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.

Well, just a few decades ago, it was widely assumed within scholarly circles that Christianity is intellectually indefensible.

At best, it's a fairy tale. At worst, it was responsible for nearly every bad thing that occurred in the history of Western civilization.

New atheists like Richard Dawkins and Chris Hitchens confidently proclaimed that God was a delusion and that religion poisoned everything.

The thought that Christianity could contribute anything true or especially good for humanity wasn't just denied, it was basically mocked. Well, things

have changed. In the last few years, many people have deconstructed the naive view of the faith

that they'd been brought up to disbelief. For some, it was the obvious failure of secularism

to live up to the promises made on its behalf, especially in the context of uber-woke progressivism and radical Islam.

For others, it was realizing that biblical claims keep coming up true.

Most notably, historian Tom Holland has, at least in scholarly circles, done more than maybe

anyone to restore the reputation of Christianity as a historical force for the good of the world,

and that's helped the confidence of Christians at the same time. Perhaps the best recent example

of what might be called a renewed proper confidence in Christianity was Apologist Wesley Huff's

three-hour conversation with Joe Rogan recently. Not only did Huff have potentially tens of millions of listeners

listening in, but also a host that doesn't suffer fools lightly. And if you listen, of course,

bearing in mind that Rogan's often crass language is not for kids, you'll hear from Huff a strong,

clear, and compelling defense of Christianity, including a reliability of the Bible,

particularly of the biblical text. It's clear that Huff knows his apologetic stuff, and he delivered

it with clarity and with enthusiasm. But it's important to note that even though the reaction

to his three-hour presentation was just what a Christian could hope for, Huff didn't come up with

some brand new way of explaining Christianity. The same information he shared is widely available

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