Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast and our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center.

I'm Shane Morris, host of the Upstream podcast and one of the writers here at Breakpoint.

I'm joined today by John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center and the voice of Breakpoint.

Today we're answering your questions.

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And we'd love to talk about it here on the program. John, when you do what you do for work, I'm sure there are some questions you get that are

repeat questions. They happen more than once. I'm curious if you get, as you move into this sort of,

as I move into this sort of unscripted and unfiltered Q&A environment, I did one of these

up in Michigan this past month. What's one question that you've heard many times, but you

kind of dread to answer? Oh, man. I mean, that's a good question. I think it changes. It's always the existential questions.

It's always the questions where you know either there's a whole story behind it.

And I don't dread it because it's the way questions come.

It's where the authentic questions really come at you that way.

So that's actually okay.

It means you're hitting a nerve.

But it's just hard because it's the questions that make you, that are basically where someone's

asking you to help them feel better. So it has to do with the problem of evil. It has to do with

that. Those are the hardest ones. The ones that I dread are the statements in the form, the sermons in the form of

questions. It's not a topic. It's the guy or the woman who has a point to make and they don't

respect or recognize everybody else in the room. So I usually start by going, you know,

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