You're listening to Breakpoint this week.

Today we're going to talk about some of the top stories of 2021, looking back at how the culture changed this year.

And we're going to look ahead to 2022 as well.

We're so thankful you're with us.

Thanks for being here.

Well, welcome to Breakpoint this week from the Colson Center for Christian Worldview.

I'm Maria Bear alongside John Stone Street, our president.

This is our last show of 2021.

We did it, guys. It's over. It's all over.

Is that it? We're going to hang up our cleats after this season.

That's what he made it sound like.

Now, before we get into it, before we get into it, because we, we're going to do

kind of a year in review.

We're going to look at some of the notable deaths from the year, some of the notable inventions,

some of the major incidents in America and abroad.

We have a lot to talk about.

But before we get into all of it, John, Stone Street, what's one cool thing you did this year? Like a happy memory

or a super cool thing you did or learned how to do it? You don't want to give me a warning about this?

You're just going to throw this on me so that I have to actually come up. This was intentional.

This was intentional? I'll tell you a cool thing I did this year. I started to learn how to play the violin. And, you know, people always tell you

you can't learn things when you get older, but... I did not. So you did not do that. Good. I started to,

I can play twinkle, twinkle, little star. I think it's cool that I did not. Debatable. Listen, I can

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