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

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

Last year, Colson Fellow Yvonne Rivera Newberry wrote an opinion piece for The Daily Wire.

He was entitled, I'm a registered nurse, and I'm sounding the alarm on gender ideology deception in medicine.

In the article, she described the lunacy that had captivated the medical field, quote,

emboldened voices scream about the injustice of appropriation when it comes to racial and ethnic groups,

but where's the outcry in defense of the appropriation of women,

as if dresses and makeup of the sum of the female experience,

to undermine women, those who gave birth to every group, every nation, indeed the world,

through imitation, is a great injustice.

Yvonne ended her article by stating this, quote,

I will not play the pronoun game or any gender neutralizing tactic to mock a perfect design.

I will not apologize for using the word woman. I am a woman, end quote. Well, less than 48 hours after the piece was published, Rivera

Newberry was fired. At the time, she was studying worldview and culture in the Colson Fellows Program. Founded

by Chuck Colson, the Colson Fellows Program equips believers

to live courageously from a biblical foundation of truth and calling. When she received a request

to meet with the Human Resources Department at her place of employment, Yvonne knew what was coming

next. The many medical professionals had commended her column privately and supported her

stand for truth. Her employer did not. So Yvonne reached out to her Colson Fellows cohort for

prayer and support. Here's what she wrote, quote, I needed prayer to help me stand firm and have

wherewithal and discernment in the meaning. The prayers carried me and grounded me. Nothing about getting

fired was pleasant. My solace was knowing that I finally spoke truth in a very public way,

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