Today on Breakpoint, a special bonus podcast. During this year's Colson Center National

Conference, Colson Center President John Stone Street had a chance to sit down with Gene Twangy,

one of the featured speakers at the conference. To talk about America's various generations

and their impact on culture.

Twangy is an American psychologist whose research specializes in generational differences.

We had several wonderful speakers at this year's conference, including Carl Truman, Oz Guinness, Chloe Cole, Frank Turrick, and more.

If you weren't able to join us, here's your chance to hear all of the

recorded sessions from this year's conference with a gift of any amount now

through August 8th get your digital access today by visiting colson Center

org slash July now here's John Stone Street with Gene Twengey

dr. Gene Twangy thanks for being a part of our podcast.

What a terrific presentation you just gave, covered an incredible amount of ground.

And I want to get into a lot of that. We're not going to rehash all that ground because

it would be impossible to do. But you love this stuff. And I'm always fascinated, you know, when someone loves something that I would necessarily love, which is kind of numbers crunching and that sort of stuff.

So I don't know if you're, you know, be up for giving us kind of the personal thing.

How did you get into this looking at generations, doing statistics, and trying to kind of help us understand ourselves better?

I mean, like a lot of things in science, I kind of stumbled into it.

So as an undergrad, I was doing my honors thesis on gender, which I'm still very interested in.

But I saw this big disconnect between the responses I was getting in the early 90s

and what the test manual said they should be from the early

70s. And it was around the time the media was trying to understand Gen X.

You know, like, wait, young people aren't boomers anymore. What are they? We have no idea.

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