Hi, this is John Stone Street, President of the Colson Center, and thank you for joining us for this very special bonus episode of the Breakpoint podcast.

Recently at a private event, I was able to sit down with some remarkable leaders.

The topic of our conversation was wide-ranging. It was deep and it was rich.

It had to do with

what can we learn by looking back over the last several decades of the church's involvement

and culture, which was such a unique time in American history, where we were debating

such incredibly important topics having to do with what it means to be human, what it means

to embrace and lose our public

morality, and what is the role of the church in dealing with issues that are often deemed

too political to touch? My conversation partners were Gabe Lyons, Gabe's the founder and the

president of Think, formerly known as Q Ideas, an organization also dedicated to helping Christians

think and engage the culture. Andrew Walker, a professor of theology and ethics at the Southern

Baptist Seminary, and Ryan Anderson, Ryan's the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center

in Washington, D.C. Though each of the panelists come from different corners of the Christian world in America,

we all share a vision that the gospel is true, that Christ is the Lord, and that Christians

are called to engage the cultural moment with courage and with truth.

So I hope you enjoy this special conversation here on a bonus episode of the Breakpoint podcast.

We have a lot of ground to cover. We're going to keep this as free flowing as possible.

But I'm going to start here. We all come from different understandings of the Christian faith within the bounds of orthodoxy.

By the way, this is the 1700th anniversary of the Nicene Creed. We all subscribe to that.

Okay, we can be friends. But let's start with what are the unique theological or denominational

contributions from your religious tradition that you think shape how we should think about culture,

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