You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview.

Today we're going to talk about the school shooting in Minneapolis. We're also going to talk about the largest planned parenthood in America closing and what that means for the pro-life cause.

We have a lot to get to this week. We're so glad you're here. Stick around.

Welcome to Breakpoint this week. We're so glad you're here. Stick around. Welcome to Breakpoint this week.

From the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone Street,

president of the Colson Center.

John, most of our listeners will be familiar with the news this week about a shooting at a Catholic

school in Minnesota.

How have you been working through this news? Well, it's awful. It's, uh, it's terrible. It's terrible because whenever children

die, it tells us that the world shouldn't be this way. And yet it is again. I mean, we kind of

started this summer with a

children dying from a natural disaster. Here we end the summer with children dying from an act

of what's called moral evil when someone actually perpetrates that against someone else.

This is a commonality of a young man who has mental illness. And we've talked in the past about

young men in particular being led to either deaths of despair or acts of desperation like this.

We know this guy was just in a really, really bad place. But there's also so much,

so many questions I have about the coverage of this, right? I mean, the Nashville shooting

happened, and we didn't know anything about that. The manifesto was immediately available,

and it was buried and it was hidden, and we didn't know for so long.

We knew an incredible amount about this young man almost immediately. And I don't think it was

because of authorities and I don't think it was because of the news coverage.

It was because a whole bunch of people jumped on social media,

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