Always, Dr. Matthew Sleath,

equips Christians to understand this current epidemic of mental illness and suicide and learn what

the scripture says to those who are suffering and to those helping those who are suffering.

Especially if you're a parent, a pastor, a teacher, a friend working with the next generation,

hope always will help you break the silence and offer real hope to those who need it most.

Sign up today at colsoneducators.org. That's

colson educators.org. What can a breakpoint, daily look at an ever-changing culture through

the lens of unchanging truth for the Colson Center on John Stone Street. In November of 2022, Anderson Lee Aldrich killed five people and injured 25 others in a shooting at Club Q, an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs.

Aldrich identified as non-binary, used they-them pronouns, had multiple violent encounters with law enforcement, threatened to kill Christians,

and dabbled in the gay lifestyle. However, in a matter of hours after the shooting, the New York Times,

the Washington Post, and multiple other news outlets and commentators implicated, either directly or indirectly,

focus on the family, accusing them of creating a culture that

led to this kind of violence. And a few weeks later, the campus of the ministry was vandalized,

with these words, quote, their blood is on your hands. The false accusation was based on the

notion of stochastic violence, the idea that somehow saying the wrong thing about a group or a behavior can

create an environment that can lead to violence. Similarly, political conservatives were also accused

of stochastic violence when a homeless mentally ill man attacked Nancy Pelosi's husband with a hammer.

But so far, no one's been accused of stochastic violence after Muhammad

Sabri Solomon, an Egyptian-born man living in Colorado Springs illegally, threw Molotov cocktails

into a group of peaceful pro-Israel demonstrators while yelling, quote, free Palestine. At least 12 people

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