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.

Earlier this week, three Americans and one Canadian traveled further from home than anyone else in human history.

At a maximum distance of over 252,000 miles, the Artemis mission broke the record previously set by the doomed Apollo 13 mission in 1970.

Now, prior to a space launch like this, most of the discussion has to do with engineering.

Will we be able to pull this thing off? What kind of precision must be required?

However, once in space, the conversation always seems to shift from human capacity to sheer all.

As to reflect on all that he was experiencing, Artemis astronaut Victor Glover saw, not the vast

emptiness of space, but the wonder of our place in it, and what that must imply.

Prompted for an impromptu Easter sermon, Glover said this, quote, I'm trying to tell you, just trust me, you are special.

And all of this emptiness, this is a whole bunch of nothing, this thing we call the universe, you have this oasis, this beautiful place we get to exist together.

I think as we go into Easter Sunday, thinking about all the cultures all around the world, whether you celebrate it or not, whether you believe in God or not, this is an opportunity for us to remember where we are, who we are, and that we are the same thing, and we got to get through this together. Then later, as the crew was about to leave, the reach of communication with Earth on the far side of the moon, Glover then said this. As we get close to the nearest point

to the moon and the farthest point from Earth, as we continue to unlock the mysteries of the cosmos, I would like to remind you of one of the most important mysteries on Earth, and that's love. Christ said, in response to what was the greatest command, that it was to love God with all that you are. And he also, being a great teacher, said the second is equal to it, that is, to love your

neighbor as you love yourself. was to love God with all that you are. And he also, being a great teacher, said the second is equal to

it, that is to love your neighbor as you love yourself. Now, this is, of course, not the first time.

A portion of the gospel has been proclaimed from space. Back on Christmas Eve in 1968,

the crew of Apollo 8, the first to circle the moon, famously said to the world, for all the people back on

Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message we would like to send to you. In the beginning,

God created the heaven and earth. In other words, despite the snarky statement from the first man in

space, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, that he had not seen God up there, the precedent is now

pretty much established. Whenever elite scientists, space travelers are given that view, the view that

so few get to see, they tend to point to reveal truth to God and how special his image bearers

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