Hi, I'm John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center. We are now accepting applications for the

2025-26 cohort of the Colson Fellows program. We hear all the time from breakpoint listeners who are

grateful for how the daily commentaries translate the culture for them, take a story, an issue being discussed in our culture,

and think it through from a Christian worldview. And if you're interested in how you can go

deeper in your Christian worldview, how you can get a sense of your calling in this cultural

moment, putting into practice the wisdom and skills cultivated within a Christian worldview to serve the Lord,

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It's a nine-month program combines theological, spiritual, and worldview formation through a carefully curated selection of readings,

daily devotions, live webinars, monthly meetings with like-minded peers, and more.

With both in-person and fully online offerings, you can choose the format that works best with

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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.

According to sociologist Lyman Stone in an article that was published at the Institute for Family Studies, sexlessness skyrocketed between the late 2010s and the early 2020s, roughly doubling for young men and increasing by 50% for young women.

According to this data that was gleaned from the National Survey of Family Growth, there's been an unprecedented

rise in celibacy, especially among those in the 22 to 34 age bracket, that period of life in which

historically most people have gotten married. About a third of male and female respondents reported

that they'd not been intimate with anyone in the past three months, with about 24% of men and 13% of

women reporting that it had been at least a year. Also, among the respondents, about 10% of the men

and 7% of the women said that they were virgins. All of these numbers are up significantly

from 2013. Now, of course, on one hand, the decline of hookup culture is clearly a good thing.

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