This is Breakpoint this week, a weekly briefing on faith, culture, worldview, and mission with

John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center for Christian Worldview.

Welcome to Breakpoint this week. I'm Shane Morris, here with John Stone Street to talk about the

stories of the week from a Christian worldview perspective. And John, we've talked a lot about

politics lately, especially the Supreme Court. But I think this week it's time to turn our

attention a little bit more to cultural issues, really important stories and developments that,

if anything, are, I think, upstream from politics. Yeah, well, listen, I think the idea of

things being upstream from politics and that the court is politics, I mean, all these, you know, require pretty careful definitions.

The Supreme Court is definitely very much a part of American culture.

It creates artifacts like, you know, laws, precedent, so on.

It certainly creates or at least embeds ideas into culture through its decision.

So it's not always accurate to call these things separate from culture.

But there's been a lot of interesting things happen on the cultural side of things, at least over the last couple, I guess week or so.

I mean, we had, first of all, the letter that we talked about during last week's program that was published in Harper's, mainly center, center-left, intellectuals, some big names

from Malcolm Gladwell to Sam and Rushdie to David Brooks, J.K. Rowling. I was going to say

to Harry Potter, but to J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter signed it as well.

Yeah, he actually definitively did not.

I think he has separated himself from his creator if we're talking about Daniel

Radcliffe and J.K. Rowling.

Oh, no, no.

Daniel Radcliffe is not Harry Potter.

Don't do that to me.

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