Crises in South Korea and Minneapolis; the Supreme Court Hears the Transgender Athlete Case and the Worldwide Persecution of Christians is Getting Worse.
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
John talks about his trip to South Korea where he visited a pastor who is in prison over his faith. John and Maria also discuss the ongoing protests in Minneapolis as well as the Supreme Court hearing on state bans on transgender athletes.
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Segment 1 – Crises South Korea and Minneapolis
Segment 2 – Supreme Court Hears Transgender Athletes Case
Segment 3 – Headlines
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:07.8 | Today we're going to talk about religious persecution, including John's trip to South Korea and what he learned from Christians there. |
| 0:14.8 | We're also going to talk about the continuing chaos in Minnesota over protests and ice raids. |
| 0:20.6 | We've a lot to get to you this week. We're so glad |
| 0:22.4 | you're with us. Please stick around. Welcome to Breakpoint this week. From the Coulson Center for |
| 0:29.0 | Christian Worldview, I'm Maria Bear, alongside John Stone Street, president of the Coulson Center, |
| 0:34.3 | back on American soil. John, I've always wanted to see the Northern Lights, |
| 0:38.4 | and I was wondering if maybe we could take this show on the road and head to Greenland to record |
| 0:44.2 | next week's episode. We might not need our passport by then. What do you think? Oh, man. So we spent |
| 0:51.4 | last week, my daughter and I traveling to South Korea to visit Colson Fellows cohort there as well as a couple churches. |
| 1:00.3 | And here we are this week recording on Wednesday. |
| 1:04.9 | And it feels like there are certain cultural moments where it feels like there's a whole lot that could happen in the next 72 hours, which could make our, you know, program here sounds completely tone deaf when it airs on Friday. |
| 1:18.2 | Like, how could you not talk about this? And we got a lot of questions this week about Minneapolis, |
| 1:23.7 | which we'll talk about Greenland and, you know, Trump's claim, although I guess |
| 1:30.5 | at Davos this week, he walked back the, the insinuation that he was willing to use the military, |
| 1:36.9 | which is, you know, a good thing to walk back. But, yeah, an awful lot is going on right now. |
| 1:44.8 | So I'm really worried here as we've got a board meeting this week. |
| 1:50.1 | And so I'm not able to record later in the week. |
| 1:53.1 | A whole lot could happen between now and airtime. |
| 1:56.9 | I'm optimistic. |
| 1:58.0 | I've always wanted to go up there. |
| 1:59.7 | Well, John, before we talk about Minneapolis and what's going on there, some of the major cultural issues of the week, tell us a little bit about your trip. South Korea is not a place that people travel to every day. So you said you were visiting some Colson Fellows and a couple churches there. What kind of stuff did you see? |
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