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

Today we're going to be talking about the recent mass shootings in Atlanta and Colorado and how we can respond as Christians.

We're also going to talk about the normalization of cohabitating among Christian couples, particularly young Christians, and the challenges that

poses for pastors.

We're excited for our conversation today.

Thanks for joining us.

And for more on these stories and other great content, you can head over to breakpoint.org.

Welcome to Breakpoint this week. On behalf of the Colson Center, I'm Maria Bear, alongside

John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. John, I don't know

if you know this, but some of our listeners on the podcast got a behind-the-scenes look at how the sausage gets made last week for a minute.

You know, I heard about it. We got so many thousands and thousands of complaints just saying,

gosh, what a goofball organization you guys are.

Yeah, right. They probably loved it. So we had just like this weird editing fluke only on Friday.

And if you were listening, if you listened to the show on your podcast app on Friday, you got to hear the unedited version.

So I know, John, it seems like we're very cool and calm and collected and super quick-witted and brilliant constantly on this show.

But it's actually much more awkward and embarrassing than

that. So you got to hear if you listen to the show on Friday, you got to hear like that sometimes,

you know, we trail off and forget what we're saying. Or sometimes we have to go tell our contractor

to stop pounding on thick two by fours in our new kitchen downstairs so that we can

record a podcast yeah it's a real thing it happens uh it's you know kind of behind the scenes look so yeah

i also have to do another kind of uh apology because from this week and it's well it's not from

this it's it's it's from our breakpoint commentaries.

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